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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.

One of my first tasks every year involves disconnecting with people who are no longer relevant or adding value to my LinkedIn network. Why do I and others do this and what are the benefits? More of that later but there are a couple of things I spotted this week which you might find interesting; […]

Last year is one many of us would prefer to forget but there are plenty of lessons that can be learned from our LinkedIn experience in 2020. In this episode, I am going to focus on the posting results and conclusions from three different users. My own plus John Espirian and Mark Lee. But before we look back, some […]

Welcome to the final episode of 2020, a year most of us are keen to put behind us no doubt! That is why I thought it would be appropriate to focus on the future in this episode and predict what we might see happen on LinkedIn next year. But first… Interesting Stuff I Saw This […]

Native video posts have become a popular way to share ideas, provide helpful tips and build relationships with your followers, and with the recent addition of Stories, where video typically features heavily, I thought it would be worth revisiting the topic.

David Kilkelly is one of my favourite video experts on LinkedIn. I have followed him for some time for a source of inspiration and helpful tips so I thought I would have a chat with him about LinkedIn video. Interestingly our chat was as much about content as it was specifically about video.

LinkedIn Phishing Scams Most Clicked With a 47% Open Rate in Q3 2020   Stories Update LinkedIn have confirmed that tapping on the right edge or swiping immediately on a story is not counted as a view. In addition, it would appear that they are testing some new ‘engagement’ analytics as seen here in this […]

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 […]

It always happens whilst I’m away… LinkedIn finally brought stories to the UK. Unfortunately I was too busy swimming in the crystal clear water of the Ionian sea to pay any attention to it! Not only that, they also brought out another new feature just towards the end of the week that would have been […]

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 […]

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, […]