This is interesting! It appears that a US Presidential Candidate is using Linkedin Answers to ask a question about helping small businesses and entrepreneurs. Check out LinkedIn.
My friend Michelle Price just told me that she posted the following answer to Barack’s question when she was on LinkedIn today.
Barack Obama’s LinkedIn question was:
“How can the next president better help small business and entrepreneurs thrive?”
Michelle Price’s Answer:
“Have someone on your staff go through bootstrapping and starting-up a small business and experience the current SBA and tax code system firsthand (or vicariously?) yourself…;-) You couldn’t let on that you are behind it or it would influence the outcome I’m sure (maybe not though..it’s a jungle out there). I think that would be the best lesson on what needs to happen from a continuous improvement (or maybe just blow it all up) perspective.”
Michelle found this through Vincent Wright, Chief Encouragement Officer, MyLinkedinPowerForum.com. He has 6,400 friends. Hey, I don’t have anywhere near that many friends (that I know of) but, the great think about having a good friend like Michelle P is… she fills me in on interesting things that are going on like Barack and LinkedIn. I would have probably missed it and maybe you would have too. Quite frankly I’m glad Barack is asking entrepreneurs what we want.
As a thriving weekend entrepreneur I stay pretty busy. This week I started pre-producing for a TV show and I leave tomorrow for the second stop of a 10 city speaking tour for my book “Weekend Entrepreneur 101 Great Ways to Earn Extra Income.” With so much going on it occurred to me that Michelle P would be the perfect team player to join forces with me as a writer for my blog. She has given me so many good ideas that I often slip and ask her, “What are ‘we’ going to write about today?” Fortunately, when I ran this idea by the powers that be at entrepreneur.com they liked it (thanks Francine). So Michelle Price is officially on board and boy, does she have lots to say.
I hope you’ll keep coming back for more exciting water cooler conversation, inspiration and moneymaking tips. As well as to see what Michelle P and I am up to.
To see Senator Barack Obama’s Linkedin profile, visit:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/barackobama
Show us some love and leave a comment if you can. It’s nice to know that somebody (besides mom and dad) checked us out today.
Cheers,
Michelle A
4 Responses to “Barack Obama, LinkedIn, & My Friend”
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September 16th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Hello you two brilliant women!
I love this blog because I learn so much everytime I visit and I appreciate knowing that someone cares about women biz owners (like me!)
I hope Mr Obama accepts the challenge posed by Ms Price.
Thank you so much!!
September 18th, 2007 at 8:06 am
[…] Michelle is now co-blogging with Michelle Anton at the Weekend Entrepreneur blog and will be expanding the conversation to include information product creators. You’ll want to visit today and often to get to know her fabulous point of view. Here is a link to make it easy: http://weekend.entrepreneur.com/2007/09/12/barack-obama-linkedin-my-friend/. […]
October 8th, 2007 at 10:10 am
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I really like what you have posted there. Thats was really somethig to read about. Cheers!!!
November 23rd, 2007 at 4:33 pm
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