January 2010

Monthly Archive

Five LinkedIn Articles From The Archive You Might Have Missed

Steve Tylock 28 Jan 2010 | : 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

Steve Tylock 22 Jan 2010 | : 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

Steve Tylock 21 Jan 2010 | : 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

Steve Tylock 19 Jan 2010 | : 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

Steve Tylock 14 Jan 2010 | : 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?

Steve Tylock 12 Jan 2010 | : 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

Steve Tylock 08 Jan 2010 | : 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!

Steve Tylock 06 Jan 2010 | : 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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Adding an RSS Feed to your LinkedIn Group News

Steve Tylock 04 Jan 2010 | : Groups

Happy 2010 to everyone – let’s start the year out with some practical advice.

After the LIPSO post, the last of 2009, a reader asked if I would drop article summaries into their LinkedIn Group.  With a bit of investigating, I decided I couldn’t commit to that, but did suggest that the reader just add this site’s RSS feed to the Group’s News site – and then the short opening to an article would appear automatically.

Her response – could I outline how to do that;-)

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