Archive for the ‘LinkedIn News’ Category

Diez Cinco de Mayos…

Sunday, May 5th, 2013

10 years old. Happy birthday LinkedIn!

Learnings from Earnings: LinkedIn’s Q1 Reporting

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

Check out this post: LinkedIn Stock Dips 10% On Slowing Growth, Even As It Beats Q1 Estimates On Sales of $324.7M; EPS $0.45 I don't like the stock market. I don't think it provides real feedback on how a company really does, so the 10% dip doesn't concern me at all. Having ...

I’m not surprised: LinkedIn works, Twitter useless

Friday, February 1st, 2013

Check out this article from the WSJ: Small Firms Say LinkedIn Works, Twitter Doesn't From the article: Six out of 10 small-business owners say they believe social-media tools are valuable to their company's growth—but most aren't impressed by Twitter Inc. I've seen a lot of evolution over the last 6.5 years.  Twitter was ...

LinkedIn Retires Answers: A Sad Announcement

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

Answers has been the #1 feature in LinkedIn since the beginning. On January 17, as I was doing my New LinkedIn Profile webinar, someone made a comment that they just got an email from LinkedIn that Answers was going to be retired. I'm baffled. I heard people say they didn't want Events or ...

In Other News: LinkedIn Passes 200M Members

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

This one snuck up on me... I knew we were close to 200 million members (not users) on LinkedIn... but I didn't hear or read about it anywhere until this morning, 5 days after LinkedIn blogged about it. I saw it on the front page of LinkedIn today, as one of ...

Navigating the New LinkedIn Profile: Webinar

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

I am doing a webinar at 9am on January 17th to help you understand the new LinkedIn Webinar. There are two huge changes that affect everyone: First, the layout. The put the Activities (which is new) way up high... and bumped down your Summary... I don't like this.  There are a bunch ...

New LinkedIn Profile – Not For Me (yet)

Friday, December 14th, 2012

I still don't have the LinkedIn Profile. (UPDATE 12/19 I woke up to the new Profile... yeah :)  Now, time to play with it!) This takes me back to elementary school when I was always the last one picked :( I've seen the new one, and critiqued Profiles for people who have ...

Dec 11: The Day The Apps Went Away (and LinkedIn Profiles became Relevant!!)

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

I am getting a bunch of emails today (and yesterday) about the notification that LinkedIn Apps are going away.  This is kind of interesting.  Here's the official page from LinkedIn that says they are going away.  Make sure you click the app name on that page for an explanation of ...

Uh Oh, maybe Jerry Albright is right about LinkedIn’s future

Tuesday, November 20th, 2012

Check out this really interesting (and short) post on RecruitingBlogs.  Will Thomson starts out: "I am noticing that more candidates are becoming less willing to receiving inmails on Linkedin." Not surprising.  But it gets much worse in the comments. (read them here) A few weeks ago I wrote a post saying that recruiting ...

Did You Know You Could BLOG On LinkedIn?

Wednesday, November 14th, 2012

This is pretty groundbreaking. Well, it will be, if they roll it out more universally. Last month (Oct 2012) I heard from Jim Stroud, who is a recruiter, recruiter trainer, and social media enthusiast, that LinkedIn now has a blogging feature. Right now it is for an elite group of LinkedIn members (which ...