Archive for the ‘Using LinkedIn’ Category
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
LinkedIn recently announced they are giving Group owners the ability to make a LinkedIn Group public... and some people are getting really excited about it.
But what does that mean to you?
In a nutshell, if a LinkedIn Group switches from Private, where no one can access the Group unless they (a) ...
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Weird title, I know. I didn't know how to appropriately wrap this one up.
Yesterday, right before I had a very important webinar on LinkedIn, I found my LinkedIn account was inaccessible. I had to use Plan C, which is never fun.
I was prompted to do a "forgot password," but I was ...
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Monday, November 29th, 2010
Just saw this last week on Facebook... Steve is a recruiters, a power connector and I think a power user of LinkedIn:
What do you think? Has that been your experience?
I have opinions on the value of upgrading, and on the constant changes on LinkedIn, and even on the idea that ...
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
I am doing research for my book as I finish the third edition (yeah!) and came across this page: a nice, easy-to-read list of industries that are on LinkedIn. Check it out here.
Here's a snippet of what it looks like:
This is the best view I've seen on this type of ...
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Thursday, November 4th, 2010
I hate getting crap email, especially from LinkedIn connections.
I just got this:
I want to be able to do two things from here:
Mark as spam. On Twitter I can flag as spam AND block the contact. Would be great to do that from here.
Remove the Connection. The process now ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn Spam, Using LinkedIn | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
I am regularly asked "do you have an example of someone who ______ using LinkedIn?"
Perhaps they "found a job," or "got rich," or "sold a big account," or something like that.
People are dying to get some ROI out of these darn social tools!
I do not keep track of the stories ...
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Monday, November 1st, 2010
As I go through my LinkedIn book and update it for the third edition I find some things I can blog about - stuff that is actionable, or stuff that is different from last edition.
Here's one.... this has kind of bugged me for a while and now there's an easy ...
Posted in LinkedIn Groups, Using LinkedIn | 4 Comments »
Friday, October 29th, 2010
I saw a brilliant post by Amos asking recruiters what LinkedIn is, IN ONE SENTENCE.
Here are some replies:
What do you think?
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Last week I did about 20 hours of presenting, including two 6-hour workshops.
Judah Flum was in one of the 6-hour workshops, on the front row.
To be honest with you, I think I have great content and great ideas, but I wonder how many of the attendees will actually do some ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
I just got this message in an invitation to connect:
You probably know I designed JibberJobber.com as a tool to help organize and keep track of a job search - most of which is keeping track of network contacts. So I'm greatly biased here, but I want to make a distinction ...
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