LinkedIn rolled out another new feature this week and I found it worth more than a few minutes of my time. It’s called LinkedIn Skills, and within LinkedIn’s powerful social networking tool, you can now conduct a search and produce
Learning to Love LinkedIn Tip #10
My #10 and final tip for 2010? Read this blog post titled, “20 LinkedIn Case Studies for Personal Branding” from Kyle Lacy. I spotted it on the Personal Branding Blog. I’m grateful that Kyle culled these stories and saved me
Learning to Love LinkedIn Tip #9
If you’re a business owner (big or small), and didn’t know you could create a Company Profile on LinkedIn, I’m here to tell you you can and it’s time! You don’t have to be a Fortune 500 or even Inc.
Learning to Love LinkedIn Tip #8
When I worked on-site in a business and market development role for a client in 2008 I had 2 monitors on my desk. The first had Outlook and a browser open with tabs for Salesforce.com, Gmail, and whatever else I
Learning to Love LinkedIn Tip #7
Maybe it’s the many years I spent in market research and/or business intelligence that made me so data driven, but I rarely react to anything without doing some research first. Where do I start? I use LinkedIn to conduct research
Learning to Love LinkedIn Tip #6
If you haven’t set up a PUBLIC profile on LinkedIn, it’s time. And since the system generates a random URL for your profile, you definitely want to change it to something more coherent as well as search engine optimized. For
Learning to Love LinkedIn Tip #5
If you can’t find a LinkedIn group that matches your needs, just create one of your own! It’s a fairly easy process and one where most of the work is actually done before you even create the group within LinkedIn.
Learn to Love LinkedIn Tip #4
As a marketer, executive, sales type or talent acquisition pro, it’s always important to know your competition. Well, the same thing applies to your job search. How can you do easily do this? Start “following” the company of your dreams
Learning to Love LinkedIn Tip #3
LinkedIn is a great tool for doing follow up after meeting someone at an event, for coffee or when you’ve exchanged business cards after a long flight back from the east coast. I often send LinkedIn invites as my follow
Learning to Love LinkedIn Tip #2
Don’t wait for folks to initiate a request to be introduced to your other contacts. Review your contact list regularly looking for introductions of potential value to your key connections. One good way is to offer to intro them to
Learn to Love LinkedIn Tip #1
Make a practice of regularly scanning the LinkedIn status updates of your network in order to keep an eye out for opportunities, expressions of interest or stated needs where you might be able to offer help. I note needs like: