I met her on a zoom network session. In the chat, we agreed we had more to discuss. Our connecting on LinkedIn is TBD during a zoom chat, as she acknowledged from reading my About section of my profile. Good start.

A friend’s friend approached me to connect. The first friend’s friends are mine as well, knowing our relationship. But as you know I always vet the other person via zoom chat before I connect on LinkedIn.

In both cases above we set a day and time to zoom. Then I set it up in my calendar to invite the other person. I needed their email address to send the zoom credentials.

Dead stop.

Neither had their email address in their Contact Info section.

So pedantically, I messaged them on LinkedIn, in hopes they check it frequently (because to many do not!) and ask them for their email address, suggested they add it to their Contact Info, and hear them thank me for pointing out their oversight.

Please check your LinkedIn Contact Info section now and be sure your phone number, email address, website URLs, and some piece of address to show where you are working from all appear there.

Please make it easy to get a hold of you. Why is this not obvious I wonder, a matter of course to allow anyone to contact in any communication method we use today? And if I sound like a broken record broken record broken record, it’s because this still comes up as an added step to reach others, all too frequently.