Endorsements

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Reaching for 100%

Posted by stylock on 14 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Connections, Endorsements, Profiles, Ways to Use LinkedIn

I just answered a question on LinkedIn about adding recommendations to add 5% towards that “100% complete” figure…

If it helps motivate you great, if it doesn’t - ignore it.

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Guilt Is Something You Give Yourself

Posted by stylock on 27 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Endorsements

Shane Schick titled his article “LinkedIn Guilt: The new social networking disease” over on IT World Canada, and suggests that there’s issues related to asking for recommendations.

I think he’s overplaying the issue, but go ahead, read his article and come back to this window;-)

I’ll explain…

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Endorsing Who?

Posted by stylock on 27 May 2008 | Tagged as: Endorsements

None of my regular readers will ever face this issue, but I’ll talk about it anyway…-)

One of the more interesting questions I’ve seen is from an individual who was asked to endorse someone they didn’t know. Their question was - should they, and also - why would someone ask like that?

Well, if you’re going to connect to people you don’t know…

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Memorable Endorsements

Posted by stylock on 24 May 2008 | Tagged as: Endorsements

A LinkedIn endorsement says that not only do you know and trust the individual, you recommend them to others - a powerful statement.

So don’t just tell the world what a great professional Tom Smith is, tell them the unique thing about Tom that makes him special.

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