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Any Instances of Fake LinkedIn Email?

Posted by Steve Tylock on 16 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Outside LinkedIn

I’ve been reading on some supposed email that uses the look of LinkedIn invitations to get by spam/threat filters.

Have you actually seen any?!?

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Majority of US LinkedIn Families Include a Recent Immigrant!

Posted by Steve Tylock on 01 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Outside LinkedIn

Fear not gentle readers, with July’s “patriotic” poll results in, we can see that more LinkedIn users have recent immigrants in their family tree than not.

This author is making no comment or prediction on immigration policy except to point out some interesting data points and of course the results of last month’s poll

So let’s get on with this…

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LinkedIn And Sexuality

Posted by Steve Tylock on 16 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Outside LinkedIn

Results from a recent Harris poll caught my attention this morning, and I know my readers are always ready for shocking results – and why should I keep from passing them along just because someone else did the polling!-)

Read on to find out what the poll is saying – and not saying – about the topic.

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Chrome Browser Users Most Responsive!

Posted by Steve Tylock on 01 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Outside LinkedIn

2011 is half over and I’ve got the scoop on the most explosive poll results of the year – users of the Chrome browser respond much more often than other browser users!

Yes, you heard me – Chrome users responded twice as often as other browser users, inflating their results.

I know you’d like to see how I can say this, so read on…

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Falling Into A Social Media Hole

Posted by Steve Tylock on 23 May 2010 | Tagged as: Outside LinkedIn

So here it is – a good week after I intended to post on the LinkedIn Personal Trainer Blog – and I can’t really explain what happened.

It’s always interesting when life intrudes on good intentions, but there’s got to be a lesson here somewhere…

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What Non-Solicit Means

Posted by Steve Tylock on 26 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Outside LinkedIn

Following up The LinkedIn Personal Trainer’s article on law enforcement with one 0n lawsuits – an ingenious way to get back into the mix;-)

Apparently LinkedIn activity has been brought up in a lawsuit alleging breach of a non-solicitation clause, and I thought you might enjoy having a look…

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LinkedIn and the Law

Posted by Steve Tylock on 16 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: About the Service, Outside LinkedIn, Ways to Use LinkedIn

Using LinkedIn for fraud?

Twittering about where you are when you tell others you’re somewhere else?

Well guess what – that may come back to bite you in the proverbial donkey;-)

The AP is reporting on EFF releasing information obtained under FOIL about the FBI’s use of social networks.  If you put it out there, expect that it could come into play.

But there is an aspect that warrants some concern…

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TLPT Readers – Hesitant on Technology

Posted by Steve Tylock on 02 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Outside LinkedIn

February’s poll results are in – most readers of The LinkedIn Personal Trainer wait to adopt technology.

That’s right – 73% are middle of the roaders and wait to try technology until after it’s been around a bit.

Let’s see what else…

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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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Using the Web Entries on a LinkedIn Profile to Boost Page Rank

Posted by Steve Tylock on 23 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Outside LinkedIn, Profiles

Let’s talk about search results today – and how you can influence your web site’s search rank through the use of your LinkedIn profile.

This is a bit technical and of importance mostly to those that want to get their web site ranked higher, so I’ll understand if you’re not interested – but if you’ve got a web site, read on…-)

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