How to Hide Your Birthday on LinkedIn
It’s drummed into us a lot lately about cyber security, identity theft and fraud, and some people feel that having your birthday on your LinkedIn profile increases your risk of exposure to these types...
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LinkedIn Introduces “Find an Expert”
LinkedIn have recently started to roll out a feature called “Find an expert” which is aimed at helping users find a service provider for a task they want completed. Currently only available on the...
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The New Teammates Feature On LinkedIn
LinkedIn are currently piloting a new feature called Teammates. This isn’t available to everybody yet, but the idea is that this feature will “ensure you never miss an update from your team” and by...
View ArticleNetwork, Reach and Audience Are NOT the Same
With the continued rise of LinkedIn and other social platforms there is an increasing focus on audience, reach and network but quite often these terms are misused and muddled. To explain the difference...
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Time to Clean Up Your LinkedIn Connections Whilst You’re Working From Home?
We’ve written lots about the different approaches to LinkedIn and whether connecting a lot or being more selective could work well for you and you can read more about that here, but our view has always...
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How to Manage Your Followers on LinkedIn (and Why You Might Want To)
While your 1st-degree connections automatically follow your posts and articles, anyone can follow you, even if they’re not in your network. Following someone on LinkedIn means that you can see what...
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How to Update your LinkedIn Header Image (and What Makes a Good One)
We’ve all seen those profiles with the clever, branded and visually impressive images at the top, and I am often asked what should go in there, how to do it and more, so here’s a blog to explain the...
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How Can I Get to Become Admin on a LinkedIn Company Page?
Every LinkedIn company page has an admin (or number of admins) who is a LinkedIn user at your organisation rather than a specific email address and password. To administer a company page you need to be...
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#OpenToWork on LinkedIn
A recent new addition to LinkedIn is the #OpenToWork feature to help highlight to people viewing your profile that you are on the lookout for a new role and open to new job opportunities. To enable the...
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Name Pronunciation on Your LinkedIn Profile
We’ve all had one of those moments when you are due to meet, call or Zoom with someone and you look at their name and worry that you might get it wrong but no fear as LinkedIn might save the day....
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How to Change Your Location on LinkedIn
LinkedIn are always changing the platform and trying to make it better and they are changing the address system at present. This means your address on your profile might change but it doesn’t always...
View Article4 Things You Should Have Covered in Your LinkedIn Profile
There are over 430 million (yes I checked) articles with tips about your LinkedIn profile and , whilst I don’t want to add to that morass, there are some aspects that are mostly overlooked and hence...
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How to Add Rich Media, Website Links, Videos and More to Your LinkedIn Profile
We’ve all seen those profiles with little images, clips to click on and watch, and documents in profiles supporting what the person is trying to get across – their personality or maybe even a call to...
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How to Stop Receiving Invites to Join LinkedIn (Or Invites on the Wrong Email)
Not everyone wants to be a member of LinkedIn, yet sometimes you can keep receiving invitation emails to join again and again and, if you’ve no intention of joining LinkedIn, it can be a pain .. but...
View ArticleWhat Should I Say on Update Posts on LinkedIn?
Many people are unsure what they should say and how they should act on LinkedIn so I thought I would share some suggestions. Think about the posts on LinkedIn being the same as when you interact with...
View ArticleThe 3 Degrees of Connections on LinkedIn
Everybody has a network of connections on LinkedIn, but what do the three degrees of connections mean to you? Perhaps you’re more familiar with the Six Degrees of the actor Kevin Bacon or The Three...
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How to Write a Recommendation on LinkedIn (And if You Should)
As we all start to do more and more online it is becoming more and more important that you look as good online as you are in real life and I am not talking just about “that” photo on your LinkedIn...
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Why Recommendations on LinkedIn Matter and How to Request Them
An increasingly important aspect of your LinkedIn profile are recommendations as they can make a big and positive difference to your online reputation when someone looks you up or does their due...
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What’s the Average Profile Views on LinkedIn?
We’ve often wondered what the average number of profile views on LinkedIn was. This was prompted by peoples’ assumptions that their LinkedIn was working well for them as “some” people had looked at...
View ArticleHappy Birthday LinkedIn – It Turns 18 Today!
When you turn 18 it is the official end of your childhood and the beginning of adulthood and that feels like an appropriate view for LinkedIn. After officially starting on the 5th May 2003 it was on a...
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LinkedIn Service Page
Another recent addition to LinkedIn is the service page which according to LinkedIn is a “dedicated landing pages that showcase your services and businesses at no cost.” The idea is that this free tool...
View ArticleHow to Get Found More Often in the LinkedIn People Search
LinkedIn uses a proprietary algorithm to present search results to each individual user and no one knows exactly how it works, but we do know you can influence where you appear by doing some simple...
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Creator Mode on LinkedIn
In previous blogs we’ve told you about the introduction of Cover Story and Gender pronouns, this time we are looking at the roll out of Creator Mode for all profiles. This is part of the increasing...
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How to Log a Call With LinkedIn
We’ve all been there; something doesn’t work as we think it should or it’s broken and we need help. With LinkedIn the trouble starts when you try to find a human to help you. Hmm… none to be seen it...
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LinkedIn Goes Dark (Mode)
Not everyone wants LinkedIn to be the same, so LinkedIn increasingly supports different ways of using it and different approaches and the latest episode of this is Dark Mode. Not some ominous film, but...
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