LinkedIn Archive

  • LinkedIn is doing a good job in improving their website. The new LinkedIn profile has become visually more appealing, you can add rich media to different sections, the difficult to install applications like WordPress or Slideshare are gone, and infrequently used pages such as LinkedIn Events are terminated. The next product […] 1

    Important notice regarding LinkedIn Answers

    LinkedIn is doing a good job in improving their website. The new LinkedIn profile has become visually more appealing, you can add rich media to different sections, the difficult to install applications like WordPress or Slideshare are gone, and infrequently used pages such as LinkedIn Events are terminated. The next product […]

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  • With your New LinkedIn profile, applications like Slideshare Presentations, WordPress Blog and Events, will no longer be supported. Fortunately, because installing them was not easy, it didn’t alway work and had its limitations. But there is a new way to showcase rich content on your profile; presentations, videos, documents, and more than 100 […] 3

    Adding Rich Media to your LinkedIn Profile

    With your New LinkedIn profile, applications like Slideshare Presentations, WordPress Blog and Events, will no longer be supported. Fortunately, because installing them was not easy, it didn’t alway work and had its limitations. But there is a new way to showcase rich content on your profile; presentations, videos, documents, and more than 100 […]

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  • Is this index a smart sales tool for LinkedIn Account Executives to sell more professional solutions, such as career pages and jobs, that should be ignored? Or a free and reliable way of scoring your Employer Brand against industry peers that makes other (expensive) surveys obsolete? 1

    LinkedIn Talent Brand Index explained and discussed

    Is this index a smart sales tool for LinkedIn Account Executives to sell more professional solutions, such as career pages and jobs, that should be ignored? Or a free and reliable way of scoring your Employer Brand against industry peers that makes other (expensive) surveys obsolete?

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  • Wow, what a week it was. First I went to TruLondon6, the excellent unconference (un)organised by Bill Boorman, then to LinkedIn Talent Connect and an exclusive lunch meeting with Mike Gamson, SVP Global Solutions and Ariel Eckstein, MD EMEA at LinkedIn. I have enough information to write dozens of articles […] 1

    LinkedIn Talent Connect Europe 2012 Key Takeaways (#intalent)

    Wow, what a week it was. First I went to TruLondon6, the excellent unconference (un)organised by Bill Boorman, then to LinkedIn Talent Connect and an exclusive lunch meeting with Mike Gamson, SVP Global Solutions and Ariel Eckstein, MD EMEA at LinkedIn. I have enough information to write dozens of articles […]

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  • LinkedIn revealed today the next generation LinkedIn Profile! It promises: Simplified editing, Build relationships, Rich insights. No big changes but much more visual attractive. Starting roll out today. What do you think of this new design? UPDATE 16/10: My profile is already visible in the new layout! If you don’t […] 0

    BREAKING: The Complete New LinkedIn Profile (full webpage screenshot)

    LinkedIn revealed today the next generation LinkedIn Profile! It promises: Simplified editing, Build relationships, Rich insights. No big changes but much more visual attractive. Starting roll out today. What do you think of this new design? UPDATE 16/10: My profile is already visible in the new layout! If you don’t […]

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  • Roughly 21% of today’s working professionals can be considered as active job seekers. Another 20% are super passive i.e. happily employed and not interested in a new opportunity. The rest, 59% of all professionals, are approachable according to a survey conducted by LinkedIn. Interestingly, professionals with short tenure are just […] 0

    What motivates passive talent? They are not as passive as you think

    Roughly 21% of today’s working professionals can be considered as active job seekers. Another 20% are super passive i.e. happily employed and not interested in a new opportunity. The rest, 59% of all professionals, are approachable according to a survey conducted by LinkedIn. Interestingly, professionals with short tenure are just […]

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  • LinkedIn released today new data about its popularity among small business professionals. They looked at how many small business professionals are already LinkedIn members. For the purposes of this study, LinkedIn defined small business professionals as LinkedIn members who currently work at a company that has between 11 to 500 […] 2

    How to leverage LinkedIn for small business professionals

    LinkedIn released today new data about its popularity among small business professionals. They looked at how many small business professionals are already LinkedIn members. For the purposes of this study, LinkedIn defined small business professionals as LinkedIn members who currently work at a company that has between 11 to 500 […]

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  • Being a group owner of a 100.000+ LinkedIn member group I’ve seen a lot of spam / fake accounts and block (‘Flag’) many spam accounts every day. Fake accounts are used by spammers who are after your email address by posting discussions or jobs in groups, with links to websites […] 0

    Identifying fake LinkedIn members

    Being a group owner of a 100.000+ LinkedIn member group I’ve seen a lot of spam / fake accounts and block (‘Flag’) many spam accounts every day. Fake accounts are used by spammers who are after your email address by posting discussions or jobs in groups, with links to websites […]

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  • On Friday 30 June 2012, LinkedIn announced that Twitter no longer supports a full integration with their platform i.e. it’s no longer possible to update your LinkedIn status via Twitter. The idea behind this new strategy, according to Twitter, is about “delivering a consistent Twitter experience”. In other words, they […] 1

    Twitter breaks up with LinkedIn. The beginning of the end of Twitter?

    On Friday 30 June 2012, LinkedIn announced that Twitter no longer supports a full integration with their platform i.e. it’s no longer possible to update your LinkedIn status via Twitter. The idea behind this new strategy, according to Twitter, is about “delivering a consistent Twitter experience”. In other words, they […]

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  • Congratulations of being part of a 100.000 members LinkedIn group! On January 26, 2008, the Recruitment Consultants and Staffing Professionals Group was created to provide a platform for Recruiters with quality contacts, jobs and discussions. It was not the first Recruitment/Recruiter group but soon after a few industry leaders, like […] 1

    Connecting 100,000 Recruitment Consultants [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Congratulations of being part of a 100.000 members LinkedIn group! On January 26, 2008, the Recruitment Consultants and Staffing Professionals Group was created to provide a platform for Recruiters with quality contacts, jobs and discussions. It was not the first Recruitment/Recruiter group but soon after a few industry leaders, like […]

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