Archive for the ‘LinkedIn Connections’ Category
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
I've finally gotten around to playing with sending messages to my first degree contacts. The way I'm doing it now is 50 at a time, through LinkedIn's mail server.
Simply mouse over the Inbox menu option, then click Compose. To the right of the To box you'll see a little non-descript ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, Using LinkedIn | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
What a strong title! It is from Gizmodo: Is LinkedIn the Creepiest Social Network?
The author is wondering where the data comes from for People You May Know and People Also Viewed.
Worth a read...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn for Job Seekers, LinkedIn Profiles, Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
Friday, January 11th, 2013
I don't go by my first name, I go by my middle name. If you call me by my first name I know you got my name from some government list or something like that. You immediately disqualify yourself from being legit if you don't call me Jason.
Could be the ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn Introductions, LinkedIn Profiles, LinkedIn Recommendations | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
I want you to be my evangelist.
And, you should want others to be your evangelist. If you don't agree, we have a problem :)
Anyway, let me explain the difference between Like, Share and Comments on statuses. This might impact how you ask others to share your stuff.
Check out this status ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, social networking, Using LinkedIn | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
Here's a question I recently got from a reader. His question is in bold, my response is not.
>> Is it appropriate to make connections with 2nd degree people on the lists of your connections as long as you have a group in common or they have a contact email address ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn Introductions, Using LinkedIn | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Friday I showed you how to backup your LinkedIn Profile, which is something you might want to do once a year.
Here's something you might want to do as regularly as once a month: backup your first degree Contacts. Maybe once a month is too often... but do this at least ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn Maintenance, Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
Monday, December 3rd, 2012
Friday I talked about backing up your Profile to a pdf... a very important thing to do. You should also backup your Contacts. In this post I want to share what LinkedIn is sending you when they export your Contacts to a CSV. I think this is mostly a post ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2012
The QvQ debate (quality vs. quantity) is tiring. I don't care what you choose. And I'm not going to try to change your thinking.
Needed to get that out of the way so this doesn't become a post about which is better.
I just wanted to share ONE perspective from an inbound ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, social networking, Using LinkedIn | 4 Comments »
Thursday, September 27th, 2012
Check out this Profile, which looks fake to me:
When I get the email from LinkedIn, I can "accept the invitation."
If I want to check out the person's page, I can "Accept invitation."
But what if I don't want to?
I would LOVE a link to IGNORE from the email AND from the ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, Using LinkedIn | 7 Comments »
Monday, June 25th, 2012
I got this email from a friend and JibberJobber user:
As you know, I am looking for work. Each time I find a job ad, I look for a LinkedIn connection to find out if the job is active or who is the hiring HR or manager is. The only response ...
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