Dear and esteemed fellow monks.

I feel the F******k conversation has got a bit heated. But this should not stop us discussing what ways there are of raising Perl's profile. And clearly anything that is free is easier to justify.

I guess we all have a fair amount invested in this language Larry and friends came up with. I would like to keep this investment maintained. In fact I would like people to pay me more next year to use it than this year.

The F******k conversation provoked opposing reactions. It is free. Apparently.

On the other hand, people seem generally hapier with http://www.linkedin.com/ and http://twitter.com/. In which case I'd like (that's 'like' without a button attached) to propose that we pilot something with LinkedIn. If we don't like it we can always take it down.

Here is some code I found on a website, which points to an IT article on Brazil. If you paste it into an HTML editor it should show you a LinkedIn button.

Appropriately modified, it could point to any PM node.

Enjoy.

Regards

Steve 

<div class="linkedin_share_container" style="float:right;margin:0px 0p
+x 10px 10px">
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=http%3
+A%2F%2Fitdecs.com%2F2011%2F07%2Fbrazil-should-seek-mobile-nous-overse
+as%2F&amp;title=Brazil+should+seek+mobile+nous+overseas&amp;summary=C
+ould+Brazilian+organizations+be+doing+more+to+learn+from+what+centers
++of+excellence+in+mobile+technology+overseas+are+doing%3F%C2%A0Knowle
+dge+management+and+social+innovation+specialist%C2%A0Jos%C3%A9+Luiz+B
+arbosa%C2%A0discusses+the+topic+in+the+second+part+of+a+two-part+gues
+t+article+for%C2%A0IT+Decisions.%0A%0A%0ASweden+has+done+business+in+
+Brazil+for+more+than+a+century+and+nowadays+there+are+approximately+2
+00+%5B...%5D&amp;source=IT+Decisions"
                onclick="return popupLinkedInShare(this.href,'console'
+,400,570)" class="linkedin_share_button"><img src="http://itdecs.com/
+wp-content/plugins/linkedin-share-button/buttons/01.png"
                    alt="" />
</a>
</div>

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