One of the most common questions I see about how to use LinkedIn is “How do I introduce two people in my network to each other?”
This is a fundamental practice of good networking, but unfortunately, there’s not a built-in mechanism in LinkedIn for doing that (FYI, others and I have been suggesting that feature for [...]
It seems LinkedIn is a really hot topic in the blogosphere at the moment. Here’s my irregular roundup of some of my favorite recent posts:
20 Ways to Use LinkedIn Productively
Web Worker Daily has compiled a list of 20 ways to use LinkedIn:
Increase freelance work.
Find your dream job.
Boost your business.
Improve your Google results.
Check references for potential [...]
Recently, LinkedIn made some changes in the way invitations work, adding some automated consequences for sending invitations to people you don’t know (and who don’t want invitations from people they don’t know). In so doing, they changed the options as to how you can reply to an invitation you receive. You can now:
Accept
Say you don’t [...]
I hope this is the start of a trend…
One of my biggest frustrations with LinkedIn has been the fact that they have not made a practice of getting user input about new features before they’re rolled out - only after the cat’s out of the bag. This used to be just irritating, but increasingly, it [...]
I’ve been using LinkedIn Answers pretty heavily now since its launch. While I think it’s a really useful feature, it has a lot of room for improvement. Here are my top picks for features LinkedIn could add to Answers to make it supremely useful: