Archive for May, 2011
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Check this out...
On JibberJobber we did this little trick where you can filter down on your network contacts doing a search like this:
lastname:alba
I have been used to doing this for the last year, and when I was on LinkedIn I wasn't thinking, and automatically did a search like this:
company:microsoft
Guess what? ...
Posted in LinkedIn Companies, Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Yesterday I posted about some spam I am getting - four by mid-afternoon yesterday - ugh!
Here's something I noticed... since I have a somewhat zero-tolerance policy on slimeball spammers, I go in and look for the connection to "remove"... One was from Alex V. Lambert (my apologies to anyone named ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn Maintenance, LinkedIn Spam, Using LinkedIn | 5 Comments »
Monday, May 16th, 2011
I'm getting more LinkedIn spam through direct messages. It's dissappointing because it hasn't been very common.
Here's how this spammer started - it looks like they have a program to extract my title and other general information from my Profile, and marry it to a template message (the rest is as ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn Maintenance, LinkedIn Profiles, LinkedIn Spam, Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
Friday, May 6th, 2011
One of the most famous references on how to use LinkedIn is Guy Kawasaki's Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn. I still see people point to this post, today, more than four years later (LinkedIn was almost 4 years old when it was written).
I wanted to revisit Guy's post and speak ...
Posted in LinkedIn for Job Seekers, social networking, Using LinkedIn | 2 Comments »
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
If you change your current title in LinkedIn, double check to see if it is now your Professional Headline.
I recrafted my Professional Headline and then add a new current title, and it overwrote my Professional Headline. :(
A few weeks later it happened again, on another account.
I'd mark this up to ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Yesterday I announced I brought on my dad to the JibberJobber team, and WE'RE EXCITED! I'm super excited to have his help, and he's excited to have a change in his career. You can read about it here.
Today we spent some time on his LinkedIn Profile. For various reasons (good ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles | No Comments »
