Archive for the ‘social networking’ Category

LinkedIn Contacts vs. LinkedIn Policy: Now This Issue Can’t Be Ignored

Friday, April 26th, 2013

LinkedIn Contacts is one of the coolest things LinkedIn has released.  They should have done it years ago.  They really should have just acquired JibberJobber years ago, but oh well :) LinkedIn Contacts is the closest thing to CRM that LinkedIn has released.  It comes from some strategic acquisitions, one directly ...

What is your LinkedIn Connection Policy?

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

I have a simple connection policy.  Because I have such a public presence (with my articles, speaking, books, JibberJobber, etc.) I pretty much accept everyone who invites me to connect. I know LinkedIn says to only accept invitations from people you know and trust, but I think that concept is fundamentally ...

LinkedIn Proactive Strategies Webinar

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

If you haven't heard yet, I'm doing a webinar on Friday morning (9am MST) on how to create and execute a proactive strategy on LinkedIn.  More details and signup button here. From that page: In this webinar you will learn: Where to find people on LinkedIn.  There are many more places than the ...

LinkedIn: Like vs Share vs Comment

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 ...

LinkedIn 500 Club (??): Why one person says you should have 500+ Connections

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 ...

What Has LinkedIn Evolved To? Very Interesting Comments from Recruiters

Thursday, November 1st, 2012

LinkedIn used to be a place employed people, business owners, etc. would go to "network" professionally. Over time, with changes in their perceived brand, features, users, marketing, and how LinkedIn was actually used, things have changed. What I'm hearing now is mostly that LinkedIn is the next-generation job board.  This is good ...

LinkedIn Alternatives: Awesome comments on LinkedIn strategy and competition

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

On Quora there is an awesome question:  LinkedIn: Why hasn't anyone disrupted LinkedIn yet? Actually, what's awesome is John Bischke's answer here. In a nutshell John talks about the diff between LinkedIn and Facebook... and what could disrupt LinkedIn. I agree with everything he says. I don't think any organization is going to be ...

Own A Group? Make Sure Your Templates Are Right!

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

Here's one of those "I'll get around to it when I have time."  In the meantime I've lost thousands of branding opportunities. This week I started a new Group (my second) called the Veteran Transition Alliance.  I haven't advertised it out yet, don't even have a logo yet. I do know that ...

LinkedIn on Forbes: awesome article

Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

Check out this really interesting article on Forbes: LinkedIn is Disrupting the Corporate Recruiting Market While it reads somewhat biased, the information is really interesting regarding LinkedIn's growth, finances (almost $1B in revenues this year? Companies are moving a lot of money away from you-know-who and putting it into LinkedIn), and ...

What Number Are You On LinkedIn? (2 yrs later)

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post asking what number you were on LinkedIn. Apparently there were about 60 million signups back then, now there are over 160 million signups. The Profile I use was the 5,108,340th member.  A profile I signed up with earlier, that I had ...