Craig Leonard: Your LinkedIn Profile Is Not Your Resume
LinkedIn strategist Craig Leonard on how the interest-based algorithm decides who sees you, why most profiles read like resumes, and where AI helps and where it wrecks the job.
Tag: networking
Real networking is a long game of giving before asking. These articles cover building professional relationships that lead somewhere, from conferences and referrals to the online connections that turn into work.
For Executives & ProfessionalsAnthony Markey: Everybody Is Worth a Coffee
Insurance broker and I Know A Guy Iowa host Anthony Markey returns to explain why everybody is worth a coffee, and why the person you let talk is the one who refers you.
Incident ResponseThe Ransomware Years: When Laptops Became Bricks
Somebody opened a link, and their machine was a brick. Literally unrecoverable. Across a fleet of 1,500 desktops and laptops we lost machines to ransomware over and over, and never lost the network, because the network was designed by people…
Incident ResponseThe Infection That Kept Coming Back
Clean machine A. While you are cleaning machine B, machine C reinfects A. We played whack-a-mole against a network worm that never got tired, and lost, until we stopped treating machines and started treating the network.
CybersecurityDefense in Layers: Why One Scanner Is Zero Scanners
The fake UPS email arrived five minutes after my real eBay order, pixel-perfect, and I clicked it. Then the screen turned red: infection stopped, infection stopped, infection stopped. That is what layers are for, because the one filter that always…
IntrovertThe System Crashed on a Friday Night. I Had Nobody to Call.
A complete failure, millions on the line by Monday morning, every vendor number unanswered. Twenty years in the industry and not one person I could call.
LeadershipWhy I Love Eliances: The Networking Group That Actually Works
Most networking groups are stale coffee and a parade of elevator pitches, everyone selling, nobody listening, a wasted morning in a hotel conference room. Eliances is the rare exception, and after nine months I still look forward to Tuesdays because…
Authority BuildingNetworking Unleashed: Building Profitable Connections.
Richard Lowe (The Writing King) joins Michael A. Forman on Networking Unleashed: Building Profitable Connections for a conversation built around one
AI and WritingAI, Digital Transformation, and the Future of Creative Work | Are We Here Yet?
Richard Lowe (The Writing King) appears as a guest on Interchain Live, cross-posted to the Are We Here Yet? podcast and the Innova802 network, for a long
AI and WritingBeyond the Manuscript: Publishing, Marketing & the Business of a Book | Consulting Spotlight
Richard Lowe (The Writing King) joins Michael Bernzweig on the Consulting Spotlight, part of the Software Oasis Podcast Network, for a conversation aimed
Authority BuildingA Book Instead of a Degree: How Tech & Cyber Leaders Break Into the C-Suite | Tequila and Tech Talk, Feb 2025
Tequila and Tech Talk is a virtual networking symposium for cybersecurity and technology leaders, co-hosted by Richard Lowe (The Writing King) and Natan
Book MarketingChoose Your Clients, Promote Like Hell: The Business Side of a Writing Career
Richard Lowe, The Writing King, joined RJ Stewart on NetBuilder's World for a conversation aimed at freelancers and small-business owners. Less about how