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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 […]

Hello everyone and welcome to a new episode. After two weeks of discussing Pods we are moving onto pastures new. This week I want to focus attention on the continued development of #LinkedInLocal with LocalX. I was lucky enough to get to attend the launch party of LocalX in London recently and wanted to share […]

  Welcome to episode 212. A big thanks for all the feedback from last weeks show. Most of you seemed to enjoy Marjorie’s information about ProFinder although I was surprised by a couple of people who felt I shouldn’t have been promoting a service such as ProFinder – the premise being that LinkedIn are creating […]

    Welcome to episode 211, this week’s episode is dedicated entirely to understanding LinkedIn ProFinder. I haven’t used ProFinder as it is currently only available to users in the United States so I found an experienced (and award-winning) user who could tell us all about it. Let me introduce Marjorie Kavanagh   What is […]

  Welcome to episode 208, this week I am revisiting the search algorithm. If you are a long term listener you will recall that I tested the search algorithm a year ago in episode 161 and I promised that I would conduct the same test every year to check if the algorithm had changed……..and guess […]

Welcome to episode 206. As the new desktop profile design continues to roll-out to many and with the onset of spring, I thought it would make sense to think about updating and refreshing our profiles this week.. Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week LinkedIn’s AutoFill plugin could leak user data, secret fix failed Facebook faces […]

    Welcome to episode 204, this week I want to return to the increasingly important subject of the video, not just native video but the wider use of video on LinkedIn. No interesting news to report this week apart from a couple of changes to LinkedIn; LinkedIn Updates LinkedIn appears to be trialing the […]

    Welcome to episode 202, this week I don’t really have one main subject to cover but I guess the most eye-grabbing headline is that LinkedIn have re-designed profiles….again! More of that later but to start with as usual….   Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week   The Bible of LinkedIn Bollocks LinkedIn Top […]

  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 […]

Welcome to episode 194, this week I have a chat with my friend and fellow LinkedIn Trainer/Consultant Sandra Long about personal branding. Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week LinkedIn Announce some changes to groups I have mentioned previously that I’m aware that LinkedIn are currently working on a project to improve groups and this week […]