Blogs About "LinkedIn"

Have you taken the time to really look at your LinkedIn Profile after all the changes LinkedIn phased in during 2012? Did you notice that your Specialties Section is missing from your LinkedIn Profile?  Did you notice that if you had a Specialties Section defined in your old profile that LinkedIn has added it to the bottom of your Summary Section.

In 2012, LinkedIn decided to phase out the Specialties Section in...

LinkedIn recommendations are useless…if not supported by a strategy. After tailoring LinkedIn profiles for professionals who have successfully attracted attention, I found that having a single objective when crafting your online presence and applying its essence within each section works best. LinkedIn recommendations are NO exception to this idea!

Susan Adams in her Forbes article, “Everything You Need To Know About LinkedIn...

Everybody does it. The minute they see the name of someone they want to know more about, they rush to LinkedIn. It’s the world’s database, and so very useful.  So useful, in fact, that to position yourself for business school or your next career step, you need to be LinkedIn savvy.

You need LinkedIn for two reasons – first, you can...

 

I'm spending a lot of my time volunteering and connecting with people on LinkedIn and other websites.  I find this a rewarding use of my recent free-time (despite the extra weight I've gained).  Below is a recent discussion with a fellow Dress For Success volunteer on the DFS LinkedIn Group about women and mentorship.  If you have any insight, please do share....

To celebrate National Etiquette Week (May 10-14), I’m covering social networking etiquette tips for job seekers this week – one tip each day.

Tip #1: Do not sync all status updates on all Big 3 sites.

Some people sync their Twitter and Facebook status updates; others sync their Twitter and LinkedIn updates. Is this a good idea for job seekers?

Generally, no. Here are three reasons why job seekers shouldn’t sync...

In today's 2.0 (or 3.0) world, social media has become a primary means of communicating information - like it or not!

We all know that to successfully market any product, image is everything. People decide what to buy based on the impression they have about a product’s quality and reputation. Often, they form this opinion from the product’s packaging – details found on the label or features seen in a commercial....

I'm not a fan of auto-updates. My active online communities - Facebook, 85 Broads, Linkedin and Twitter - are very different venues and how I choose to communicate varies with each. No, I'm not suffering from multiple personality disorder! I'm being authentic, being "me" on each site. I'm focused on being responsive to each of my audiences as well as focusing on the subtle nuances of each social networking...