Show Notes

Topics and links (in blue) for this week;

News

• LinkedIn Settles Password Hacking Class Action Lawsuit for $1.25M The settlement terms provide that LinkedIn’s paid users can submit a claim, but only if they declare that they read the privacy policy and were influenced by the company’s statements about security. Between 2007 and 2012, LinkedIn garnered around 800,000 premium subscribers, who paid at least $19.95 a month for membership, according to court papers. But lawyers estimate that only 20,000 to 50,000 subscribers will be able to qualify for payments from the settlement fund. The US District court will hold a hearing in January to decide whether to grant the settlement preliminary approval.
• Who’s viewed your profile ranking adds a new ‘professionals like you’ section but the algorithm is far from accurate (see below)

• Public profiles get an update
• If you want to keep up to date with LinkedIn’s constant changes, sign up here to receive an email notifying you of every relevant update.
• LinkedIn get us excited by releasing a new mobile app with the following in the update notes;

Unfortunately this is what happens when you send an invitation (very short video below)

I mentioned several other podcasts during the show, here are the links to those shows;

• Smart Passive Income – Pat Flynn
• UK Podcasters – Mike Russell
• The Online learning podcast – John Colley
• Changeability – Kathryn Bryant
• Magician Business – Ken Kelly

Please review the show on iTunes

iTunes haven’t made this as easy as it should be so I made these 2 short videos to show how it is done on the iTunes site and via their mobile app;

You can buy LinkedIn connections, shocking but true! here is the article I was referring to. What do you think?

Read my blog post about the LinkedIn Stalker

Did you know that you can contact pretty much anyone on LinkedIn for FREE without having to upgrade your account? Click here to download a FREE cheatsheet with step by step instructions.

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