Archive for LinkedIn
LinkedIn has created an application to connect your LinkedIn connections with your Outlook inbox. If you’re using Microsoft Outlook for your email, and want the two connected you need to download and install the Outlook Social Connector and the LinkedIn Outlook Connector.
Once you’ve done that, information about people in your LinkedIn network will appear at the bottom of emails from that person. Things like who they’re connecting with, when they’ve updated their profile and their status updates may appear. A separate LinkedIn folder is created in Outlook for your LinkedIn connections. You’ll now have names, addresses and photos of all your connections in your email client.
Based on the comments on the LinkedIn blog, some people don’t like having the separate folder because they’ve already got their connections added to Outlook. However, it will be handy for future connections. You won’t have to import them, they’ll already be in your email client.
If you’ve been reading me for a while, you may know that I use Mozilla Thunderbird rather than Outlook. When I hear about tools like this, I once again start questioning my decision to use a tool that is not the most popular one. Although there are many benefits to Thunderbird, sometimes – like now – I wonder if I made the right decision.
Anyway, here’s a video explaining how it all works.
Or you can watch it directly from YouTube.
Since I can’t give this a test drive myself, I’d love to hear from anyone who has tried it out. Please leave a comment and let us know what you think.
Andrea J. Stenberg
I’ve been seeing a disturbing trend on LinkedIn; a trend that is making me angry. People are starting their relationship with me by lying.
Let me backtrack. LinkedIn has a much more rigid code of conduct than other social networking sites. On Twitter you can start following anyone you want: celebrities, politicians, brands, random strangers. It doesn’t matter how or if you know them. You can start following them and they don’t have to approve you.
Facebook is slightly more formal. While you can invite anyone to become Facebook “friends” they have to approve you before you can be connected. Slightly more formal than Twitter but less than LinkedIn.
However, on LinkedIn they’ve put up barriers that make it harder for you to connect with people. In order to send an invitation to connect, you must already have some sort of relationship with that person. You need to work together, belong to the same group, have worked at the same company at some point in your history. If you don’t have any commonalities in your profiles, you have the option of choosing “other” at which point LinkedIn will ask you for the person’s e-mail address. The idea is to cut down on SPAM and ensure your LinkedIn network is of true value to everyone.
That being said, it doesn’t mean you can’t connect with people you don’t are ready know on LinkedIn, it’s just a little harder to do.
On LinkedIn I’m what’s known as an Open Networker. I am happy to receive appropriate invitations from people I don’t already know. I like meeting other business professionals because I never know who will be my next great customer, a great referrer or who I might be able to help.
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Earlier this month LinkedIn announced it had added a new feature to the site. You can now reorganize your profile. Sections you would like to highlight can now be moved to the top of your profile simply and easily.
How is this helpful? If you are a recent graduate with work experience not related to the jobs you are looking for, moving your education ahead of your experience might be helpful. If you’ve added an application like importing your blog you might want to move that up or down. Perhaps you have a lot of recommendations. Maybe having them above your work experience would be more beneficial to you.
There are some drawbacks. Many Read More→
I just watched a YouTube video by TweetDeck about their new version. I’ve been using TweetDeck for a while to manage my Twitter account and I already thought the previous update was a huge improvement. But version 0.32 just blew my mind. I could barely wait to get the update.
Some of the new features include the ability to update LinkedIn (yea!) and have a LinkedIn column showing your connections updates. You can also view and add Twitter Lists from within TweetDeck. I love the lists feature and was spending more time at Twitter.com because of them. But having the lists in TweetDeck means I can stop flipping back and forth.
There’s a whole lot more to learn, so watch the video. It will tell you everything you need to know. Then head on over to TweetDeck and get the new version!
Andrea J. Stenberg
Many small business owners view social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter as an exciting new shortcut for marketing their business. They think social media magical solution; if they sign up customers will flock to their website or store front. It’s as if marketing no longer has to be work.
Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I’m here to tell you that it’s just not true. Whether you are using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or some other social media site, the truth of the matter is the people who get true value out of social media are those who put in the hard work. If it were truly easy, everyone would be getting rich.
What hard work?
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