As you probably already know, I am very active on LinkedIn as a LinkedIn Open Networker or LION. I accept all invitations, and I respond to each invitation with asking my new connections how I might be able to help them. I often get the following response, which I again received just this week: Hi Neal, I do have a question you may be able to help with. I’m attaching my resume so you can get an idea about my skills and experience, but if you were in my shoes, what would you do in finding an opportunity in the …
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It’s no surprise that jobseekers flocked to LinkedIn with this past recession after realizing that most recruiters were already heavy LinkedIn users and were using the social networking platform to find new talent. So many jobseekers are utilizing LinkedIn that some are calling it less of a professional networking site and more of a jobseeker’s networking site. It is unfortunate that some professionals are turned away from LinkedIn because of this as they miss out on a lot of professional networking opportunities. Windmill Networking on LinkedIn as part of your job search strategy is obviously important. But many jobseekers are …
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As the year comes to a close, it is time to look back, before looking forward to 2010, at all of the informative and insightful blog posts that the world has created in the past 365 days concerning LinkedIn. LinkedIn itself, while beginning 2009 at a slow start, ended the year announcing 50 million members, integrating with Twitter, a new user interface, and an opening up of their platform. Not to mention that they refined and improved upon the most valuable piece of their social networking platform, the Advanced People Search. Oh, and then there was the new Profile Organizer …
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I finally got access to the new LinkedIn user interface (UI) yesterday, so I thought I would write up a quick comparison to the old user interface and conclude with my thoughts on whether or not this is a step forward for the LinkedIn user. I already mentioned in a previous post that the new LinkedIn user interface brings with it no new functionality per se. But from a usability perspective, the change is dramatic and warrants a unique post in helping you adjust to the new way of navigating LinkedIn.
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Today’s blog post has been contributed by Lisa Hendrickson, the owner of Call That Girl! (CTG) based out of Minneapolis, MN. CTG does local and nationwide telephone supported computer repair/troubleshooting. My personal experience with using LinkedIn Groups has been more than exciting and has also brought me to my first “eye-opening” attention grabbing numbers of making more than $10,000 from using LinkedIn. What was my investment? TIME. Period. I did not put one dime into LinkedIn and have yet to do so. I still am using the free account as well.
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LinkedIn began limited testing of their new user interface a few weeks ago and today announced that they were going to roll out their new “look” to everyone in the next week. What’s changed?
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When I began blogging about LinkedIn, I felt that there was a lack of information regarding utilizing LinkedIn in the blogosphere. I have done my best to fill the gap, especially concerning the restrictions that you meet but don’t realize until you hit them! This has evolved into my popular blog posts on using LinkedIn for Job Search as well as LinkedIn for Sales and Business Development. But what about case studies of success stories on LinkedIn?
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LinkedIn has always fascinated me on if and how they release information on their new functionalities or services. On the one had, the LinkedIn Groups Product Forum LinkedIn Group, often moderated by LinkedIn employees, is very open with releasing information on future roadmaps as well as welcoming feedback from the LinkedIn community concerning LinkedIn Groups. On the other hand, LinkedIn releases a beta feature (like their new user interface, for instance) to only a small portion of their users but writes a blog post announcing it to everyone. There have been other beta features that have only been released to a …
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Just a few days after I mentioned in my blog post on the new LinkedIn Profile Organizer that it had been a year since LinkedIn released any new significant functionality, we have been bombarded by the social media press over the last few days concerning the new LinkedIn User Interface and now the big news last night on the integration between LinkedIn and Twitter. And this news has sparked reaction ranging from ReadWriteWeb’s analysis that the potential of opening up all of the cross-platform data between LinkedIn and Twitter has not fully begun to be realized, Mashable’s read on the …
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If you are still using the free version of LinkedIn, you may have been curious about the new LinkedIn Profile Organizer. I received the same email that all of you LinkedIn users probably did advertising this as a new killer functionality. The timing of the announcement is interesting in that it happened almost one year after LinkedIn Applications were introduced. Come to think of it, this is the first new major functionality that LinkedIn has introduced in a year [and as I write this LinkedIn just made a significant upgrade in their user interface, so this may have been what …
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