Informed: the podcast for LinkedIn® users

Two main subjects this week;   How do you feel about your home page these days?   The future for LinkedIn?   Firstly there was one small news item worth a mention this week;   LinkedIn CEO donating his multi-million stock package to staff     Your LinkedIn homepage   We see it every time we log in but how much notice do you really take?   If you haven’t done...

Back from a week in the sun and raring to go, this week’s show I address some important considerations about LinkedIn’s future direction.   Main Story “LinkedIn is now, at best, a business card holder. At worst, it’s a delivery service for spam” It’s been a tough month for LinkedIn, disappointing results have led to many commentators really questioning their strategy and direction. Amongst th...

Now that we have passed 100 episodes, I thought it was time to give LinkedInformed a makeover. You will notice we have a new logo and the introduction music is different but more importantly we have a new format for the show. I will no longer have a specific news section but I will obviously always talk each week about any important events that have occurred, if nothing important has happened I wi...

News LinkedIn retire their Connected app. Meet the homeless beggar who accepts credit cards and has a LinkedIn page. The Sun show their normal level of accuracy - just look at his profile  Manchester needs cameramen and Twitter experts, says LinkedIn Comments Episode 1 Episode 2   Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 12 Episode 14 Episode 18 Episode 25 Episode 36 Episode 38   Episode 40 Epis...

News LinkedIn is once again driving big traffic to publishers LinkedIn sees jump in referral traffic to publishers after app redesign The most read person in human history LinkedIn release a free e-book on social selling LinkedIn ask app users for feedback   Commentary   With all this controversy about how LinkedIn reports its post views numbers and how it distributes published posts I t...

News LinkedIn hits 20 million members in the UK   How many users are actually active though? I estimate the figure is nearer to 6-8 million that are regularly using LinkedIn - still an impressive number! LinkedIn announce UK top 10 power profiles (most viewed) in 6 categories Is a LinkedIn takeover of the Financial Times as crazy as it sounds? Top Seven Stupidest Titles on LinkedIn   The...

Welcome to a new episode of LinkedInformed, here are the main topics covered this week. News New feature coming - videos are starting to autoplay (without sound) in the homepage feed. This is not something I have seen first hand but John Nemo covered it in a recent post This guy wrote to all 1,109 of his LinkedIn connections last year. Are LinkedIn falsely reporting their page view numbers? Itai L...

The bizarre behaviour of LinkedIn users! Welcome to episode 96. Christmas seems a distant memory and I am very much into the swing of things again now. News A lawyers LinkedIn profile is ‘not an advertisement’ states a US Bar Association. LinkedIn’s worst ever chat up lines. The new auto viewing tool called Profile Hopper I was interviewed this week for Motor Trader Radio. You can listen to the re...

Welcome to episode 95 and more importantly welcome to 2016! News French social network Viadeo has closed it’s Chinese LinkedIn competitor Tianji Data Shows How Google Drives Search Traffic To LinkedIn   A quick review of the main events of 2015   The biggest story of the year involved Barrister Charlotte Proudman rebuking a senior solicitor for complimenting her on her LinkedIn profile p...

LinkedIn revamps its job section. LinkedIn announced there top voices for 2015  and Paul Drury decides to crowd source his own list from real LinkedIn users (without editorial or commercial bias). Brynne Tillman and her social sales GPS team write an open letter to Jeff Weiner. Nintendo create a profile for Mario Bros which is quickly taken down by LinkedIn.  A London based recruitment f...

The new mobile seems to be getting decent reviews but these are from people who rarely use LinkedIn and are therefore not able to see its faults. Linkedin recruit 100 new people in Dublin and manage to persuade the Taoiseach Enda Kenny to attend an event at their offices by persuading his office that Dublin was LinkedIn’s ‘worldwide headquarters!  Commentary LinkedIn new iOS mobile app review...

Quote; “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."   [ Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America ; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26...

NEWS Naomi Lewis wrote an article for ‘Look Magazine’ Here is the new LinkedIn sales tool called elink . It looks expensive but maybe an option to Autopilot if your market is very active on Twitter. A LinkedIn success story . A start-up founder get his funding by connecting and building trust with someone in Australia who knew someone who wanted to invest.   Shocking sexist job ad by a c...

News    3 charts that prove that LinkedIn is on fire! This article’s most interesting fact is the comparable rate of member/user growth amongst the three main social networks.  Woman creates fake LinkedIn profile to give credibility to her Disney scam. This is a timely warning that we should all check that the listed employees associated to our company pages are legitimate.  &n...

Welcome to a new episode of the award-winning LinkedIn podcast. This week I covered a wide variety of topics.   News   LinkedIn announced their new Air Traffic Control (ATC) platform for improving the quality and quantity of messages and notifications we receive from LinkedIn.  LinkedIn appeared to have ambitious plans for Lynda.com  Profile view daily limits have reduced...

News Tinder versus LinkedIn profile pictures Hillary Clinton and her views on LinkedIn in the past Ladbrokes are using LinkedIn to find customers LinkedIn has a new head of Europe  Legal problem of Linkedin on who owns your profile LinkedIn overhauled its strategy for Sales Navigator LinkedIn China’s new professional networking app Red Rabbit   Mentioned in this episode: This show w...

A big change of scenery this week as I take the podcast out 'on the road' to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. LinkedIn has always been very popular in The Netherlands and as a result some of the most respected LinkedIn experts in the world are found there so this week I jumped on a flight to go and have a chat with two of my favourite LinkedIn trainers Perry Van Beek and Petra Fisher. News Sydney uni...

News More details emerge about LinkedIn new ProFinder trial Have you played the LinkedIn name game? New thought leaders are invited to publish for the upcoming new app The LinkedIn plugin that works out how old you are! Group messages will return Is this the most authentic profile ever on LinkedIn? Commentary Group messaging is still possible - workaround hack How to post GIFs on LinkedIn Question...

A critical look at LinkedIn groups. Mentioned in this episode: This show was created by the original host of the show, Mark Williams.

News LinkedIn agree to payout $13m to disgruntled users who feel their email contacts have been spammed. LinkedIn and Microsoft announce deeper integration with Cortana . Bond announce deeper integration with LinkedIn for their recruiting database product Adapt Commentary New LinkedIn messages function update, originally covered in episode 82 . Muting conversation only stops the email notification...

In this special episode I take a break from the normal format to concentrate fully on a comprehensive review of LinkedIn's Sales Navigator product. I believe that this product is critical to the future of LinkedIn who are still trying to break away from an unhealthy reliance on their flagship Recruiter product so I thought it was about time I upgraded and gave Sales Navigator a thorough appraisal....

A review of LinkedIn's messaging app. Mentioned in this episode: This show was created by the original host of the show, Mark Williams.

LinkedIn wins a UK podcasting award. Mentioned in this episode: This show was created by the original host of the show, Mark Williams.

New LinkedIn Acquisition. Fliptop, the lead scoring business announces LinkedIn takeover LinkedIn launch a new app called Lookup Foreign spies use LinkedIn to recruit civil servants Ex Tesla engineer joins Apple - How LinkedIn profiles are making corporate secrets harder to keep! Slideshape changes it's name to 'LinkedIn Slideshare' and announces an interesting new feature called clipping. It woul...

A change from the normal format this week as I interview the team behind Autopilot for LinkedIn. A system that allows you to view multiple profiles automatically. On the call are Scott Offord and Philip Cardwell I have been using Autopilot for about 10 weeks now and i have been really impressed with the results It is really important to note that using Autopilot is NOT just about getting profile v...