The LinkedIn Personal Trainer

With a second title of “These online polls are tricky…”

I thought it might be interesting to start the year off with an assessment of how people felt about their current employment situation.

And what better way to do that than take a poll, right?

Apparently most people are currently looking for a new opportunity – but asking for two responses on a poll is perhaps too tricky for internet users. Come along and have a look at the results with me…

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This is an exciting day – a third party has released a game application for LinkedIn.

I know steadfast users have been waiting to farm through LinkedIn just like they do in Facebook, or solve some crossword type puzzle, or even play a gangster style game, so this is a much anticipated release…

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Let’s talk about some LinkedIn advice that I’ve seen others offer – connecting to people you compete against.

And I’m not meaning complementary services, situations where you’ve partnered in the past, or best friends where you’ve both entered the same field – I mean the people that will take bread off your plate.

You’d think keeping them at a distance would be the smart thing to do…

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Not mine – but words I hear often enough.

This phrase, or something like, is currently the number one comment or email topic I receive. It has been enough to push me into several articles about the subject – and apparently one more.

It isn’t advice I like to give out, but if you’ve had enough of LinkedIn, this is the article for you.

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One thing’s for certain, people are either optimistic or pessimistic about the economy for this coming year.

There’s no middle ground. Things will either get better – or worse…

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Let’s take a moment to ring out 2011 and look back at some of the most read articles for the year.

It’s been an interesting one with the release of The Revised LinkedIn Personal Trainer and the public stock offering from LinkedIn. (The later of which didn’t make much of an impact here…)

It’s hard to compare an article written in January against an article written in November – the one’s just been around a whole lot longer to attract attention. So I’ve used a bit of a weighting to try to factor that in.

And so – here they are – the top ten articles from 2011…

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I’ve been regularly asked “Can I poll just my group on LinkedIn?” and have had to respond “no” – before today;-)

LinkedIn has linked the polling application to groups and now you can.

It’s not as nice as sliced break, but it’s better than it was…

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If you follow any of the mainstream media about LinkedIn you’ve probably been hounded to “remove these overused words from your profile!”

Please allow me to set your mind at easy – there’s no reason to worry.

I’d be happy if any one of you tells me you’ve spent time on your profile and used half of those words!

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