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Receiving Unwelcome LinkedIn Mail

Posted by Steve Tylock on 26 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: About the Service, Etiquette

“Steve, what’s up? Fred”

Great to get – unless you don’t happen to know Fred…

Then it’s an annoyance.

Michael asked in an email if I’d address this issue – and that sounds like fun, so let’s look at it.

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LinkedIn Hiring

Posted by Steve Tylock on 23 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: About the Service

Here on the LinkedInPersonalTrainer.com, I thought you might enjoy some good news for the week – LinkedIn appears ready to fill over seven dozen positions across the world.

Good for them I say;-)

I took a quick look and will show you where.

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Presenting The LinkedIn Personal Trainer

Posted by Steve Tylock on 21 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: About the Service

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That’s right, another one of my ‘doh moments this week. Follow along for a laugh, and to find out how…

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LinkedIn Partner Message

Posted by Steve Tylock on 18 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: About the Service

Received my very first “LinkedIn Partner Message” – and thought it worth talking about.

It’s not really an important message to me, but if we don’t pull it up for a moment to discuss, people could be threatening to cancel their memberships..

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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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Bloomberg Notices LinkedIn Offers Paid Services Four Years Later!

Posted by Steve Tylock on 18 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: About the Service

It must be a slow news week, because I just can’t make out the reasoning behind the latest article on Bloomberg.com about LinkedIn.

For me this ranks right up there with displaying poll results that skew towards some wildly controversial result (And I can’t wait till the end of the month to comment on the current poll – please check it out to the right and submit an answer if you would;-)

Let’s have a look at this so-called news…

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Three Reasons To Ignore Lists Of LinkedIn Top 10 Tips

Posted by Steve Tylock on 15 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: About the Service

So here’s a benefit of having joined twitter – I now see some of the things that other people forward;-)

And one in particular got to me, and inspired me to give you three good reasons to avoid “top 10 lists”.

Drum roll please…

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When Accidents Happen…

Posted by Steve Tylock on 04 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: About the Service

You’ve experienced “system failures” before, right?

Disk drives fail, systems crash, services stop working…

It’s a pain, and we all learn to deal with it in our own special ways.

But once in a while, things go really bad – and then you’ve got to have a backup plan.  You’ve got one of those for LinkedIn, right?

Because if you were Dennis, who recently wrote “My LinkedIn account completely disappeared, I have to rebuild my connections all over again“, you’d be all set with a backup plan…

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Weekdays More Popular With LinkedIn Users

Posted by Steve Tylock on 01 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: About the Service

More users spend time at LinkedIn.com during the week – Monday through Friday – than over the weekend. It makes sense that this professional resource fits in during professional time more so than personal time.

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

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