Archive for the ‘LinkedIn Maintenance’ Category

LinkedIn account get hacked? Here’s your answer…

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Someone I met in Minneapolis last month emailed to ask what to do if your LinkedIn account gets hacked... I didn't know but he reported back. He shared this part of the email he got from customer support: Option 2: Regain access to the account by signing the following affidavit of ...

Pruning (or deleting) LinkedIn Connections

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Yesterday I alluded to the danger of pruning LinkedIn Connections. I could be wrong and outdated, but the way it used to work is this: You and I are connected. You decided to disconnect from me. YOU COULD NEVER, EVER RECONNECT WITH ME AGAIN. Crazy, huh? If you are thinking about cleaning up your network, I ...

LinkedIn Profile Update: Summary + Newsletter

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Here's a quick change I just made on my Profile. I switched from Constant Contact to iContact (because a friend worked there - he doesn't anymore), and finally just moved my "newsletter" to my LinkedIn Group (where I can send an "announcement" every 8 days). So, I had to update the link ...

5 LinkedIn Tips You Didn’t Know (or did you?) – Fast Company

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Amber Mac wrote a short article on Fast Company with the five LinkedIn tips you didn' t know (see list here). The good news?  If you've been reading this blog, my LinkedIn book, or my LinkedIn DVD, you did know about them!  Here they are (see her article for her thoughts ...

New LinkedIn Spam – Pattern

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Yesterday I posted about some spam I am getting - four by mid-afternoon yesterday - ugh! Here's something I noticed... since I have a somewhat zero-tolerance policy on slimeball spammers, I go in and look for the connection to "remove"... One was from Alex V. Lambert (my apologies to anyone named ...

More LinkedIn Spam

Monday, May 16th, 2011

I'm getting more LinkedIn spam through direct messages. It's dissappointing because it hasn't been very common. Here's how this spammer started - it looks like they have a program to extract my title and other general information from my Profile, and marry it to a template message (the rest is as ...

Optimizing Slideshare On Your LinkedIn Profile

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Up until this week I've had four Powerpoint presenations on my LinkedIn Profile, via the Slideshare Application. NOTE: all of the links below take you to a LinkedIn Profile. To see what I'm talking about you have to click the button that says "View Full Profile." I've always felt four was too ...