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Welcome to episode 124, this week I’m relaxing in Italy on vacation so I thought I would pre-record this episode of questions that I have been asked recently. Below are the 5 questions I covered in this episode, you will need to listen to the audio for the answers. Question 1 I recently decided to get rid of some dead wood connections, people that I'll never speak to that I either don't remember connecting with, or when I first joined and didn't really know what I was doing. I managed to get rid of 2000 people, mostly overseas, and now my news feed is looking better, and more relevant. I have noticed one significant change though, when I had around 5,000 connections, I'd get maybe one person sending me connections requests every week, they could be anything from people I actually recruit for, or SEO specialists wanted to sell to me. Now however, since dropping a couple of thousand people, I'm getting about 8 per day, which seems very strange. Do you know if the less connections you have, the more you appear

Welcome to episode 123, I’m back in my office this week with plenty to talk about. Interesting stuff I saw this week LinkedIn are in the process of rolling out a new feature that automatically makes you a follower of someone when you invite them to connect. If that member subsequently rejects your invitation by selecting ‘ignore’ then you will cease to be a follower. Also Interview with Jeff Weiner where he refers to some skills endorsements having a greater value than others. New profile views limit warning. Does this mean that LinkedIn are now tracking views by the IP address used? This could be a problem to those using Google searching as a workaround to the commercial use limit.

Welcome to episode 122, the weather has been amazing this week so I thought I would venture out and record the show in one of my favourite spots in Delamere forest…I think the BBC call these things an ‘outside broadcast (OB)’! I tend do this once or twice a year as I’m really unproductive when I try to stick behind my desk in hot weather! Using LinkedIn with Empathy Some people are naturally empathetic and some find it more of a challenge, I believe it is a great strength to have when using LinkedIn. Definition The ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation (Cambridge dictionary) Some people just have an instinct to know how someone else would feel whereas others need to stop, take a step back and think about it. Whichever you are, it pays to practice empathy in social media and especially on LinkedIn. In this episode I talk about some examples of where empathy can be important on LinkedIn; Invitations to connect Liking or comme

Welcome to episode 121, we are back after a break last week which was due to work commitments requiring me to be out of the office every day in Ireland. Interesting stuff I saw this week Google, LinkedIn strike stunning 'grand bargain' for property swap in Mountain View, Sunnyvale LinkedIn Top Attractors - UK list It would appear that the 3 most subscribed Pulse channels are now all Chinese language channels I was interviewed for another podcast this week. Andy Paul interviewed me for his Accelerate podcast which is a show for sales professionals; How to Use LinkedIn to Grow Sales. With Mark Williams. #198 LinkedIn profiles are just too boring! I want to encourage everyone to realise just how important your profile is and that, by just listing boring facts you are doing nothing to impress the reader…on the contrary, you might be sending them to sleep! Why not take a look at your summary and try to write something more interesting about yourself, something about you in a professional context but something th

Interesting things I saw this week Following on from the news that LinkedIn are now in forcing the 30,000 connections limit it has now been announced that all connection above the limit will be converted to followers This interesting thing is that for the first time LinkedIn have admitted that large networks cause them problems. Microsoft takeover. I was at a TEDx Event over the weekend and one of the speakers was Steve Clayton  from Microsoft. It was interesting to hear him say that Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella is much more collaborative than his predecessors. Perhaps this could be a positive sign for LinkedIn? LinkedIn published posts and Pulse. It seems that the new format for published posts has now been rolled out to everyone with many people contacting me to ask about the new format. The Pulse page no longer shows under the Interests menu so you have to go to your home page feed and change is the order to recent Alternatively you could do what I did which is to create a bookmark for the Pulse page. If

Working with Ali Ali is short for Algorithm, in this case LinkedIn’s algorithm. Whether we like it or not LinkedIn is constantly collating data about us. Which groups we join and which conversations we get involved in, what skills we have and how often they are endorsed (and by whom), which companies we follow, who we connect with and how much we interact with them. Ali also measures which status updates and publish posts we click, like or comment on. It may sound creepy but that's just how things are in social media and the wider Internet. Understanding this and understanding how to use it to our advantage is one of the key aspects to been successful on LinkedIn LinkedIn can only react to actions, it can’t (as yet) interpret feelings or opinions - just actions. I was reminded of this recently when someone contacted me to complain about the amount of inappropriate posts and status updates they were seen on their homepage. When I asked them what they were doing about it, their answer was that they were comment

The Microsoft Acquisition  Welcome to episode 118 of the LinkedInformed podcast at the end of a truly historic week for LinkedIn. As you would expect I am going to concentrate all of this episode on evaluating Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn. Advantages for Microsoft Entry into the social media space. An area they have neglected to get involved with previously which was beginning to look like a serious weakness. An opportunity to increase sales of Office 365 via extensive integration with LinkedIn’s functionality. Dynamics (Their CRM solution) will benefit the most from this acquisition and potentially allow it to become the market leader (currently Salesforce). Content from LinkedIn publishing allowing greater advertising opportunities. Big data. Rich information about people and their online behaviour. Advantages for LinkedIn $26 billion! Greater resources to enable new products such as Profinder to be launched and rapidly expanded. $26 billion! Use of Microsoft’s massive cloud infrastructure. A way

LinkedIn : Too many to-do’s to do Very interesting document outlining why LinkedIn are a bad investment from an Equity Research firm. Here are their main 5 reasons; (1) Lack of key functionality in its flagship Voyager app. (2) Relevance of proposed job openings or “Sponsored Updates” hasn’t improved. (3) A slow ramp to get the right content on lynda.com to make it more attractive to Enterprises. (4) High penetration of Hiring Solutions – translating into slowing growth in FY16. (5) The technical immaturity of Sales Navigator. Other highlights; • New company pages will provide salary data and allow for anonymous employee reviews (similar to Glassdoor). This could provide LinkedIn with a "Tricky balance” to find as many of these organisations are their biggest clients! • The SMB Recruiter product will be slow growth and likely to have a high cost of sales. • 20% of LinkedIn members are students. • Advertising solutions will be opening up their API to third-party operators. • New members are less engaged. • Les

Hey! We have a new website! The url is still the same www.linkedinformed.com. Let me know what you think. It's Linkedinformed Episode 116.   News   Changes to LinkedIn How big should your network be? You Want More Business? So Get on the Phone!         Interesting Stuff I saw this week    How LinkedIn Is Able to Consistently          Increase Pricing                                         'Social worth' and creditworthiness: Need                  loans? Just raise your popularity level on                    LinkedIN   Question: "Recently, I have noticed my profile views are not good as they used to be. My target keywords are "Engineering Manager" and "Engineering Director". In the past when I search for those phrases my profile was always number one listed. Lately is buried deep down in the list.

Welcome to this weeks episode where we continue the discussion with Rosie O'Hara we started in in episode 110 regarding 'Words that change minds'. In this show we talk about; How to reply to accepted invitations What sort of message to send to someone who has viewed your profile The dangers of commenting without taking time out to calm down! The recent 'Gracegate' issue where a senior banking executive causes a storm by posting a screenshot of a comment made that she found offensive. Vote for the podcast I would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes out of your busy day to vote for me in the UK podcast awards. This is a Facebook poll, click here and scroll down until you find LinkedInformed (and Winbusinessin if possible) and vote. As always you can find links, images and everything else mentioned in this episode at LinkedInformed.com Thanks Until next week....  

Welcome to Episode 114 Would you like to buy someone’s login details for LinkedIn? How do you feel about someone else's buying your login details for LinkedIn? This week’s 114 episode we talk about security. LinkedIn Security Millions of hacked LinkedIn IDs advertised 'for sale’ LinkedIn’s statement about the issue Test your email address here I would really appreciate it if you took a few secs to vote for the podcast by clicking on the link below and scrolling down until you find LinkedInformed  and also Winbusinessin. Click here to vote for the show: http://bit.ly/voteforLinkedinformed Interesting stuff I saw this week  LinkedIn Buys Run Hop, Seeks to Make Feeds More Engaging  LinkedIn help refugees find jobs in Sweden Why I Write On LinkedIn - And It’s Probably Not Why You Think I Do Cool Thing This week’s cool things are 1Password and Dashlane. Store all your passwords, PIN codes, documents, credit cards and more. Automatically log in on every website and every device. AFQ This week’s question comes

How would you feel if when you joined a company they asked you to changed the name of your LinkedIn profile from your name to the company name and when you left that company, you are then required to close that account down? This week I talk with Greg Cooper about an article from a top law firm that suggests the above as best practice!

Welcome to episode 112. Investors are now speaking more positively about LinkedIn Shares after a solid performance in Q1 2016. For this episode I’m going to dig deeper into those results and find out what else we can learn about where LinkedIn are heading.

Welcome to episode 111, more of the mobile dilemma later but I want to start with an ongoing issue that everyone seems to be talking about;   It’s NOT Facebook!   LinkedIn is clearly different to Facebook in that it is a business & professional network but it’s not different in that it is a network of people and it’s social! Rather than complain about inappropriate posts wouldn’t it be better to pay more attention to those connections who are posting more interesting content and building stronger relationships with them? I saw a comment this week which I thought hit the nail on the head;   How about you focus on what you do, what value you bring, who you help, who you identify, contact in an authentic not all-about-you-and-what-you-want way, meet in person, build rapport, work out how you might help each other. The key is to understand, truly understand what you want out of being on LinkedIn (& out of Business/Professional networking in general) and then... realize it's all about people, other people.

Welcome to a new episode. This week I thought it was time for a change in format and it's been quite a while since I did an interview so please let me introduce Rosie O'Hara. Rosie talks about her experience of how the words we use (specifically on LinkedIn) can have a significant effect on how others react to us when we send invitations to connect and other LinkedIn messages.

Welcome to a new episode of the LinkedInformed podcast. I seem to have had a frustrating week with LinkedIn - glitches and weird mystery settings have somewhat go in the way of productivity!   LinkedIn Typo’s   I was working with a client this week and spotted several spelling mistakes in their LinkedIn profile. This person is highly intelligent and definitely knows how to spell, The problem is they didn't take their time and pay attention to detail when writing their profile. This got me thinking about how common this might be so I conducted searches for some commonly misspelt words and here are the results;   Mangers (Managers)   Here are the companies with the most Mangers!   Catagory (Category)   Beleive (Believe)   And then there are plenty like this!!   Seriously though, it’s obviously easily done. Check your profile carefully, double check it and then get someone else to check it! You only get one chance to make a first impression with your profile, make sure it’s the right one!   The 5C Business Devel

Welcome to a new episode of the LinkedInformed podcast. I have had an exciting and rewarding week with the successful launch of mine you social selling and business development e-learning programme.   The 5C Business Development System is now for sale! ….and for a limited time it’s discounted by a massive 63%! I’m really proud of this course, I was looking at some of the earlier lessons and I actually started recording the videos 9 months ago! It’s taken a lot of work to get to this position and it doesn’t end here as I will need to update all the ‘settings’ lessons with the new design. The 5C system contains 5 modules as below; In total there are 65 videos covering every aspect of using LinkedIn as an effective business development tool. I’m very excited to see how people react to this course and I hope you can take advantage of the limited time launch price (just £146 but only for the next 7 days, then it will be £396). I am also giving away a free e-book to those who expressed an interest in the 5C System.

It’s been a very quiet week for LinkedIn, no news to report whatsoever, the bickering about Facebook type posts and inappropriate content continues of course but to be honest, I’m really bored of that now! LinkedIn have been sending out a survey which suggests that they might be considering having adverts in groups, not display ad’s but in the stream of ‘conversations’ - please no! We finally have new settings! The only news of any note is that the new settings design has finally arrived in my account, I’m going to write a full report that will be sent to subscribers of my LinkedIn updates service this weekend so if you haven’t already signed up, now is the time to do so! The 5C Business Development System is now for sale! ….and for a limited time it’s discounted by a massive 63%!   I’m really proud of this course, I was looking at some of the earlier lessons and I actually started recording the videos 9 months ago! It’s taken a lot of work to get to this position and it doesn’t end here as I will need to upd

Another LinkedIn week goes by and not much changes….the share price keeps dropping and I see numerous articles about the drop in standards and unprofessionalism of LinkedIn!……Tough times for Mr Weiner and his gang! As I have somewhat neglected your questions in recent episodes I thought I would focus on the AFQ section this week…..first a few interesting articles I read this week; This Is Why Shares of LinkedIn Are Way Down Today. It seems investors have really fallen out of love with LinkedIn and the share price continues to plummet…do they have a point? How Do I Master That Skill? LinkedIn, Markle Want To Help. LinkedIn introduce a new service called ‘Training Finder’ initially in Pheonix and Denver. An example of LinkedIn’s increased focus on training as part of their Economic Graph. How I Made $10,000 in One Month on LinkedIn (And You Can Too). This article is not what you think from the headline! It sounds like another ‘get rich quick’ piece but it’s actually a sensible and practical example of how to u

Hello and welcome to episode 105. It's great to finally be seeing signs that winter is behind us, I love the spring it's probably my favourite time of the year!   There have been quite a lot of interesting articles about LinkedIn this week so the news segment is somewhat longer than normal.   The articles I cover are;   The LinkedIn faith debate Bikinigate and the profile of Candice Galek Virgin flights will now have Lynda This designer has come up with an interesting new design for the LinkedIn app   I also mentioned about the changes to LinkedIn contacts and how the "How are you met" feature has been moved into the notes section.   LinkedIn are about to release a completely new look design to their settings page, it's clearly taking its design from the mobile app.   LinkedIn’s to do list   This week linkedIn's most popular feature ‘who viewed my profile’ broke down and at the time of recording it hadn't been fixed. I'm sure this feature will be fixed very soon but it got me thinking about all those areas