Informed: the podcast for LinkedIn® users

News Group Managers can now send unlimited messages to their members in the 'participants' section. LinkedIn release information from their economic graph regarding job migration . LinkedIn joins up with that famous 'great leader'(?) Alex Ferguson to find great British business leaders (and help promote Ferguson's book!). Blabbing with Blam.im . Krishna De has created some excellent instructional...

Is this the end for Google Plus? LinkedIn Publishing now available for Portuguese speakers Publishing soon to cover other languages starting with French & German Presumably this provides opportunities for new INfluencers? Group discussions seem to be getting more likes. Have you noticed a difference? Finally the biggest news of all this week is that this show has been shortlisted in the manage...

LinkedIn's U-turn on connections. Mentioned in this episode: This show was created by the original host of the show, Mark Williams.

News    China passes 10 million LinkedIn members    Google+ share link disappears from published posts    There is a bug with skill endorsements    You can no longer download your connections! Well you can but it comes as part of the archive and takes a couple of days to arrive.    New LinkedIn Slideshare lead generation fe...

News Australian politician suffers extortion attempt via LinkedIn from a fake anti child trafficking advocate The best LinkedIn profile pictures are "slightly happy" This subject was also covered in my other podcast WinbussinesIn I was sexually harassed on LinkedIn and it made me question the site's credibility ...not me, that's the title of the article I referred to! I also mentioned the website...

News    Two new LinkedIn apps are rumoured to be in the works. A new Groups app and one called 'LookUp'.    Instant messaging may finally be coming to LinkedIn!    LinkedIn's new marketing podcast    Check out the LinkedIn profiles of your website visitors with this hack. Disclaimer - Do this at your own risk, I'm giving it a try on a dum...

Plenty to talk about in this week's show from Web clippers and extensions to LinkedIn admitting they too hate quiz updates! News Lynda.com shareholders cash in on LinkedIn takeover and cause LinkedIn's share price to fall. Evernote updates its web clipper allowing very useful integration with LinkedIn profiles. LinkedIn are now ranked as the 2nd largest job board in the world....even though they a...

News    LinkedIn have a private 'invite only' bug bounty program.    LinkedIn's 'Member first' focus apparently boosts satisfaction and engagement - really?    LinkedIn appoint a new Chief Marketing Officer.    Economic graph projects are appearing all over the world    LinkedIn IT department in top 10 places to work &...

News    Measuring Gender Diversity with LinkedIn Data    LinkedIn's weird names for software. An explanation.    Have you taken up the offer of a free trial of Lynda.com?    Viveka Von Rosen's excellent article on LinkedIn mobile    LinkedIn's economic graph comes to Manchester in an attempt to bridge the skills gap. This i...

News LinkedIn accused of making little progress on diversity Have you claimed your one dollar compensation yet? This published post claims that group messages are restricted to 15 a month! I can prove otherwise. LinkedIn skill endorsements 'chain mail' (below) comes to LinkedIn LinkedIn shared some interesting stats about their publishing platform this week. Commentary Have you registered your Lin...

In this show I talk about how we can all benefit by being more 'sociable' on LinkedIn but first, lets cover this weeks newsNews    LinkedIn group ownership protected in US legal case    Strange LinkedIn profile phrases spoken by actors in this video    LinkedIn invitations 'reason' can be seen after all, it's in the archive folder!    Lin...

News Senior LinkedIn Executive hints at why superusers are being ignored by stating they are " making products universally usable regardless of ability " Report claims that Twitter is now the number one social media tool for sales people - I really doubt it! LinkedIn engineer states "We have to constantly re-iterate the recommendation process and make sure that our members always get relevant resu...

News CEO's prefer LinkedIn & Twitter . In fact LinkedIn is the outright winner really! Why Asia matters for LinkedIn Unfortunate names on LinkedIn! LinkedIn are now restricting group messages to 50 a day. Hilary Clinton signs up to LinkedIn but hasn't put skills in her profile - sensible lady! I ndian woman 'outs' LinkedIn sexual harasser Commentary This week I interviewed a florist from Grims...

News Published post sharing via 3rd party apps appears to be broken, links go to main Pulse page. LinkedIn announce Economic graph challenge winners. LinkedIn stock drops to $193 Keen computer gamers are getting information about future game titles from LinkedIn profiles. This article and this one are two separate examples. Jeff Weiner admits "We are sending some members too many emails" ! Comment...

News LinkedIn imposes a limit of the number of group messages that can be sent. Confirmation that the commercial use limit on search is not just the amount of searches but also the number of profile views. Groups lose stats feature but gain a new 'about' page which includes the members section. 27,000 US intelligence staff on LinkedIn revealed in a recent report . LinkedIn introduce 'who's viewed...

News The LinkedIn advertising hack that gained a company $100,000 funding for a penny! LinkedIn Announce their Q1 results. Financial analysts are OK with the results but hate the revised prediction for Q2 and shares plummet! Sponsored update advertising grows by 40% and the number page views grows at impressive rate again. LinkedIn hints that the Lynda.com acquisition will result in 'cross selling...

News  LinkedIn applies for a patent to check the accuracy of facts and statements in profiles.  LinkedIn spends $500,000 on buying Reid Hoffman's new book.  $115,000 are donated to a local teen centre   America's three most hated companies ;  Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn!  This Chinese article about fake accounts is a timely reminder to us all. Are you frustrated wi...

News Yahoo Mail Contact cards Key senior executive leaves LinkedIn Update on the Lynda.com deal LinkedIn launch their new corporate Elevate product LinkedIn are top payers! Commentary Tip - This is what to do if you can't save a 2nd tier to contacts Keywords in name fields. It works from an optimisation perspective but it is still against the rules. Question How many different type of emails do Li...

News Character from Ex-Machina film has a LinkedIn profile - even though she is a robot! Update since recording - it looks as though this profile has been taken down. If you have a really good post that you believe should be featured in a channel on Pulse then you can try tweeting @linkedinpulse to ask if they can help to get it promoted.   Lynda.com is acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5billion! T...

News I had a reply from the person whose published post achieved over 3 million views and she doesn't know why it was so successful! LinkedIn acquire Refresh LinkedIn's April fool joke University offer premium accounts to 1000 students The latest big thing in social media? Periscope is a live video streaming app from Twitter and it is amazing! Commentary Interesting article that lists 10 LinkedIn...

News LinkedIn finally bring their Jobs app to Android A member increases their profile views by 425%! LinkedIn settles battle over email invites A LinkedIn post gets 3.3 million views...and they are not an Influencer! Interesting new 'search relevance' feature added to LinkedIn Recruiter Commentary The mystery of the 'Certified LinkedIn Publisher'. Brain De Haaf's profile and the Google search (be...

News LinkedIn Expands Efforts to Help Colleges Keep in Touch With Students and Alumni JP Morgan episode 3! Another financial firm acts like a communist state! LinkedIn acquires employee referral software firm Champion puzzle maker creates a LinkedIn crossword . 53% of the top 250 LinkedIn posts are not from Influencers. Excellent analysis of the characteristics of a successful LinkedIn published p...

News LinkedIn improve their sponsored InMail service The JP Morgan saga continues A new study analyses how 'happy' politicians are from their LinkedIn profile pictures Commentary Florist posts an image update that goes viral Two ways of searching that are outside of the commercial use limit; Alumni search Field of study search LinkedIn appear to be testing a new way of customizing invites Read thi...

News An insight into  LinkedIn's mobile strategy JP Morgan's global  Head of Technology  has sent out a  memo advising staff  to make their profiles sparse of information to prevent Recruiters from finding them on LinkedIn. Commentary Who has the keys to your profile? Add multiple email addresses to your LinkedIn account to prevent your employer from hijacking your account...

News LinkedIn pay a measly $1 compensation to users who had their password stolen. Company pages get a new feature - notifications. A bank is accused of asking it's employees to limit the information in their profiles so that they won't get headhunted. Company sue former sales employee for taking LinkedIn contacts with them and lose because the contact list was “easily discoverable through public...