how to [linkedin] | 03.08.10

do you work for my company? boost your linkedin seo


Parade Clowns

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if you are a linkedin user, you have seen it. profile after profile with the websites section listing

“my company”
“my blog”
“my lack of imagination”

why, lord, why? I can understand typical users doing this, but the putative experts?
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privacy, social media | 03.07.10

is rapportive outing you?

Let your guard, eh pants, down - 2010-02-19

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a new angel came down from web 2.0 heaven this week. a new social crm plugin for gmail provides a 360 view of people with whom you correspond. but is the full monty treatment appropriate for all your contacts? and what are people seeing about you? never heard of rapportive? well, they’ve heard of you, and they’re sharing that info with all your gmail contacts.
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how to [facebook], privacy | 03.07.10

facebook apps won't share (unless you tell them to)

Facebook, Inc.
Image via Wikipedia

some more good news for privacy-loving facebook users. facebook announced new privacy controls for content shared through applications.
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blogging, how to [blogging] | 03.05.10

zemanta hearts my posterous blogs, too

plug me in

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I added the zemanta plugin to my wordpress blog and have been really impressed. the plug in searches the text of your post and suggests images and related articles to include. the biggest value add for me is that zemanta finds images that are available for use and tags them automatically with the correct attribution information.

I noticed that zemanta offered a plugin for the chrome browser to provide the same options for gmail. in fact, visiting the zemanta site shows that they can integrate with most of the major blogging and email platforms, as well as facebook. the value here is what I am testing with this post – in my posterous submissions.
and now I click send…and presto! check out the post on smbar.

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blogging, how to [blogging] | 02.23.10

feeding the (content) beast


Stress Reduction Kit

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the marketing bus these days runs on content. useful, relevant, frequently updated content. great in theory, but the reality of generating that kind of wordpower on a regular basis can be and commonly is a challenge. even michaelangelos and tom edisons need occasional inspiration, right?
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how to [google buzz], privacy | 02.14.10

who's buzzing you?

steampunk joy buzzer

Image by Cryptonaut via Flickr

newborn google buzz has experienced significant growing pains in its first few days. surprisingly, most of the criticism of the new service has focused on the service’s auto-follow feature. I’m less concerned who google thinks I should be following and even follows on my behalf. I’m more concerned about the other side of the coin – the absence of good controls over who follows me. happy day: there’s good news to report.
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how to [linkedin] | 02.08.10

is your social media profile portable?

credit nbii.gov

with the surge in popularity in all things social media, many people are registering for services for the first time. alternatively, people are discovering services they signed up for on the spur of the moment a while back are increasingly useful as more users come on board. whether you signed up a while back or last week, here’s something to verify (or change) today to ensure your social media persona (at least the linkedin piece of it) is with you for the long haul.

don’t use a work email as the primary linkedin address.
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how to [linkedin], linkedin | 01.30.10

a linkedin tip that will probably leave you frustrated and certainly take more than 60 sec

A Cold Call

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there’s some good advice out thereon how to use social media tools, and there’s some that leave you shaking your head. herein some corrective surgery on a linkedin tip I read today.
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linkedin, social media | 01.29.10

do I know you? degrees of linkedin-ness

LinkedIn smurfs

Image by 99zeros via Flickr

In yesterday’s post about linkedin’s new look, I made a reference to a group of linkedin users known as ‘lions’ (linkedin open networkers). here’s some of the wikipedia writeup:

LinkedIn networking philosophy is based on a simple rule that says that a person should not invite to connect people with whom they have no prior relationship to join their network

However, this limitation is viewed by some members of the LinkedIn community as overly restrictive. So some of them have adopted a policy of accepting invitations even from strangers. They circumvent some LinkedIn requirements (e.g. having to know a person’s email address in order to send a linking invitation to them) by publicly posting their email addresses in their profiles, and stating that they openly accept invitations, thus becoming LinkedIn Open Networkers, or simply LIONs.”

my point in mentioning lion in yesterday’s post was the way in which the new linkedin site design made room for an improved search function. improved searching makes life easier when you have thousands of linkedin contacts you barely know. in thinking about it, I compared users whose primary focus was in amassing connections, with their counterparts on twitter, obsessed with follower counts. what’s the difference?
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how to [linkedin], linkedin | 01.27.10

linkedin meets nip/tuck

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although its flashier social media cousins have been getting all the press lately, linkedin has had a little work done, too. the latest was today’s announcement about some tweaks to linkedin’s contacts list , but the fun started last fall with more substantive changes to the overall linkedin interface. so what’s up with the suit and tie member of the social media posse?
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