Don’t ask me how I even discovered this, but Barack Obama has a LinkedIn profile. It looks legit(ish?), but for some reason it just seems absurd for this man to have a LinkedIn profile; as if to give the impression that anyone can connect with him or hire him for a consulting gig. Listed under “Experience” it says simply “President, United States of America.” Well crud, how the heck am I supposed to compete with that? :-)

The best part:

Gotta say, I use LinkedIn a lot, and using it to discover how many degrees of separation there are between me and Kevin Bacon never even occurred to me. (My number is three, whether I use Linked In or not.) It’s cracking me up this morning.

Since we’re on the topic: If you’d like to connect to me on Linked In, please do. I’d be grateful if you’d add a note with your connection request saying how we know (or why we should know) each other. I’ve taught thousands of students over the years, and I admit I’m not great at remembering every name/face.