Are you a business owner or solopreneur looking for a mastermind group on steroids, intense one-on-one consulting sessions, a private focus group, and a seminar-gone-wild all wrapped into a 2-day live event taking place in a fabulous setting? Well, I’ve
2 Hidden Features For LinkedIn Skills & Expertise: Proficiency Level and Years of Experience
NOTE: Please read the Comments first to learn about the changes to the Skills & Expertise section. When you apply for a position or gig online via a company’s or staffing firm’s website, listing your skills and/or proficiencies is often
The New LinkedIn Profile: Why Your Summary Matters More Than Ever
With the recent changes to the LinkedIn profile causing a seismic shift in the social networking universe (kidding! totally exaggerating), I thought I’d take a minute to comment on one of the things that has now taken center stage as
4 Obscure LinkedIn Tips and Tricks For LinkedIn Experts
It seems like everybody and their brother is trying to position themselves as LinkedIn experts these days. Well, why not you? If you’re a career coach, sales trainer, business consultant or professional speaker offering programs on LinkedIn, you should probably
Conference Call: Top 5 LinkedIn Profile Tweaks to Boost Your Brand
Please join me for a FREE conference call on Thu, Aug 16 at 10 am PDT / 1 pm EDT. Here’s the skinny: The Top 5 LinkedIn Profile Tweaks to Boost Your Brand LinkedIn savant*, Sandy Jones-Kaminski (moi), and branding
What constitutes a complete LinkedIn profile?
Fact: LinkedIn users with complete profiles are 40 times more likely to receive opportunities through LinkedIn. (This is partly because complete profiles get ranked higher when someone does a search.) Fact: A recent Jobvite survey found that 93{60023c7b1960a5fb9dae172379ca3153ba00fa4679a2b03978f428523be766b5} of recruiters
Twitter is no longer speaking to LinkedIn, but LinkedIn is still speaking to Twitter
What’s the big whoop about the latest announcement re: the changes in Twitter’s policy of sharing tweets on LinkedIn? The official word from LinkedIn is below, and my take on this is that it’s a welcome user-experience change, and basically
Video preview: Look at faces, not devices if you want to make the most of your time at events or conferences
A few more tips I wanted to share in this preview of what was my first (and more interactive) session at the OHUG Global Conference in Las Vegas in June 2012: Making the Most of Your Time at OHUG 2012
What happens in Vegas doesn’t always have to stay in Vegas
Below is a link to a preview of my opening keynote session at the Oracle HCM User Group Global Conference 2012 in Las Vegas on June 20th. My preso included 10 of my practical (and proven!) tips for in-person networking at
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I can’t believe it was only 18 months ago that I stood in our kitchen in Seattle (we’d moved there from our hometown of Chicago) and asked my husband to give me 18 months to see what I could do
How to Cultivate Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn
Have you jumped on the personal brand wagon yet? Personal branding is still a hot topic, so I thought I’d use this post to share some of the ways that you can use LinkedIn to cultivate and reinforce your personal