FC - 5 tips. Whether it's Mark Zuckerberg talking about killing pigs or a Hollywood blockbuster under its belt, Facebook has plenty of attention in our lives. Twitter falls into the same camp. From Justin Bieber's noisy 10 million followers to hordes of social media gurus tweeting the benefits of 140 characters or less, it's easy to discover how and what makes Twitter work. However, there is one social network that lacks drama but makes up for it with a devoted business community and plenty of compelling features.
Here are five LinkedIn tips you should try today. 1. When you're logged in to LinkedIn, take a tour of a new-ish feature called Signal. 2. Go to "My Connections" to view a list of all your LinkedIn contacts. 3. If you've already filled out your LinkedIn profile information, it's easy to use it to create a foundation for a resume. 4. While, unlike Twitter, you might not find celebrities hanging out, you will find a wealth of relevant conversations within LinkedIn groups. 5. Visualize your LinkedIn network. 21 Ways To Build Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn | jorgensundberg. As a social media trainer, I get a few recurring LinkedIn questions in my workshops and seminars.
I thought I would compile a little list with questions and answers here, hopefully they will be useful to you. Most questions are related to sales, marketing and recruitment which is basically the type of professionals I tend to train. Here goes the 21 LinkedIn questions and answers: 1. LinkedIn operates a bit like Google did 10 years ago, the more keywords the better ranking you will get for a while. To get better ranking make sure to insert relevant keywords in your headline, in your job title and in your summary.
See more at How to Make Google Love Your LinkedIn Profile. 2. On LinkedIn, you can only see the people that are three degrees away from you or members of the same group. One of the worst kept secrets on LinkedIn is that you are able to see every public profile via search engines such as Google. See Glen Cathey’s post to get the lowdown on the X-Ray strings. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Missing the Subway. Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 & went native for its mobile apps. LinkedIn has just launched the latest versions of its mobile apps, and in a stunning reversal, it’s gone from mobile web-based apps back to fully native. Less than a year ago, the company was touting its iPad app as fully mobile-web based, with just one screen, the homescreen, running natively.
Now, all that’s gone, as is some of the optimism about the current capabilities of the mobile web. In a revealing chat with Kiran Prasad (pictured), LinkedIn’s senior director for mobile engineering, we learned exactly why — and it’s not what you think. Prasad said performance issues weren’t causing crashes or making the app run slowly. What he did say shows that HTML5 for the mobile web still has a bright future — but only if developers are willing to build the tools to support it. Here’s the bulk of our chat with Prasad on engineering topics around the new apps: VentureBeat: [interrupting interview about the app launch] Wait, let’s go back a second.