I need your votes!

News

• Two new LinkedIn apps are rumoured to be in the works. A new Groups app and one called ‘LookUp’.
• Instant messaging may finally be coming to LinkedIn!
• LinkedIn’s new marketing podcast
• Check out the LinkedIn profiles of your website visitors with this hack. Disclaimer – Do this at your own risk, I’m giving it a try on a dummy account and will report back next week.
• Over 1 million users are now publishing on LinkedIn
• How being a ‘hot girl’ on LinkedIn attracts attention.
• The Prophet Chrome extension has been working really well.
• You can now add any skills you want, including made up silly ones!

We are up for an award!

This podcast has been running for 18 months now and over that time we have built a strong community of loyal listeners and followers. I really enjoy collating all the weekly news, thinking of interesting topics, interviewing guests and getting your feedback (typing up the show notes is less thrilling but I console myself that the alternative would be writing a longer blog post every week!).

I really hope you enjoy the podcast and get real value from it every week.

The show has now been nominated for an award at this years New Media Europe conference held in Manchester on the 12/13th September and I would massively appreciate it if you would vote and nominate LinkedInformed for a prize.

The competition will be fierce as Europe is giving birth to many more really excellent podcasts, now rivaling the standards set by our North American cousins so I really need your support.

If you haven’t booked your tickets yet for the conference yet….What are you doing?!!

The event is for podcasters, bloggers, social media visionaries, content creators, entrepreneurs and new media enthusiasts who are looking to up their game through the effective use of new media tools.

Click on the image below and grab your tickets to see the likes of Chris Ducker, Cliff Ravenscraft (Podcast Answerman) and Natalie Sisson sharing their wisdom of how to make the most of these exciting new media tools.

Question

• Why do people who don’t really know me endorse my skills?
  • ANS = Some people do it because they believe they are helping you although I suspect most people simply endorse because they are asked to and they figure it isn’t going to do any harm. In truth skill endorsements add little value to a profile because they have been so misused by most people.

Thank you so much for listening, I really value your support and interest.

As always I would welcome your feedback and questions. If you want to be on the show you can leave a comment by voicemail (right hand side of this page) or email me at mark@linkedinformed.com.

Help me to promote the podcast

It can be difficult to get noticed in iTunes and one thing that can really make a difference is reviews. If you enjoy the show please take a minute to write an honest review in iTunes, it would be most appreciated.

If you are not sure how to write an iTunes review I have made a couple of videos on how it can be done on desktop or mobile

Until next time….