Archive for the ‘LinkedIn Profiles’ Category
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
I'm reading through the post on the LinkedIn professional headline and Peter Osborne's great feedback to those who have left comments (I'll probably close the comments in a while). One thing that jumps out is ... how to put this... BORING.
Why is it boring... that's the question I'm asking myself. ...
Posted in LinkedIn Introductions, LinkedIn Profiles, Using LinkedIn | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Yesterday I wrote about LinkedIn Professional Headlines as a marketing opportunity and said you could put yours in the comments and "I (we?) might critique it."
Then, I buckled down and went to work on some big deadlines.
THEN, people started putting their headlines in.... I critiqued three but had to get ...
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
So many times I see LinkedIn Professional Headlines that ... well, suck.
Yours probably sucks (unless you got my LinkedIn book or my LinkedIn DVD, as I talk about this quite a bit in those).
Here's a quick test:
(a) Does your LinkedIn Professional Headline have your TITLE?
(b) Does your LinkedIn Professional Headline ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles, Using LinkedIn | 71 Comments »
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
I was checking out a friend's LinkedIn Profile and noticed he had some quasi-bullets... I've had this on my list for a long time but never get around to doing it on my own Profile, but I thought I'd steal 3 minutes from my schedule and throw something up really ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
LinkedIn has a great opportunity to clean up spam on its network... it would be a very simple enhancement that would help the community self-police.
On a LinkedIn Profile page, on the right, there are a bunch of links:
The closest they get to deleting a contact is to "report profile photo ...
Posted in LinkedIn Groups, LinkedIn Profiles, Using LinkedIn, social networking | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
LinkedIn Applications - which ones do you load, which ones do you ignore?
I've not been a big fan of the Amazon Reading List application, in general. I think people generally put... well, what they are reading. This may not be on-brand, and essentially becomes NOISE on an already-too-busy LinkedIn Profile.
I ...
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Here's a simple question that a lot of people mess up. Many times I'll get an email that says "will you check out my LinkedIn Profile, here's the link: http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_tab_pro"
Actually, that IS NOT the link to YOUR LinkedIn Profile... what they did was they went to their LinkedIn Profile and ...
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
I'm working on my third book, titled Eight Lunches. It's a cool idea and I'm actually looking at people to review the latest draft (more info and an excerpt here).
While I'm asking for people to review the draft and provide feedback that can help the book be more solid, I'm ...
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Every once in a while I hear the question: how do I get 100% on my LinkedIn Profile.
My answer? It doesn't matter.
If you really want to know, here's an article you can refer to. I don't know if this is accurate information, and I think it has changed over time. ...
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
I got an email from a friend in Washington state asking why there is someone in her LinkedIn Company page that she doesn't know. This is a very small company, she is an owner, and she would clearly know who she has hired and/or paid.
The way you end up in ...
Posted in LinkedIn Companies, LinkedIn Profiles | 16 Comments »
