June 2010
Monthly Archive
LinkedIn Groups – Getting Social
Steve Tylock 28 Jun 2010 | : Groups
LinkedIn recently offered a significant update to the groups function.
Looking back – I covered the last update in September / October 2008, so it looks like the folks at LinkedIn reviewed that effort and turned it into an eighteen month update cycle.
Let’s have a look.
Exposing LinkedIn Connection Myths – Part X
Steve Tylock 24 Jun 2010 | : Connections, Ways to Use LinkedIn
Connecting to thousands of people you don’t know …
So let’s wrap this up – and answer the really big question – why does this matter?!?
For that, we must return one more time into the breach…
Exposing LinkedIn Connection Myths – Part IX
Steve Tylock 22 Jun 2010 | : Connections, Ways to Use LinkedIn
Connecting to thousands of people you don’t know gets you more sales leads, opportunities, and addresses for your database!
Finally – let’s look at a few comments I’ve seen about connecting indiscriminately that might actually have more truth in them than the others.
But do they count for you?
Let’s see…
More Linkedin Lawsuit Nonsense
Steve Tylock 16 Jun 2010 | : Connections, Ways to Use LinkedIn
Short version: people are once again talking about a lawsuit that includes the word “LinkedIn” and suggesting that connecting to coworkers / ex-coworkers could be covered by employment agreements.
THAT ISN”T THE ISSUE AT ALL.
If you agree to not solicit company employees, and actually do that, you will get sued – even if the method of solicitation is through LinkedIn, IM, email, facebook, or twitter.
We talked about this three months ago…
Exposing LinkedIn Connection Myths – Part VIII
Steve Tylock 13 Jun 2010 | : Connections, Ways to Use LinkedIn
Connecting to thousands of people you don’t know is the best way to drive traffic to your web site!
The myth list is nearing the end, but there’s still a couple more we must talk about before we can put this issue to rest.
And it is interesting, one of my readers, Kurt (don’t worry about which one – there are only 27,000 Kurts on LinkedIn), thinks I am beating a dead horse, but he manages to find out new and interesting things each time I write on the subject, so it does seem to be a different way to think about the system – and worth the time to investigate.
And hey – who doesn’t want more traffic on their web site – I know I do!
So let’s figure out how this could work.
LinkedIn Updates The Inbox
Steve Tylock 09 Jun 2010 | : About the Service
Updating mobile apps one day, the Inbox another – you’d think those people over at LinkedIn were busy or something…-)
I’ve taken a hard position on LinkedIn’s Inbox for a long time and this update makes the system palatable – let’s look.
LinkedIn BlackBerry Version 1.1 Released
Steve Tylock 07 Jun 2010 | : Ways to Use LinkedIn
LinkedIn is letting us know that the first uptick in their BlackBerry software, version 1.1 – has been released.
It adds support for Storm and Pearl, and you know what they say about release .1!
LinkedIn For The Hard At Work
Steve Tylock 05 Jun 2010 | : Ways to Use LinkedIn
Let’s offer some assistance for those that are feeling LinkedIn is useful only if you are looking for a new job.
You know – they say “I’ll get to it, but I don’t need it right now.”
If only they…
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