After several years of active involvement with blogging, social networking and what we now call social media, I am very conscious of the need, in the business context, to have some strategies and systems in place, firstly to retain our sanity and then to achieve our business objectives. We also need, from time to time…
For first level connections on LinkedIn to happen, I need to first have some form of personal contact In all the time I’ve been on groups where LinkedIn is discussed, including the Linked Bloggers group I co-moderate, the great staple of discussion has always been what some refer to as the Quality vs Quantity debate….
Why it makes sense to personalize your invitations to connect on LinkedIn When I decided after Christmas that I wanted to have a clear inbox on LinkedIn before the New Year arrived, I clearly underestimated the scope of the task. I finished up spending the better part of a day sorting it all out, dealing…
The third in this series of LinkedIn Tips is to Give Useful Recommendations. The Recommendations feature is one of the distinctive elements of LinkedIn, whereby members can provide comments on one another’s capabilities, experience of working together and so on. It is a free-form system with just one field where your “recommender” can write a…
This second post in the series of tips on making the best possible use of LinkedIn recommends that you adopt from the outset a strategic approach to linking to other people, both in terms of those you invite to connect and those who invite you. That means that, before you invite anyone to connect with…
This is the first in a series of weekly posts in which I’ll be sharing some tips on how to use LinkedIn to good effect. This week’s tip is about having a well-crafted, up to date profile. And that includes paying close attention to keywords. The idea of a series of LinkedIn tips has been…