Archives for January, 2010
YouTube Advice for Beginners: The Importance of Your Username
January 11th, 2010I am writing this post today because I wish that someone had written this for me when I was looking for a solution. You see, I made a big mistake when I chose my original YouTube username, so today I write this to make sure that you don’t make the same mistake. I recently wrote [...]
LinkedIn Features: Does Everyone Have Equal Access?
May 5th, 2009LinkedIn continues to upgrade their service with minor tweaks and additional functionality, but I am starting to find a gap between what features some people can see and some cannot. I have never heard of this on Facebook or Twitter, but this is definitely happening on LinkedIn, and it is troubling. And these are all [...]
How Do I Utilize LinkedIn Inbox?
March 25th, 2009This will be the fourth and last look at the recent changes made by LinkedIn in the Groups and Inbox functionality. Now that LinkedIn is positioning Inbox, literally, in the top center of your Home Page and as the central location for your LinkedIn communications, it raises the question of how do you actually utilize [...]
Why Do LinkedIn Invitations Bounce? – An Update
February 8th, 2009I wrote a post several months ago on “How Do I Know if My Intended Recepient Recived My LinkedIn Invitation?” that I updated today that also touched upon this subject, but an hour after I wrote that, I realized that recently a lot of my LinkedIn invitations have bounced. What is the statistical trend here? [...]
How Many LinkedIn Groups Can I Join?
August 4th, 2008Until today this was an easy question to answer: as many as you want. However, today LinkedIn informed me that there will now be a maximum of 50 groups per person. The official E-Mail reads like this:






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