{"id":1744,"date":"2007-10-09T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2025-04-14T07:53:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:53:46","slug":"hitting-four-hundred-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"Hitting four hundred."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wazaroff\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 0 5px ;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azaroff.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/LinkedIn-713821.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"imgbord\" alt=\"LinkedIn\" \/><\/a><br \/>Anyone who knows me knows that I&#8217;m a total <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wazaroff\/\" title=\"LinkedIn\">LinkedIn<\/a> nut. Between LinkedIn and Facebook, I&#8217;m at peace with most of my social media needs (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wazaroff\" title=\"Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> helps a little too, but I <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">could<\/span> live without it).<\/p>\n<p>I think LinkedIn is the best possible representation of my professional life: my experience, my connections, my reputation, my accomplishments. It&#8217;s truly putting my best foot forward when I meet someone I want to know better professionally. It also helps me keep my connections open for a lot longer, whereas previously they would have fossilized after a few months.<\/p>\n<p>Just now, Shawn Ward, co-founder of the social personal finance service Geezeo become my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/shawnward\/\" title=\"Shawn Ward\">four hundredth connection<\/a>. A fun milestone.<\/p>\n<p>@<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sharistorm\/\" title=\"Shari\">Shari<\/a>: 168 is nice too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me knows that I&#8217;m a total LinkedIn nut. Between LinkedIn and Facebook, I&#8217;m at peace with most of my social media needs (Twitter helps a little too, but I could live without it). I think LinkedIn is the best possible representation of my professional life: my experience, my connections, my reputation, my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,61,17],"tags":[170,125,209,183],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azaroff","category-social-media","category-web-2-0","tag-azaroff","tag-linkedin","tag-social-media","tag-web-2-0"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37qUH-s8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16603,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/16603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}