Archive for the ‘LinkedIn Groups’ Category
Monday, October 29th, 2012
In most places in LinkedIn you won't see a URL on your Professional Headline become a hyperlink.
But there is one very cool place that it becomes a link: In my email inbox. Look at this:
This is what I see in my inbox this morning. It is the daily email I ...
Posted in LinkedIn Groups, LinkedIn Profiles, Using LinkedIn | 1 Comment »
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 ...
Posted in LinkedIn Groups, social networking, Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
I am on a handful of Groups where my Discussion comments are moderated.
In general, I think it is ridiculous.
I want to see my comments fast, and I want to have the conversation build fast. If you have a bottleneck in comments getting posted (at the whim of the mood of ...
Posted in LinkedIn Groups, LinkedIn Spam | 2 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 ...
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Check out this post on Recruiting Blogs by Jim Stroud on how to post to multiple LinkedIn Groups at the same time. (watch on YouTube here)
Can you do this? Youbetcha.
Should you do this? Um.... well... um... what do you think?
Posted in LinkedIn Groups, social networking, Using LinkedIn | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
People are funny, aren't they? They want to find a posted job, then apply for it, then interview for it, then, accept an awesome job offer, and then move out of "job mode."
If there is anything you learn from this past recession I hope that it is that you need ...
Posted in LinkedIn for Job Seekers, LinkedIn Groups | No Comments »
Monday, December 5th, 2011
As a Group admin I go in and approve members of my Group on a regular basis.
I don't want spammers in my Group, so I try to very quickly determine who is real and who isn't. I wrote about this just a few weeks ago here: Want to Join a ...
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
As a LinkedIn Group Administrator I have the power to accept or decline access to my Group.
LinkedIn flags certain profiles as a help... here's a snapshot of three that are flagged:
I rarely take time to check those Profiles out. I just uncheck the box on the left (which I already ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
Here's a quick change I just made on my Profile.
I switched from Constant Contact to iContact (because a friend worked there - he doesn't anymore), and finally just moved my "newsletter" to my LinkedIn Group (where I can send an "announcement" every 8 days).
So, I had to update the link ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
As a Group admin I get to approve requests to join my LinkedIn group. Every time I do it I always skip a few ... usually those that LinkedIn warns me about.
There are two things that jump out at me that make me think the person/account/Profile isn't a real person... ...
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