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If you’re work has a visual component – graphic designers and photographers come to mind – then LinkedIn has probably felt a little cold to you. On a site like Facebook you can easily post your most attractive work and let it speak for you. After all, saying you’re a great photographer is a little lame. Showing it is something different.

However, LinkedIn has just added an application that will allow you creative types to showcase your best work on that site too. Called Creative Portfolio Display, this application allows you to create an attractive online portfolio.

Photographers, graphic designers, visual artists: Show your portfolio on LinkedIn

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Categories : LinkedIn, social media
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Setting up a LinkedIn group is a great way to encourage discussion and get to know new people. However, groups on LinkedIn have been the last bastion of spammers on the site. Unless you had lots of time to moderate the group, too often people would be posting items that are unabashedly promotional, rather than contributing to the group.

Until now.

LinkedIn has changed how you can moderate groups.

First of all, Read More→

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Aug
19

Using Twitter for Business

Posted by: Andrea J. Stenberg | Comments (0)

How can you use Twitter to promote your business? This video is a discussion by Wayne Peters and Brad Gosse from the SEO Guys about how to effectively use Twitter for business, even local business. Wayne is a member of my BNI group and I’m happy to share this video with you as Brad raises some great points.

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While getting started on Twitter is fairly easy, there are some advanced strategies that may take new users some time to figure out. One of those is the hashtag (#).

Hashtags are used for following conversations on Twitter. Putting a # in front of a word or code allows everyone to see what’s being said about this topic.

For example, you may have seen #followfriday on Twitter. This particular hashtag is a way for people to tell their followers about interesting people on Twitter.

I’m a big baseball fan. By following #Bluejays or #gojaysgo during a game, I can chat with fellow fans from the comfort of my living room

Hashtags for Live Events

However, hashtags can be used in a variety of other ways. Read More→

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One of the most common questions I get from business people about using Facebook is about how to appear professional while still maintaining personal relationships. I do confess that this can be tricky proposition, but if you plan ahead you can maintain your Facebook profile for both uses.

It helps if you make this decision early. If you’re going to be using Facebook for both business and personal relationships, you need to act accordingly. You need to be aware of who is seeing your posts and make sure what you are saying on Facebook is something you would like clients to know about you.

The first thing you should do is create lists of friends. Lists allow you to target certain posts to specific groups of people. Read More→

Categories : Facebook, social media
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