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Welcome to this weeks LinkedInformed. It’s been a big week for new features but the biggest and best of all of them is the option to add a video introduction to your profile photo. I actually made a spoof video about this in 2015…I’m still waiting for LinkedIn to thank me for the idea! More […]

Your LinkedIn profile is clearly very important and underpins everything you do on LinkedIn – I think we all know that these days. Building an effective, optimised profile is actually pretty easy, once you have been shown how. But one section, in my experience, causes us untold levels of anxiety – the About section (previously […]

Welcome to episode 247, I’m back after a really relaxing vacation and quite a few things seem to have been happening on LinkedIn whilst I have been away! Update on the last episode So that game-changing messaging feature didn’t last very long did it? Within a week I found that although you could still create […]

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 […]