Look, we all know that LinkedIn is incredibly important. That it's gone beyond being an online CV is obvious. It's also much more than just a place for making online business connections.The professional social network is a great place for promoting content, your business, and most importantly yourself. But with over 150-million registered users, getting noticed can sometimes be a little tricky. Most of use recognise that merely filling out a profile isn't going to cut it. As LinkedIn's ...
Thou shalt not share your LinkedIn password with your colleagues at work, unless you are happy to face the prospects of having your account hacked and stolen right under your nose.A New York court recently ruled that an employer did stay within the legal realm when it hijacked the previous CEO’s LinkedIn account after booting her out of the company.After being fired by the company she founded, Linda Eagle learned to her horror that not only her LinkedIn account had ...
Were you concerned that the LinkedIn newsfeed was set for a quick demise after Twitter decided to disconnect from the service and no longer allowed tweets to feed through on to your home screen? Well, it seems your fears were unfounded: the LinkedIn team seems to be happier without it, and all the LinkedIn users just seem to be clicking on through to the other big blue social network.According to analytics service PageLever, the volume of referrals from LinkedIn ...
At the recent ‘TechCrunch: Disrupt Technology’ Conference held in San Francisco, LinkedIn co-founder and chairman Reid Hoffman rocked the audience when he revealed that “from a LinkedIn perspective, it improved the product to lose the Twitter connection.”Just three months ago, Twitter broke up its digital marriage to LinkedIn when it suspended its news feed link into the LinkedIn update reel -- much to the ire of the global social networking community. Apparently the reason for this sudden departure from the ...
You most likely already have a LinkedIn profile, connected with a couple of people that you know, and joined a few groups - now what? Did you know that you can use LinkedIn as a source of leads for your business? LinkedIn is not the same as Facebook, Twitter or any of the other popular social media channels.Even though there are more than 175-million members on LinkedIn and two new members joining every second, many people are still unsure how ...
LinkedIn continues to be not only the social media site for professionals, but the professional of the social media companies. One of the best-performing recent tech IPOs reported another strong quarter, beating expectations for revenue and boosting full-year guidance.Shares jumped 12% to US$105.24 in recent trading. This comes a week after Facebook shares dropped steadily in the wake of its earnings and its stock hit an all-time low, dipping below US$20 for the first time ever.Currently, LinkedIn is ...
LinkedIn is undoubtedly the world's top professional social network. And just like if you don’t tip a car guard you’re a bad person, society would also have you believe that your profile on the platform may be the most important web presence you hold, and what you put in your profile could open plenty of doors for you.I don’t know about the car guards, but the belief about LinkedIn, I’ve found is, without doubt, questionable.Unlike most social networks, the ...
If you were applying for a job and were asked for your resume, you will provide the potential employer with a detailed account of your job history, what you do, your areas of expertise, your achievements and personal references from credible sources.
If your company was bidding for a large contract, your bid will contain a detailed overview of what your company does, where you add value and all the resources that will be involved in the contract you are ...
As a practicing B2B social media marketer, I use LinkedIn and Twitter extensively to share thoughts with my Twitter followers and LinkedIn connections. To make it easier to share the same content across both platforms, a link was provided between Twitter and LinkedIn. You could use this in two ways by either replicating all your tweets on LinkedIn or selectively sharing your tweets with your LinkedIn contacts by including a #in hashtag in your tweet.Sadly, this feature is no longer ...
I clearly mean “The Dark Knight Rises” Batman; not “Original Grey Suit with Yellow Belt” Batman. The professional social media platform had made a significant change to its status updates for companies.LinkedIn has always been the forgotten social network -- mainly because of its unwavering dedication to the professional. This means that it has not always been popular with the masses who adopt social technologies quickly; but that has not stopped it from reaching north of 100-million registered users.LinkedIn ...