Receiving Invitations from Unknown Persons?
Receiving invitations to connect from people you don't you know? If your strategy is to link to as many people as possible, then you may accept an invitation from just about anyone. LinkedIn, the...
View ArticleUse Viral Marketing to Market Yourself
Viral marketing is a powerful concept that is used by many companies with much success. Yahoo! uses viral marketing in emails sent by Yahoo! Mail users who use its basic email service: Every time a...
View ArticleFinding "Hidden" Colleagues in LinkedIn
Travis K posted the following useful tip to the My LinkedIn Power Forum Yahoo! Group: I couldn't find anything on this in the archives, but my apologies if someone has noted this before:Problem: The...
View ArticleHow To Email All of Your Direct LinkedIn Contacts
LinkedIn provides an easy way to send an email to all of your contacts, even ones that are not registered in LinkedIn.Log into LinkedIn.Click "My Profile" tab.Click orange area which says "Recently...
View ArticleWhich Network: LinkedIn, Ryze, Ecademy, Soflow, or openBC?
So you've heard about and maybe even registered for LinkedIn, Ryze, Ecademy, Soflow, or other networks. Why should you register for one and not another?If you have unlimited time and the interest to do...
View ArticleMaximum Reach with Minimal LinkedIn Introductions
A little project I'm working on right now is raising awareness about a company alumni Yahoo! Group that I co-moderate. With great success, I'm using LinkedIn to inform former employees about the...
View ArticleWhy Start a LinkedIn Group?
If you're a member of an organization of any type, and the organization does not yet have a LinkedIn group, here are some reasons why you may want to start such a group (as opposed to just trying to...
View ArticleA Potential Drawback to Connecting to Superconnectors
LinkedIn superconnectors are people who have connected to very many people, including people they don't know personally, to enable themselves and the people to whom they are connected to be able to...
View ArticleMotivating People to Use LinkedIn
If you're trying to motivate other to use LinkedIn, you may find as I have that different people require different pitches to get them interested.I find that people seeking jobs are the easiest to...
View ArticleBuild Your Business with Liz Ryan's Ten LinkedIn Tips
Liz Ryan of WorldWit recently shared with the Yahoo! Group MyLinkedInPowerForum the following ten ways to build your business, to which I've added bracketed introductory sentences for some of the...
View ArticleAvoiding Discrimination in LinkedIn
Are you missing out on employment opportunities because of your name? Studies in the United States and France have shown a remarkable difference in being contacted due to name alone.In the U.S., the...
View ArticleNew OpenLink Messages and OpenLink Network
Today, LinkedIn rolled out two new features for premium service subscribers: OpenLink Messages and OpenLink Network.OpenMessages offers a way to pay to receive messages from anyone in the LinkedIn...
View ArticleGrowing LinkedIn Groups for Alumni
Lately I’ve taken a little time to increase the number of people in one of my alma mater’s LinkedIn Groups for alumni. My motivation to do so is to:1) Increase the number of people already in LinkedIn...
View ArticleUsing LinkedIn To Get A Specific Position
How can one use LinkedIn to find employment? Here are some ideas I posted to the Yahoo! Group MyLinkedInPowerForum in response to a query from a recent college graduate looking for a position related...
View ArticleSegregating Your Network Connections by Strength
Here are some tips to maximize your reach in LinkedIn without doing any of the following:Compromising the strength of your LinkedIn network.Working against LinkedIn's intended usage. Breaking...
View ArticleLinkedIn Public Directory and Nicknames
In my LinkedIn profile, my name was listed as Richard (Rick) Upton, which was useful when LinkedIn didn't know that Rick is a nickname for Richard: Users could search for either Rick Upton or Richard...
View ArticleSearching For A Job With LinkedIn
Konstantin Guericke, Co-Founder and Vice President of LinkedIn, posted the following job search suggestions to My LinkedIn Power Forum:Connect with former bosses, people who worked for you, fellow...
View ArticleBreaking Connections
LinkedIn now offers a way to break a connection without having to contact customer service. So if you ever regretted sending an invitation to connect to someone who accepted your invitation, or...
View ArticleGuy Kawasaki's 10 (Plus) Ways to Use LinkedIn
Guy Kawasaki gives 11 ways to use LinkedIn to your advantage in his post "Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn". (Yes, he delivers more than he promises in the title.) He's got some interesting insights into ways...
View ArticleSchmoozing vs. The Shared Activity Principle
Brian Uzzi and Shannon Dunlap's article "How To Build Your Network" in the Harvard Business Review gives some great insight into how one can build a strong and diverse personal network. This article...
View ArticleFix for Not Being Able to Send Introductions
I am once again able to send 15 introductions with my business account after archiving received introductions that were marked with a status of "Pending".Here's what happened: I complained to LinkedIn...
View ArticleWarning – Ignoring LinkedIn Could Hurt Your Career
"Warning – Ignoring LinkedIn Could Hurt Your Career" has a number of good tips in it.
View ArticleSuppress LinkedIn Profile Updates from Being Broadcast
Donna Sapolin has a great article about how by default LinkedIn broadcasts changes to your profile to all of your connections, something which may not be beneficial to you if you are updating your...
View ArticleLinkedIn Only a Tool for within the Larger Networking Process
LinkedIn can be a powerful tool for use within part of the networking process, but is certainly not applicable to the entire process.Seth Levine has written an extremely useful short series of blog...
View ArticleAssociating Your Email Addresses with Your Profile
Ideally you only want to have one account in LinkedIn, and, if you have multiple email addresses, they should all be associated with the same LinkedIn account.If you don't associate all of your email...
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