Poll Reveals Introverts Prefer LinkedIn!

Posted by Steve Tylock on 04 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Ways to Use LinkedIn

January’s poll results are in – of people who claim to network in the real world infrequently, 85% say that they use LinkedIn heavily or modestly.

I guess it is true – those that don’t like to get out of the house do like LinkedIn – but that can’t be the only wildly shocking data this poll reveals.

Let’s see what else…

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LinkedIn Profile Customization

Posted by Steve Tylock on 02 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Profiles

LinkedIn just released a feature on customizing your profile – you may now alter the default order of the sections.

I’m trying to find a compelling reason to do so or something to say about why this is phenomenal, but I really can’t…

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Five LinkedIn Articles From The Archive You Might Have Missed

Posted by Steve Tylock on 28 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Connections, Endorsements, Profiles

While I published The LinkedIn Personal Trainer in June of 2007, I re-launched this blog in May of 2008 with a new look. It’s worked well, and readership is doing very well.

But most of you weren’t there in 2008;-)

And I wrote some key articles that I keep referring to, and I thought I’d pull out five for you.

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Raising Venture Funds Through LinkedIn

Posted by Steve Tylock on 22 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Entrepreneurial

Caught this report out of IrishTimes.com – a company raised a nice pot of venture funding exclusively through LinkedIn.

That’s the kind of story worth looking at;-)

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LinkedIn Contacts Under Simply Hired Job Postings

Posted by Steve Tylock on 21 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Jobs

LinkedIn and Simply Hired have teamed up to extend LinkedIn connection information into the Simply Hired web site itself. This looks better than where LinkedIn pulls in Simply Hired information into the LinkedIn site;-)

Let’s navigate through this.

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Frustrating LinkedIn Search

Posted by Steve Tylock on 19 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Search, Ways to Use LinkedIn

Longtime readers will know that I’m generally supportive of the things that LinkedIn does – and concentrate on giving readers advice that helps them best use the site as it exists.

But today’s article takes a look into search and I’ll be a little frank – it didn’t go as planned;-)

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Bah – Shut It Down – Follow-up on WSJ

Posted by Steve Tylock on 14 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Outside LinkedIn

It seems like the Wall Street Journal’s “LinkedIn Killer” was just in the news – oh wait – it was;-)

Back in August I wrote about the flurry of activity on the net about this effort.  We have an update, and it doesn’t look good for the killer effort…

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Search for Yourself – How Many of You Are There?

Posted by Steve Tylock on 12 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Profiles

Back to the future of 2010 – if you look for yourself on LinkedIn, how many of you will you find?

It’s an important item to figure out because if you happen to have multiple profiles on LinkedIn, you’re saying something about yourself and your abilities to manage this tool.

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Most Popular Articles of 2009 on The LinkedIn Personal Trainer

Posted by Steve Tylock on 08 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: About the Service

Took a moment to look back through the counts of articles read in 2009 – thought you might enjoy seeing what was most popular – and if you’re a new reader, you might want to check these out.

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LinkedIn Users More Active Now Than a Year Ago!

Posted by Steve Tylock on 06 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: About the Service

December’s poll results are in – two thirds of you are more active today than you were a year ago.

Let’s see what else we can find out by having a look at those poll results!

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