Informed Podcast by Mark Williams The podcast for LinkedIn™️ users

Sat, 28 March 2015

Show notes

News

Commentary

The mystery of the 'Certified LinkedIn Publisher'.
Brain De Haaf's profile and the Google search (below) that proves he did have the phrase in his profile

Questions

I no longer receive an email from LinkedIn when someone accepts my invitation to connect. Has this feature gone or are my settings wrong?
- ANS = Firstly the feature does still exist, I received an email just this morning. Your settings may need re-adjusting and it might not be your fault as it appears that this settings has had a recent facelift! Go to Settings>Communications>Push notifications and make sure that the relevant box is ticked. Follow this by logging out, clearing cookies and then check whether it works the next time. Failing that it's a case for the Help Center.

Direct download: LinkedInformed_058.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 2:30pm UTC

Sat, 21 March 2015

News

LinkedIn Expands Efforts to Help Colleges Keep in Touch With Students and Alumni
JP Morgan episode 3! Another financial firm acts like a communist state!
LinkedIn acquires employee referral software firm
Champion puzzle maker creates a LinkedIn crossword.
53% of the top 250 LinkedIn posts are not from Influencers. Excellent analysis of the characteristics of a successful LinkedIn published post

Commentary

Questions

The new home page seems to be feeding information that I do not wish to see (connections, group posts etc). How do I switch this off?
- ANS = Unfortunately you can't, whilst there is a section in your settings to select what updates you see, it is clearly not working! The help center are saying it is a known issue. I suspect they completely forgot about this setting when they re-vamped the homepage. It is very frustrating because from I can see (which is harder with the new design) the number of views has plummeted as a result!

Direct download: LinkedInformed_057.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 10:34pm UTC

Sat, 14 March 2015

News

LinkedIn improve their sponsored InMail service
The JP Morgan saga continues
A new study analyses how 'happy' politicians are from their LinkedIn profile pictures

Commentary

Florist posts an image update that goes viral
Two ways of searching that are outside of the commercial use limit;
- Alumni search
- Field of study search
LinkedIn appear to be testing a new way of customizing invites
Read this article about social selling and let me know what you think. I think this sort of attitude will lead to sales people getting left behind, the changing nature of sales needs to be embraced.
Questions
How do you convert a personal profile which has been created with a company name into a genuine personal profile without losing the connections.
- This is a situation that I have experienced previously and you have to be very careful in how this conversion is handled. Here is my recommended process;
1. Download the connections of the company account.
2. Change the name of the company account to the same name of the personal account you wish to transfer the connections to.
3. Approach LinkedIn (help center) and explain that you have two profiles and you wish to merge the connections into your main account.
Andy Headworth asks if there are any examples of employees who are currently being forced to hand over their account or change their profile by their employers. If anyone is in this situation please get in touch - confidentiality assured.

Direct download: LinkedInformed_056.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 2:04pm UTC

Sat, 7 March 2015

News

An insight into LinkedIn's mobile strategy
JP Morgan's global Head of Technology has sent out a memo advising staff to make their profiles sparse of information to prevent Recruiters from finding them on LinkedIn.

Commentary

WHo has the keys to your profile? Add multiple email addresses to your LinkedIn account to prevent your employer from hijacking your account when you leave.
Two ways to post updates with links and images;
- Post from a company page where status updates have not changed and like or comment on it from your own account.
- Paste the link into the normal update box but make sure that there is no gap between it and the previous word, then attach your image.
- Subscribe to my FREE email updates service to be kept up to speed with changes like this.

Questions

I am in the top 5% of profile views in my network. Is this important?

ANS = Yes, profile views are a form of engagement and engagement will help to get your updates seen by more people.

Direct download: LinkedInformed_055.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 3:30pm UTC