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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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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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Seven First Steps in Twitter – 2: Finding People You Know – ScreenCast

13 September 2010

When you’re starting out using Twitter, your real life friends and contacts can be immensely useful. Apart from anything else they are likely to be the most sympathetic with your early attempts to understand the medium, and they’ll help you get started. If they are any good at networking they’ll also start introducing you to [...]

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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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Stop tweeting on Linkedin – should I give an ultimatum?

11 May 2010

Since my three posts on how to use Linkedin properly I’ve been thinking about what I should do. Should I put my money where my mouth is? Earlier this year Linkedin and Twitter confirmed they had enabled Twitter-Linkedin integration. This is how it works. When you connect your linkedin account to your twitter account, you [...]

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Using Linkedin Properly – 3: Ask for Help

5 May 2010
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If you’ve read my last two blog posts about this subject on Getting Found on Linkedin and particularly on Getting Connected on Linkedin, you might be thinking, “Hang on a minute. I can connect to all these dozens of people, and send them information about my company and how great we are!” or you might [...]

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