5 Ways to Use LinkedIn like a Nerd Would

LinkedIn is a popular social network of over 35,000,000+ experienced professionals from around the world. It is a social media tool that allows individuals and businesses a ways to find and collaborate with other qualified professionals. LinkedIn allows users to build a profile that summarizes their experience and expertise, and then share it with other users. Simply put, Linked in is a very powerful tool to inform the world about your own brand of Nerdness.

There are many ways that companies can use LinkedIn to help their cause. Several Entrepreneurs like Guy Kawasaki and Chris Pirillo have written several articles about the benefits and ways to use LinkedIn. The site even features a blog dedicated to the success stories of its users on how they made it work for them. So, we decided to come up with our own list of reasons individuals and companies should use and embrace the powerful online networking tool. Here are 5 ways to use LinkedIn like a nerd would:

1. To Brand Yourself or Your Business. Having a strong brand goes a long way, but it takes a lot to build up a brand and get it strong. A company has to develop credibility in its field and appear to have a strong presence. Having a strong network helps promote your brand. LinkedIn only reinforces the branding you’re doing elsewhere and helps increase your visibility.

2. Market Analysis and Research. Doing research is common for nerds. Every company and individual would benefit from doing more nerd-like research. And LinkedIn is a network that provides a plethora of information to research. It is a great way to analyze and benmark the markert. It is a great way to get to know a company or client and gauge its health. Not to mention, it is a great way to see what competitors are doing. On top of getting valid factual information, you also get other people's opinions through answers and recommendations. Use the vast amounts of information LinkedIn provides to your benefit.

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8 Nerd-Recommended Do-It-Yourself SEO Tips

With the economy on a roller coaster ride as of late, small businesses are looking for things to cut out of the budget. Unfortunately for some of us nerds that make a living on the web, one of the areas getting trimmed from the budget is website optimization.

It takes a great deal of time and patience to see the true benefits and ROI from search engine optimization efforts. And when money is tight, time and patience tend to be in short supply. As a result, website tweaking and perfecting takes a back seat.

Optimizing a website for search engines is in a companies best interest, even without a budget to hire a professional to do it properly. Tough times require slashing budgets and cutting corners, but there are things that companies and individuals can do to stay competitive without spending much money or time at all.

To help companies and individuals on a tight budget, here is a list of 8 nerd-recommended do-it-yourself SEO tips that will help ensure your website competes in seach rankings even when you are on a budget. We haven't reinvented the SEO wheel here with any of these tips, but we have made them fairly basic and easy to understand, and they are all things people can do on their own.

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what is gangplank? and how do we collaborate?

As a result of Startup Weekend Phoenix, the nerds at Brice Cheddarn have been even more motivated than usual. And a lot of that has to do with meeting a lot of cool people with goals and skills like ours. For awhile, we were starting to think the PHX tech market was as dry as the weather. In the two years of our existence as a legal entity in this state, we had only run across a handful of like minded web nerds that we could collaborate with. The search for our fellow developers and entrepreneurs produced little results. Until Startup Weekend, that is.

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welcome to the world of brice cheddarn

the importance of a strong and effective online presence should never be underestimated, and nerds understand this fact better than anyone.  nerds understand the web.   they understand it, embrace it, and passionately pursue to further the virtual web any chance they get. and can do the same for the web presence of any person, company or idea. 

at brice cheddarn, we take pride in giving individuals and businesses the chance to look their best on the web.  our team is dedicated to providing quality service and delivering quality results.  the portfolio of webwork compiled over the years is impressive.   whether it be through our highly-regarded web consulting services, or through our award-winning web development, or our optimization, we have provided our clients the satisfaction they need. 

while the nerds at brice cheddarn code in anything from PHP/MySQL to old school ASP to AJAX/DHTML/CSS, we are pioneers in the world of coldfusion web development.  yes, that's right, i said coldfusion.  let it be known to all you PHPers and .NETers, there are still some of us CFers left in the webosphere and we are here to stay.  ill take my coldfusion over that amsterdam code any day of the week.