A had a wonderful conversation with Shannon Russo yesterday of Kinetix.  Kinetix is a talent acquisition and management company.  As we met at New Media Atlanta much our conversation was about social media used in the world of staffing.

Shannon has some deep knowledge about the industry and particularly the use of LinkedIn.  I do not use LinkedIn often.  Mostly responding to requests that hit my in box.  One of the tidbits Shannon told me is that recommendations matter on LinkedIn.  My reply was a perplexed "really?"

I had never given it much thought.  Asking people for recommendations seemed a little cheesy to me (I think I may have one from a person that called me out on a social network for having none so I asked to him to recommend me).

What do you think?  Do recommendations matter on LinkedIn? 

If your answer is yes I could use some love.