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Keeping secure on LinkedIn in 2018

January 5, 2018 by ,

LinkedIn Security & SafetyWith more and more activity happening online, in all of our interactions we have dual issues of both getting seen (and heard) while at the same time also staying safe – luckily there are some security aspects built into the LinkedIn system which may help.

I’m not talking about getting your homepage spam free – that’s a topic I’ve talked about elsewhere – but rather ensuring your access and activity on LinkedIn is as secure as possible. After all, it’s your own personal information, professional information and connections that are all built up in this site.

So, I’m going to encourage you to have a look at 6 areas that I’ve outlined below which will keep you – and your information – that little bit more secure on LinkedIn going forward.

1. Which services have access to your LinkedIn account

In a world where automation and streamlining seem to be pushing us to try to link everything together, we have no doubt allowed certain services to have access to our LinkedIn account to aid that process, Twitter being a prime example. (more…)

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12 Hacks you’ll love on LinkedIn

July 24, 2017 by ,


Okay, you’ve already sussed me out, I don’t really know what a hack is … it always used to be something negative when I was growing up but now it just seems to be used in place of “ways to do things”.

So, anyway, here are 12 great hacks that you might find of value on LinkedIn, that’s to say some “really useful things you can do and find on LinkedIn that you may not have previously known about”.

Okay … “LinkedIn hacks” is shorter, I’ll grant you that.

Now, these aren’t going to make or break whether LinkedIn is a success for you – having an unfocused profile, blindly connecting, not engaging and pitching when you should be listening will all make a much better job of that – but perhaps they may add a little to your experience on the site and open up some of the options you have available to you.

1. Connect Date

The date when you first connected with someone on LinkedIn can be remarkably useful, particularly as you start (more…)

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The Marmite nature of LinkedIn Notifications

June 15, 2017 by ,

Well, as the phrase goes, you either love them or hate them but one thing that you’ll find it difficult to do is simply miss notifications on LinkedIn … and that’s probably a good thing, given what they are trying to achieve. 🙂

As with so many things on LinkedIn, the issue arises because people want to use the site in different ways and so something which one person finds of value, another might consider to be a waste of time or better suited to a site like Facebook. And so it is with LinkedIn Notifications. So the challenge we face is how to get the best out of them and to avoid the annoyance that people feel that they are in some way irrelevant and intrusive.

Luckily, and again like so much on LinkedIn, you can customise this section allowing you to see the ones that you are interested in and hide those that for you are simply irrelevant noise.

So what are Notifications?

Notifications do very much what they say on the tin – they simply notify you when something which is deemed of interest or importance to you happens. You’ll find them in the main menu and they appear for a number of very different reasons.

Some of the main ones are when (more…)

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Changing your LinkedIn homepage to suit you

March 14, 2016 by ,

linkedin-updates-topimageOn any network, there are going to be differing views and differing goals among those who frequent it. It’s to be expected … and, in this sense, LinkedIn is no different. Given the huge diversity of people on the site and the wide variety of reasons they have for being there, the opinions expressed will naturally include some you may not agree with or indeed wish to read.

For me personally, I like to remain focused in terms of what I share and what I read on the site and one of the places where this is most relevant is on LinkedIn’s homepage – or rather MY homepage – where my newsfeed displays Updates, news and commentary from people in my network.

Of late, LinkedIn seems to have been in a constant state of flux – some changes have been good but one of the most noticeable results has been the increase in perhaps less ‘business focused’ Updates including maths quizzes, word search and the like, as well as overtly political or religious posts – some have called this “Facebook-ification” of LinkedIn. Whatever it is, I for one could do without the vast majority of it.

Luckily, however, we have a certain degree of control over what appears there – allowing us to cut down on the noise and to focus on the content that is of interest to us individually.

This article looks at a couple of key ways you have control over the tool that is YOUR homepage. (more…)

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I’m speaking at the LinkedIn Success Summit

December 1, 2015 by ,

banner2November was another really busy month (which is great!) primarily running in-company workshops with a particular focus on Using LinkedIn for Business Development as well as presenting at some great events – there was the Midlands Expo at the start of November and then the NorthWest Expo last week at Old Trafford, both really well attended!

December is shaping up to be similarly hectic but the main event I’ll be speaking at this time is online … at the LinkedIn Success Summit which is a virtual event running from 7th – 11th December and featuring some of the best known trainers and speakers on LinkedIn from … well …all round the world really including some of my personal favourites.

I’m pleased to say that I will also be adding to the mix. 🙂

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Prioritising your Groups on LinkedIn

June 3, 2015 by ,

LinkedIn Tips and AdviceGroups are a big deal on LinkedIn – they can deliver a huge amount of value from a research, visibility and engagement perspective )according to your focus) and usually our difficultly is finding the right ones and, of course, the perennial issue of keeping on top of what is going on in them.

If, like me, you prefer not to receive lots of emails informing you of the latest discussions and postings in the Groups you belong to but instead prefer to keep a watching brief by yourself, then you will probably have turned off the daily or weekly notifications and instead head to your Groups homepage where a graphic list of all of the Groups you belong to appears.

Your list should appear in a grid formation something along the lines below, with each block representing your Groups and with a number in the top right hand corner of the block indicating if there has been any new activity in the last 24 hours. (more…)

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