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News

•  LinkedIn applies for a patent to check the accuracy of facts and statements in profiles.
•  LinkedIn spends $500,000 on buying Reid Hoffman's new book.
•  $115,000 are donated to a local teen centre
•  America's three most hated companies;  Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn!
•  This Chinese article about fake accounts is a timely reminder to us all.

• Are you frustrated with the commercial use limit on search?The following searches are all "free" and do not count against your monthly allowance
  • Alumni search
  • Fieldof study search
  • Connections network search
  • Tagging
•  Are InMail responserates dropping?

Questions

How do I post a job on LinkedIn for free?

ANS = There are four ways in which this can be done;

•  A job discussion in a relevant group
•  A personal status update
•  A published post
•  Company page update (pinned to the top)

News

• Yahoo Mail Contact cards
• Key senior executive leaves LinkedIn
• Update on the Lynda.com deal
• LinkedIn launch their new corporate Elevate product
• LinkedIn are top payers!

Commentary

• Check out my new podcast Winbusinessin
• • Tip - This is what to do if you can't save a 2nd tier to contacts
  • Keywords in name fields. It works from an optimisation perspective but it is still against the rules. What are your thoughts? Drop me a line at mark@linkedinformed.com

  Question

  • How many different type of emails do LinkedIn send you and how can you stop them?
    • ANS = There are 20 different types of emails (excluding group emails) which can all be controlled from within your settings. Go to Communications> Set the frequency of emails.

News

• Character from Ex-Machina film has a LinkedIn profile - even though she is a robot! Update since recording - it looks as though this profile has been taken down.
• If you have a really good post that you believe should be featured in a channel on Pulse then you can try tweeting @linkedinpulse to ask if they can help to get it promoted.
•  Lynda.com is acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5billion!
• The Mashable article about LinkedIn's acquisition of Lynda.com
• Jeff Weiners post about the deal
• Lynda Weinmans post
• Viveka Von Rosen's profile

Commentary

• Sponsored updates appear to be an attractive option as opposed to normal adverts on LinkedIn but there is a downside!

Show notes

News

• I had a reply from the person whose published post achieved over 3 million views and she doesn't know why it was so successful!
• LinkedIn acquire Refresh
• LinkedIn's April fool joke
• University offer premium accounts to 1000 students
• The latest big thing in social media? Periscope is a live video streaming app from Twitter and it is amazing!

Commentary

• Interesting article that lists 10 LinkedIn invitation templates. Some are pretty cheesy and I would always suggest writing your own but these may help get you started.
• Tip: Consider contacting some people who have viewed your profile. I saw a potential prospect had viewed my profile and as a result of contacting him I have generated some new business.

Questions

• I keep seeing this nonsense on my LI feed. This and various other mathematical questions  trying to get a million 'likes'. I generally only see them because one of my contacts comments. To me they have no place on LI. But why do people do it and is there a way to stop it?

  • ANS = I think they create them to gain a high number of views but to what end? More damaging though is the people who participate, not realising that they are annoying their connections who may well hide their future updates as a result. My advice - if you enjoy quizzes, do them but don't post your answer on LinkedIn, no-one will think you are clever - quite the opposite!

• I am an employee of a company which has changed  its name and email domain.  I was requested by a colleague to join LinkedIn over a year ago and so I did the email I registered was my old one.
  Anyhow I keep getting emails from prospective employees linked to my profile and when I click on it from my work email is says access denied. So we have been blocked off.  I now don't know how to get back in I don't know which email to use and when I try both domain & opal email is says invalid email.  I want to now log in my same profile by setting it up with my personal email can u help with this ?

  • ANS = A real complicated mess isn't it and LinkedIn are partly responsible for this. The simple way to avoid such problems is to list all your email addresses under one LinkedIn account.