Archive for the ‘Using LinkedIn’ Category
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Yesterday I talked about the Who's Viewed My Profile stats on your LinkedIn homepage... let's go one step further. Two points to talk about... I clicked on the link that shows that 13 people viewed my LinkedIn Profile:
POINT 1
Many times you are quite anonymous when you look at someone else's ...
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
You know this part on the front page, right column, of your LinkedIn Profile:
I get a lot of questions about this... including this one:
A client of mine who is a paid member of LinkedIn receives information regarding how many times his profile is being viewed... e.g., his "profile has been ...
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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 ...
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
Finally. Twitter came out of nowhere, seemingly with 70 million signups. LinkedIn is now at 70 million - congrats to them :) Some stuff I learned from this article:
50% is international (outside of the U.S.),
There are 1M company profiles (how many are preloaded and how many are put in by ...
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
That is Peter Newfield's question on LinkedIn... there are 22 answers and it's really interesting.
Some say the early adopters are out because they just go look for shiny stuff, but the value is still definitely there.
Others say that LinkedIn moved Answers off the main menu and that has decreased the ...
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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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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
There's something I haven't quite put my finger on with LinkedIn messages, but it is really messing me up.
I got a message from a contact through LinkedIn (a la InMail) and the ONLY way I can respond is through the LinkedIn messaging system.
I'd REALLY like to just hit reply in ...
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
I just learned I'll be shipping the preorders for LinkedIn for Job Seekers, Second Edition, this week. I should have the DVDs tomorrow or Thursday. I've already put mailing labels on about 70 envelopes (thanks for the preorders!) and need to print out a document to include with each order.
Here's ...
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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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Friday, May 7th, 2010
Here's a question I got from someone asking about the value of Monster in a job search:
(1) With LinkedIn's new Company Follow feature, LI Recruiter/Premium Membership, LI Corporate Accounts and (2) of course the fact that most of its revenue comes from ads and job postings, (3) how is LinkedIn ...
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