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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. […]

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 I found this post from previous guest Andy Foote an interesting read;   The first one […]

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 […]

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’ […]

Welcome to a new episode, lots to talk about this week as I cover 9 changes that have happened recently….yes that’s nine! But first….. Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week Microsoft is now tying Satya Nadella’s pay to LinkedIn’s performance What I learned by bringing down LinkedIn.com The Best LinkedIn Photos Analysis from JDP   […]

Hello everyone and welcome to a new episode. This week I have had messages from several people about an article doing the rounds that details how the LinkedIn algorithm works – “Wow, that sounds very interesting” I thought….then I read it and felt somewhat cheated. It’s not what it purports to be but I do […]

    Welcome to episode 210, I’m back after a very restful week in the sun in Cape Verde and was surprised to see very little news about LinkedIn circulating the internet over the last couple of weeks but that’s OK as I was keen to talk about something that has been on my mind […]

    Welcome to episode 203, after a weeks break for the Easter holidays we are back and this week I want to talk about engagement……quite possibly the single most important thing you should consider when using LinkedIn! Not much news since the last episode, apart from the following Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week […]

    Welcome to episode 197, I’m back and it’s just me this week. Someone alerted me to a shocking issue regarding invitations to connect this week and it got me thinking about the ineffective way that LinkedIn introduce new features. It seems that they introduce features on a slow roll-out and rely on their users […]

  Welcome to episode 196, this week I chat with personal branding expert Jennifer Holloway about the article that LinkedIn bring out every year highlighting the most used words in LinkedIn profiles.   Takeaways from our chat Some words (such as passionate) are overused in profiles without much thought going into whether they are true […]