Communication & Listening
There are lots of ways to communicate with others on LinkedIn and I will cover them all but the overriding principle of effective communication is that it needs to be a two-way process.
The Algorithm Revisited
This week I’m going to deep dive into the excellent piece of research recently published by Richard Van Der Blom Richard has put a lot of time and effort into analysing data from 4500 posts and as he freely admits these results can be interpreted in different ways so I thought I would give you […]
Polls Apart!
Firstly I must apologise for missing last weeks episode, I have been so busy on the Great Manager project. LinkedIn Polls have returned after an absence of 7 years or so. It’s great to have them back and I had high hopes that LinkedIn might have improved on the product in those 8 years…In this episode, […]
Is The Algorithm Messing With Us?
Welcome to this weeks episode in a baron week for news I’ve been noticing some subtle changes that suggest LinkedIn might be testing out falsely boosting the distribution of reshares – this got me thinking about a much broader issue about how much LinkedIn try to control our behaviour. More of that later, firstly.. Interesting […]
Settings Part 2 – Privacy
Welcome to LinkedInformed 263. This week I continue with my tutorial on settings with probably the most important section of all – Privacy But before that… Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week Closing the Network Gap (the Plus One Pledge) Welcome to LinkedIn! A (satirical) tutorial to our features Feedback from previous episodes Paolo Lanciani […]
Feeds Get More Personal
Welcome to a new episode. I hope you have had a great week. Apparently, at LinkedIn they have a saying; “People You Know, Talking About Things You Care About.” And so they have announced that they have been adjusting our feed algorithm to give us exactly that. I had noticed this change over the last […]
Christmas 2018
Welcome to the Christmas edition of the podcast. This will be the last episode this year so let me wish you all a fantastic Christmas break and an exciting a prosperous new year. Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week I found this post from previous guest Andy Foote an interesting read; The first one […]
I’ve Cracked The Algorithm!
Hello everyone and welcome to a new episode. This week I have had messages from several people about an article doing the rounds that details how the LinkedIn algorithm works – “Wow, that sounds very interesting” I thought….then I read it and felt somewhat cheated. It’s not what it purports to be but I do […]
Stop Blaming The Algorithm!
Welcome to episode 190, it seems that many people are talking about the mysterious LinkedIn algorithm, myself included! I can’t believe how many of these people are still blaming the algorithm for the poor performance of their content, it’s not the algorithm folks, it’s your content!…… But before I get stuck into that, here are […]