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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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Using Linkedin Properly – 2: Connect

30 April 2010
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Linkedin is huge, but this isn’t why I like it. I like Linkedin because it is useful. I’ve noticed, however, that people are not making use of it. Here is the second of three simple ways you can get so much more out of Linkedin, and your network will thank you for it. 2 – [...]

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Using Linkedin Properly – 1: Be Found

28 April 2010
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Linkedin is huge, but this isn’t why I like it. I like linkedin because it is useful. I’ve noticed, however, that people are not making use of it. Here is the first of three simple ways you can get so much more out of Linkedin, and your network will thank you for it. 1 – [...]

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Essex Networking for Property Professionals – #Be2campEast

10 April 2010
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Are you a property professional working in or near Essex? Do you want to know more about using the internet in your business? Would you like to do ‘proper’ face to face networking rather than brave the sharks? Then perhaps you should come along to Be2camp East. Be2camp is an organisation dedicated to bringing together [...]

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Using Twitter and Linkedin to get a Job – Paul Weston’s Story

16 March 2010
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“Its like a soap opera, it’s the soap opera of life” – Dave Monk BBC Essex This morning my friend Paul Weston was interviewed live on BBC Essex radio by Dave Monk. Paul is a normal guy, an estimator from Essex who like many of his colleagues was made redundant recently. So how come he’s [...]

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Social Media in Construction – some great presentations

4 February 2010

More and more construction professionals are starting to investigate using Social Media tools for marketing and collaboration, and this was reflected in yesterdays Emap Construction Marketing Training day where we saw great presentations on blogging, linkedin and facebook (and a reasonable one on twitter) plus really thought provoking discussions on twitter and in the room. [...]

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Linkedin Destroys Company Confidentiality – No it doesn’t

5 January 2010

One of my recent construction industry connections emailed me yesterday about a dilemma he was having in Linkedin. This is what he said: Hi Su, Trying to get my head around LinkedIn and connecting to people who work for direct competitor organisations. Whether that is a good thing or not? For example colleagues who used [...]

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Linkedin – How it works

14 December 2009
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Linkedin is a white pages directory of professionals, one of the most successful online. Here is a brief guide to how it works. The slides below are taken from my ‘Why Take Your Network online’ presentation and provide an illustration to this article. How Linkedin Works View more presentations from Su Butcher. Joining Linkedin When [...]

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My Holy Trinity of Social Media Platforms

7 December 2009

I use ‘Social Media’ primarily for networking – finding new contacts, growing relationships with the right ones and then helping develop business opportunities for each other. Earlier this week I was asked about the applications I thought one should keep up with, and it prompted me to write a reply which I’d like to share [...]

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