Category: LinkedIn
LinkedIn Reaches 4 Million Australian Members – But How Many Are Active?
LinkedIn has now reached the milestone of 4 million Australian members. It was only in March 2012 that we reported LinkedIn reached 3 million members - so over the last 12 months LinkedIn has added 1 million Australian’s, or about 83,000 news sign-ups per month – about 2700 a day. This is a rather impressive milestone [...]
Read MoreLinkedIn Answers To Be Retired January 31
In a surprising move for many, LinkedIn has decided to retire their Q&A product – LinkedIn Answers on January 31, 2013. This feature has been on the site ever since 2007 and whilst has always got use from users it’s clear not enough to satisfy LinkedIn in keeping this product alive. One of the issues for many [...]
Read MoreTreat your LinkedIn Connections Like your Twitter Followers
Let me ask a few opening questions: 1. Do you add every single person you can on LinkedIn as a connection? 2. Do you accept connections from random people overseas in a totally unrelated industry? LinkedIn is a great professional tool for connecting with new industry contacts, but taking a spammy and ‘totally open’ approach [...]
Read MoreLinkedIn Endorsement Feature Rolls Out To Australia and New Zealand
Over the last couple of days you may have noticed a new feature on LinkedIn – Endorsements on your skills and those of your connections. These are showing up in the real time feed so it would be hard to miss. These LinkedIn Endorsements are being beta tested by Australian and New Zealand users before [...]
Read MoreWhy having your LinkedIn profile at 100% Complete is so Important
If there is one place on the social web where you want customers, clients, and other prospects to check out your personal profile – this would be on LinkedIn (not Facebook or Twitter). According to our latest stats, 2.2 million Australian’s visit the LinkedIn website every month. There is no doubt having a complete and [...]
Read More6 Tips to Build Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn
In their latest earnings call, LinkedIn reported their social network has now amassed 175 million members worldwide. With such a strong business network we need to look for ways to stand out from the crowd and one aspect I find very useful with the LinkedIn site is the potential for personal branding and reputation management. [...]
Read More7 Tips to make your LinkedIn Profile more Professional
I have recently been thinking – how do you stand out on LinkedIn? How can we make our presence on LinkedIn look more professional than the average person so we stand out and can get more business? After coming across so many profiles that lack detail, credibility and basic interest I put down some points [...]
Read MoreLinkedIn App – Year In Review
LinkedIn have just launched a new application that analyses your current connections and shows you who has taken a new job this year. The app is called Year in Review and can be accessed here: http://yir.linkedinlabs.com/ 1. You first authenticate your LinkedIn account with the new application: 2. LinkedIn will analyse the job data of [...]
Read More5 SEO Tips for your LinkedIn Profile
Websites are always changing and when it comes to the leading Social Networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn they are constantly tweaking their sites to generate the best financial results, drive visitors and increase engagement. As a small business myself, one of the most important tools for generating new business, finding contacts and industry [...]
Read MoreThe Most Powerful Man in the World is on LinkedIn
Now this is kinda cool. The President of the United States of America - Barack Obama has a LinkedIn profile, which is part of his social media strategy for the upcoming US election. You can view his profile here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/barackobama Now to go searching for Australian politicians on LinkedIn.
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