Archive for July, 2012
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 ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles, social networking, Using LinkedIn | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Check out the account below? Would you connect with it? I'm kind of surprised 142 people have connected...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles, LinkedIn Spam, Using LinkedIn | 2 Comments »
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
In short, I don't think so.
I haven't seen the new change... it's rolling out for people over "the next few weeks." You can get a run-down on TechCrunch's article, as well as a screenshot. (more here, on Business Insider)
What's really interesting, as usual, are the comments in that article. Comments ...
Posted in Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
You'll regularly see LinkedIn and Facebook and Twitter and Google+ (and whoever else that is relevant) position themselves a bit differently so that they can compete in slightly different spaces.
You know, like they say LinkedIn is like going to a formal dinner party, and Facebook is like going to a ...
Posted in LinkedIn News | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
Here's another article on how to use LinkedIn for a business: BusinessLink: Five LinkedIn Features that Will Help You Market Your Business
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I think LinkedIn Companies is pretty weak, and I hope no company is spending too much time on it. So I can't stand ...
Posted in LinkedIn Answers, LinkedIn Groups, LinkedIn Profiles, Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
Monday, July 9th, 2012
Great article by John Sullivan on the ERE blog titled: 20 Reasons Why LinkedIn Will Be the #1 Recruiting Portal of the Future
I could make counterpoints to each of his 20 reasons... like:
#6: Its profiles are accurate. He says "research has shown"... I would love to see that research. If ...
Posted in LinkedIn for Job Seekers, social networking, Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
Thursday, July 5th, 2012
I saw a link to an Inc.com article: 7 Things You're Doing Wrong on LinkedIn
I normally find these articles/posts and think I'm either going to find regurgitated cliche, or simply bad/lame advice.
In this case, though, I agree with every single point. The article is written for small business owners... and ...
Posted in Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
Monday, July 2nd, 2012
There's been a bit of chatter (not much) about LinkedIn not putting anymore Tweets on their interface.
That is, when you go to LinkedIn, you shouldn't see anything that was initiated from Twitter. I think that's what's going on... You can read more about it on Mashable here. (LinkedIn's blog post ...
Posted in LinkedIn News, Using LinkedIn | 1 Comment »
