Linkedinformed Podcast. The Linkedin Show

Welcome to another episode in what has been a difficult week for LinkedIn and many of its members. I have two main topics to discuss this week; LinkedIn seize control of LinkedInLocal events LinkedIn had a meltdown this week with millions of users discovering that their profiles were invisible!

Welcome to episode 243, this week I want to return to the subject of native LinkedIn video. It’s been a while since I covered this and the techniques for this type of post has developed somewhat. I also have some interesting analaysis to share with you on the content in my hoe page feed. But first… Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week Are we now going to get Brand Ambassadors on LinkedIn? Oh please no! LinkedIn top voice and video creator String Nguyen has signed up with a video service and now much of her posts are boring promos! Microsoft and Adobe strengthen partnership to take on Salesforce using LinkedIn   Feed Analysis For the rest go to  http://linkedinformed.com/episode243

Welcome to a new episode of LinkedInformed. It's been a very slow week for news about LinkedIn so I thought I would take the opportunity to focus on the subject of content and specifically the type of posts that typically attract comments and likes and therefore have greater reach. For more go to  http://linkedinformed.com/episode242/

Welcome to this weeks show. So who do you follow on LinkedIn and why? I’m not talking about who you connect with, that should be for different reasons (even though you do then follow them) but those people on LinkedIn that you purposely follow with the intention of seeing their activity, posts and articles in your feed. Have you got a clear strategy or is it based on ad-hoc seeing ‘something good’ from someone and then following them’?

Welcome to a new episode and this week I will be focussing on a subject that I haven’t covered before on the podcast – Employer branding and it’s close cousin, employee advocacy. If you are not interested in recruiting or working in HR then this might be an episode to skip but I do know there are plenty of listeners who do have a keen interest in using their company page for employer branding purposes and the activities of some of their employees for employee advocacy purposes. For more information go to https://linkedinformed.com/episode240

Welcome to a new episode, this week we are back to talking about LinkedIn company pages.....but with a difference! More of that later but as always firstly....... Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week LinkedIn Updates Sales Navigator, Gets Closer to Salesforce LinkedIn announces the rebuild of three core talent tools to one platform LinkedIn debuts LinkedIn Live, a new live video broadcast service

Welcome to episode 238. I really struggled to think of a title for this episode because unlike most weeks, no one subject dominates! That said, I have a lot to talk about in this episode. Firstly, due to a family bereavement, I will not be producing an episode next week but will be back the week after. For the remaining notes go to https://linkedinformed.com/episode238

Welcome to a new episode, this week I want to focus on attempting to answer one of the most common and complex questions I get about LinkedIn….Premium accounts – are they worth it? More of that later…… Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week New Ways to Keep a Pulse on the Companies You Care About Five Things We Learned from Microsoft’s Earnings Introducing Interest Targeting LinkedIn Articles versus LinkedIn Posts/Updates Could it be that ‘Trending content in your area’ might actually be paid ads! Listener Mark Lee got in touch with this message “I saw a post on my home page yesterday. Linkedin was showing it to me allegedly because it was ‘Trending in London’. This was odd for two reasons. Firstly it contained a link to a newspaper article (so encouraged me to leave the Linkedin platform). The other reason it was odd was that the article was not able to be viewed by anyone outside the USA. So why was it trending in London? I don’t think it was. But equally, why would a foreign newspaper (or anyone else) sponsor

Welcome to a new episode, this week is very different as the majority of this show will be dedicated to a talk that I'm giving this week on LinkedIn visibility and posting techniques. But first I wanted to highlight three posts that each deserve a special mention, all for different reasons. Go to http://linkedinformed.com/episode236/ for the more

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great break over the Christmas holiday. I had an ‘enjoyable at times and stressful at times’ break and as I  decided to completely switch off from all work matters, it has been a busy last 2 weeks catching up on everything. The main subject this week is empathy. If you are a long time listener then you may recall that I covered this previously in episode 122. I’m aware that many of you have only started listening to the show more recently and many don’t listen to every episode so I decided to cover it again…mainly because it is such an important subject! More of that later….. Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week Lessons from my Linkedin experiment 2018 The Contrepreneur interview with Mike Winnet LinkedIn Censored A Pro-Democracy Activist’s Profile In China LinkedIn now requires phone number verification for all users in China Facebook investigates ‘deceptive’ election operation backed by Reid Hoffman For more, go to http://linkedinformed.com/episode235

Welcome to the Christmas edition of the podcast. This will be the last episode this year so let me wish you all a fantastic Christmas break and an exciting a prosperous new year. Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week For the rest of the notes go to http://linkedinformed.com/episode234/

Welcome to episode 233 and this week I’m looking forward and planning for next year. What is your plan for LinkedIn next year? Hopefully, I can stimulate a few ideas for you in this episode. Before that though….. Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week. I was fascinated to see this post go viral this week. It’s not applicable for post of the week because I don’t think it’s an especially great video post but it is worth examing why it went viral. To read more go to http://linkedinformed.com/episode233/

Welcome to episode 232. This week the focus is all about my favourite subject….communication. If there is one aspect of using LinkedIn that fascinates me the most, it’s the art of communicating effectively. It’s also one area that most people get wrong according to my homepage feed and probably yours too! So you can imagine how excited I was when I recently met Kim Arnold, a communications and marketing expert! So this weeks episode is focussed on a chat I recently had with Kim about how we communicate on LinkedIn and how we could do it better! but first….. Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week Microsoft And LinkedIn Can Revolutionize Retail! LinkedIn Crossed the Privacy Line with Targeted Facebook Advertising The State of LinkedIn Profiles Today & Making Yours Even Stronger   Mike Winnet does it again and gets more comments on this spoof copy post!

Whilst the title for this episode is about posting, I actually have two main topics to cover this week. Posting for Engagement – A case study A closer look at new LinkedIn Events I also have a ‘not’ post of the week as well as a post of the week! In addition, we cover the following; LinkedIn Stories New Boolean operators UK top voices Three new features LinkedIn Live video rumours

Welcome to the 230th episode. This week I cover; LinkedIn Events Do pods violate the user agreement? LinkedIn Top Voices 2018 Several new features Rumour - LinkedIn Stories! LinkedIn Pages

Welcome back to another show. This week I’m chatting with Andy Foote about the talk given by a LinkedIn executive called ‘creator-side optimization and incentives in social networks’. This was a very interesting a quite revealing insight into how LinkedIn adjusted their algorithm earlier this year to counter what they described as a ‘perverse incentive’ where superstar content producers were being given too much visibility on our homepage feeds

LinkedIn is changing rapidly! This week I focus on 9 important changes LinkedIn have made since the last episode. New design for WVYP Articles saving on desktop Group posting from Homepage New free premium trial offer Articles 'series' pilot scheme New setting to make 'Follow' the default on your profile LinkedIn update 'Feed ranking optimization' Less information on LinkedIn emails Pilot test for the reintroduction of LinkedIn events feature More information at http://linkedinformed.com/episode228

This week I interview Kurt Shaver from Vengreso about the challenges of social selling and using LinkedIn in a corporate environment

A couple of weeks ago I had a very interesting conversation with an experienced LinkedIn user about native video posts. They post regularly and get fantastic results but they have yet to do a video post. When I asked them why they couldn’t really answer. We explored this in more detail and agreed that it came down to two main factors; Technical barriers Concerned that others would think they look stupid   This troubled me but I put it down to an isolated experience, then last week I had almost exactly the same conversation with someone else! The final straw came this week when I delivered a follow-up training session and during my preparation (where I analyse the delegates activity since the last session) I discovered that, despite plenty of text and image posts, nobody had attempted a native video post. I have covered video before but given the issues people seem to be having, I thought I would focus on this in this weeks episode.

This week I respond to a post by Richard Moore about the apparent lack of 'Content Creators' on LinkedIn in the UK. What exactly is he referring to and how do we define great content? That plus a few interesting things I saw this week about LinkedIn. More info at LinkedInformed.com