Tag Archives: Connecting People

Talk to your Connections – LinkedIn Advent Calendar (day 3)

December 3, 2020 by ,

We don’t talk enough to the people closest to us – on LinkedIn, that means your Connections.

We’re often too busy looking for new people to talk to that we forget to keep in touch with the people we already know … and our network in general.

We could all do more of that any time – but it’s particularly important in today’s world.

Answer me this: (more…)

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QR Code and Find Nearby – LinkedIn’s equivalent of the Elbow Bump

August 2, 2020 by ,

There are a couple of things which appear only in LinkedIn Mobile App that I tend to think of as LinkedIn’s equivalent of the Elbow Bump … or whatever the replacement is going to be in the short-term for the handshake and business card swapping at events and meetings.

As we start to move back to face to face meetings again, I’m expecting there will be some reticence in getting too close too soon … unless we’re meeting on Bournemouth beach I guess!

Anyway, if you want to maintain a discreet distance and perhaps exchanging business cards isn’t your ideal way of sharing details anymore, then LinkedIn has a solution – or in fact it has a couple of solutions that can work really nicely in different circumstances.

There’s an individual introduction to the two options below but the video below walks you through them as well. Anyone care to ‘Elbow Bump’ at distance? My QR code is in the video if you do! (more…)

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Strengthen your network – connect your connections!

April 27, 2011 by ,

LinkedIn - Connecting People on LinkedInWhatever our endgame is when it comes to LinkedIn – developing new business, finding a job, creating a community etc. – extending our network and creating new contacts is a key part of that. In most cases, this usually means us focussing on increasing our own connections – however, there’s more to it than that.

There’s also a huge amount of value to be had from taking a more proactive approach to strengthening the network around us – in particular, being able to put two of our direct connections in touch with each other when we believe they would benefit from connecting.

LinkedIn gives us a few different ways to do just this and, in an ideal world, we should be looking carefully at doing this – some might even consider this to be the very essence of good (more…)

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