{"id":173,"date":"2007-07-31T20:47:51","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T00:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2007-07-31T20:47:51","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T00:47:51","slug":"linkedin-and-operations-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/31\/linkedin-and-operations-research\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn and Operations Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don Kleinmuntz of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strata-decision.com\/\">Strata Decision Technology<\/a> and USC has made a concerted effort to get people in operations research to join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\">LinkedIn<\/a>.  Since Don was a founding co-editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/da.pubs.informs.org\"><em>Decision Analysis<\/em><\/a> and has been Treasurer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informs.org\">INFORMS<\/a> among many other jobs, he has an extensive contact list, and a number of us have joined.  I was a latecomer, just joining today.  Don so far has found it interesting, but he is holding back a decision on its importance.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised how many people were on it.  There are dozens of &#8220;Trick&#8221;s alone, which is unusual.  It definitely has cornered the market on 30-something IT people.   But a search on &#8220;operations research&#8221; tagged 177 people, so it seems there are some of our type there (or just Don&#8217;s buddies!).<\/p>\n<p>If you are on it, send me (Mike Trick) an invite and we can get our our little social network going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Kleinmuntz of Strata Decision Technology and USC has made a concerted effort to get people in operations research to join LinkedIn. Since Don was a founding co-editor of Decision Analysis and has been Treasurer for INFORMS among many other jobs, he has an extensive contact list, and a number of us have joined. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/31\/linkedin-and-operations-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LinkedIn and Operations Research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}