Linkedinformed Podcast. The Linkedin Show

Welcome to episode 165, this week it’s that old nugget again…Skills and their annoying little brother endorsements! But first…… Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week One third of respondents to a recent survey said they lie about themselves in their LinkedIn profiles Relay have now updated their LinkedIn cover templates LinkedIn Deprecates it’s Groups API Get Ready to Give Up on LinkedIn for Marketing - Good riddance! The New recommendations settings are awful! Notifications could be about to improve Has the new UI attracted a higher number of premium users? Research from Chris Zaharias would suggest so. Skills & Endorsements. A valuable feature or a waste of space? Skills have been with us for over 5 years now and they still frustrate me. What exactly is the point? Endorsements are even more irritating, a senseless action in my view but I know my views are not ones that everyone agrees with so I thought it worth exploring the real benefits of skills and endorsements. I searched the internet and found the