Linkedinformed Podcast. The Linkedin Show

Welcome to episode 192 and a very merry Christmas to all of you. There has been very little news about LinkedIn this week but I did native the following two related articles; Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week What we got right — and terribly wrong — in our 2017 predictions The 50 big ideas for 2018 LinkedIn are, as always, keeping very tight lipped about their plans for 2018 so I thought it would be fun to take a stab at what I think the likely trends for LinkedIn in 2018 will be. LinkedIn in 2018 Increased use of #Hashtags. Hashtags re-emerged in 2017 but next year they will become mainstream and ‘trending hashtags’ will become an important feature that we will all be using extensively by the end of the year. Livestream Video. This one has been on LinkedIn’s roadmap for a while and I predict 2018 will be the year it is finally implemented. Native video will be fully rolled out by the end of the first quarter and I believe Livestream video will start to become a feature (mobile only) by the middle of 2018. A