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LinkedIn

Linkedin shuts down Tweets Application – but what about Connections?

30 January 2012

Last week Linkedin announced that it “will be shutting off the Tweets application on January 31, 2012”. Here is the announcement: I found out about Tweets in May 2010 from this post on the Linkedin Blog and have blogged about Linkedin and Twitter integration on and off since. Integration has some downsides, in particular the [...]

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Construction Professionals – Learn how to use Linkedin

24 January 2012
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I’ve been asked whether I might consider helping construction professionals learn how to use Linkedin properly so I’m planning a seminar. I’d like to choose a couple of venues in the UK to deliver it. I’m currently researching venues and locations around the UK for this workshop. If you’d like me to deliver a workshop [...]

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Linkedin – getting recommended the right way

14 May 2011
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One important aspect of your Linkedin Profile is the endorsements you get from people you know on Linkedin. Endorsements give your profile credibility by linking it back into ‘real life’. So how to get the five endorsements Linkedin recommends you aim for? We were discussing this on twitter tonight and the suggestion arose that getting [...]

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How to remove a non-employee from your Company Pages on Linkedin

11 March 2011

I recently noticed that someone had said they were ‘HR at’ my company on Linkedin, so I had to find out how to get them off. Here is how I did it. If you say you work at a company, Linkedin tries to associate you with that company on their database, so people may accidentally [...]

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Search Linkedin status updates – new feature

3 February 2011

Over the last few years many of the social media platforms have been attempting to introduce successful aspects of their competitor’s sites, and today I heard about another example of this – Signal from Linkedin. Signal lets you search the status updates of Linkedin users for key words. You can then filter these results using [...]

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Using Linkedin Properly – Chelmsford Womens Referral Network

28 September 2010

Tomorrow I’m giving a talk to the Chelmsford Women’s Referral Network, a group of professional women organised by Judy Day, a solicitor at Prettys, Kirsten Woodgate, previously of Lloyds Banking Group now KLW Business Evolution and, Joanna Hamblin director at Bird Luckin Chartered Accountants. The group aims to give professional women working in Chelmsford the [...]

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The Damage Sales Messages Do to Linkedin Groups – here’s what to do

8 July 2010
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I’m grateful to Sarah Arrow who runs a Linkedin group for Essex businesses, for alerting me to this problem, which I’m sure is of concern to many of you who use the Groups feature on Linkedin. Groups have become a very important feature of Linkedin with some real potential, but many are going astray. Groups [...]

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Turn off Tweeting Via Linkedin – Screencast

20 June 2010

Do you find twitter updates swamping your linkedin homepage? Here’s how to turn them off. Also if you’re a discerning twitter user and want to be more discriminating in how you update your linkedin status, the screencast also shows you how to change your twitter settings on linkedin. You can also view this video on [...]

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Six types of people I’m Linkedin with

3 June 2010

I’ve got 49 pending Linkedin invitations in my inbox at the moment. I get a lot, partly because I have a lot of contacts on Linkedin (over 500). But I clearly don’t accept them all. Matt Franklin (the architect in Shropshire who runs Ask The Architect) asked me tonight: “@SuButcher Just been looking at Linkedin [...]

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Using Pull Marketing on Linkedin – don’t be Pushy!

27 May 2010
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Last time I defined Push and Pull Marketing in this way: Push marketing is when the customer doesn’t want your product or service. Pull marketing is when the customer does want your product or service. Now lets look at a couple of social tools. These tools put a greater number of people in touch with [...]

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