A big thank you to everyone that took the time to vote for the show, I feel very proud to have won the highly competitive ‘Management & Marketing’ category at the UK podcast awards this last week.

Here I am desperately trying to look relaxed with my hand in my pocket (sorry Mum) and trying to say something remotely sensible in my acceptance speech!

I had a fantastic time at the New Media Europe conference, not just because LinkedInformed won an award but also because I met some great people and saw some great speakers in action.

Here are the people I mention in this episode;

• Cliff Ravenscraft, The Podcast Answerman
• Chris Ducker, Youprenuer and outsourcing expert.
• Amy Schmittauer. Savvy, sexy social. An expert on YouTube
• Jonathan Tilley. For me, the best speaker at the event. Have a look at his TedX talk about creativity below

News

• The LinkedIn Sexism Scandal. A partner of a law firm replies to a LinkedIn invitation by complimenting a 27 year old female barrister on her profile picture. She took offence and posted his message and her response on Twitter….then things went a bit crazy!
• Is the new LinkedIn messaging feature actually a true instant messaging app? I still don’t have it but here is an article about it. If you have it, please let me know what you think. – leave a voice message or drop me an email mark@linkedinformed.com
• If you are not using CrystalKnows then why on earth not, it’s amazing! While I’m on the subject you should also be using Autopilot, I’m getting amazing results from it.
• Reid Hoffman hints that LinkedIn groups are being rebuilt from scratch in this interview.

Questions

Violeta is somewhat underwhelmed with LinkedIn Slideshare’s new clipping feature, I couldn’t agree more – pretty much a ‘meh’ feature!

I personally use Evernote’s fantastic web clipper

That’s it for this week, a week when I have done plenty of celebrating as well as thinking on many occasions: This time last I was……..

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