Archive for the ‘LinkedIn Profiles’ Category
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 ...
Posted in LinkedIn Applications, LinkedIn Maintenance, LinkedIn Profiles | 7 Comments »
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
I had to delete my LinkedIn Profile picture for two reasons:
The one I had really brought out my balding head, since I cropped it right where the balding started, and it seemed I was trying to hide something. I had various people tell me that :p
LinkedIn introduced a new "feature" ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles | 3 Comments »
Monday, February 14th, 2011
You may have heard debates about what is better, Facebook or LinkedIn or ____.
I don't get too involved in those talks for various reasons. Even though LinkedIn has 1/6th (more or less) the number of signups that Facebook has, it is still a strong, contender for what it does.
Can Facebook, ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles, social networking, Using LinkedIn | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 30th, 2010
Not too long ago I did a LinkedIn Profile critique for someone and one of the comments was "you should know better - we're not allowed to put our contact info (email addy) anywhere in the profile!"
It was a lame handslap...
Anyway, this is fairly-well-debated by users. Should LinkedIn keep us ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles | 2 Comments »
Friday, December 17th, 2010
Last week in Maryland I met a brilliant materials engineer who was very open to a LinkedIn Profile critique. He gave me permission to do the critique here, even though it might get a little raw.
Want a LinkedIn Profile Critique like this? Let me know. It is currently priced at ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles | 6 Comments »
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Have you heard of the phrase "jumped the shark?"
It refers to a Happy Days episode when The Fonz (aka, Fonzie) was water skiing and he jumped over a shark.
From wikipedia (read that page for more info and a picture of the Fonz skiing :p):
These changes were often the result of ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
I was on LinkedIn today to see if one of my contacts had their picture up - I haven't met him in person and wanted to grab the image and put it into JibberJobber (the CRM I use to manage and track my relationships).
I was happy to see this contact ...
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
I got this from an attendee of one of my recent LinkedIn workshops:
I've found an interesting use of Twitter. I've found some interesting profiles in LinkedIn with no common groups to me or logical introduction devices, but they have Twitter accounts. I go in and follow them on Twitter. So ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles, social networking | 2 Comments »
Monday, September 13th, 2010
I have always said to use as many of the 2,000 characters as possible in your LinkedIn Summary, but I just found an example of a very short Summary that I really liked... check out personal branding expert William Arruda's Summary:
That's it... SHORT!
He is essentially saying "here's better information on ...
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
I wanted to showcase a summary I just came across that I really like.
It is ... different. Very different. But I like it :)
Tia Dobi (@TiaDobi)is a professional writer... check out her summary :
I love how this is a letter she is writing to her target audience.
All Summaries should be ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles | 4 Comments »
