Informed: the podcast for LinkedIn® users

News LinkedIn announce that publishing rights will be extended to 230 million users Taliban leader lists 'Jihad' as a skill on his profile Dutch footballer Demy de Zeeuw promotes himself on LinkedIn as available for a new club. Football agent posts that he is looking for the next Xavi or Kroos, on his LinkedIn page! Main Story - LinkedIn change search result visibility again. Commentary My LinkedI...

The  top 25 skills  that got people hired in 2014. Bryan Mills  (aka Liam Neeson) will endorse your skills if you  win a contest!  Interesting to see a major film studio using LinkedIn to promote its latest movie release (Taken 3) and even more interesting to that LinkedIn are completely fine with this! Could  Viadeo  be a  viable acquisition target &nb...

News LinkedIn have issued the following email to all premium members regarding the new InMail policy. This was originally announced to Recruiter and Sales Navigator users but as I suspected it is going to affect everyone (InMail is after all InMail!) LinkedIn Introduces a brand new design for their home page . My thoughts are that it looks very sparse (minimalistic) and has a 'mobile feel' to it -...

News LinkedIn have changed how we edit our profiles. I have produced a very short video (30 secs) to demonstrate the changes It would appear that LinkedIn are testing a new way to invite from someone's profile (desktop app), this means that clicking 'connect' will just send a standard message. In order to customise the message you now have to hover over the disclosure triangle and select 'personal...

All about LinkedIn best practice. Mentioned in this episode: This show was created by the original host of the show, Mark Williams.

News Jeff Weiner sells a fifth of his shares and nets a cool $10 million! You can read the detail  here  if you want to get green with envy! Facebook are rumoured to be planning a new ' Facebook at Work ' service which could be a rival to LinkedIn. I'm undecided on whether this would be a good thing or not but I also doubt Facebook will follow through on it. LinkedIn launch a new ' Cours...

Google did not acquire LinkedIn in 2014 – but Microsoft did in 2016. Mentioned in this episode: This show was created by the original host of the show, Mark Williams.

This week we complete the interview with social selling expert Darrel Griffin  (click on his picture below to see his LinkedIn profile) . Darrel's model for success is called SPEND  (statistics, purchasing journey, Edelman, next generation & digital disruption); statistics  92% of B2B buyers start their search online (Salesforce) B2B buyers complete 57% of the buying decision be...

News Apparently Microsoft attempted to buy LinkedIn for $500m prior to their IPO in 2011 but decided the price was too high. LinkedIn would cost them closer to $35 billion today! Sony have collaborated with LinkedIn to produce a business card reading app that synchronises with LinkedIn in the way that CardMunch used to. Does anyone know of any other apps that do the same? LinkedIn have announced t...

You can view Darrel's LinkedIn profile here Darrel's Story 25 years in sales, mainly in the UK. Wine trade, screen printing and signage. Moved to Perth, Western Australia in July 2012 - knew no-one! Business Development Manager role for a signage contractor Threw himself into LinkedIn Annual target exceeded within 4 months! 50% of sales came via LinkedIn Decided to aim to become Perth's social sel...

News Another lawsuit is filed against LinkedIn and this one is just plain ridiculous! Apparently the ability to read someone's background and perform a few checks on LinkedIn when considering recruiting them violates a US law. Read the full story here. Has the world gone mad?! LinkedIn plans to expand its publishing team. Its becoming increasing clear that publishing is a core focus for LinkedIn a...

How to find anyone on LinkedIn, with Katharine Robinson. Mentioned in this episode: This show was created by the original host of the show, Mark Williams.

Searching for jobs on LinkedIn Update. Last week I talked about the 5 ways you can search for jobs but someone has revealed a 6th way - searching or browsing through updates in a company page Some companies will have a specific 'careers' page on their company page (see top arrow) but you will also find jobs advertised in their status update stream (see bottom arrow) News New  YOUniversity sec...

News More shareholders sell their LinkedIn shares. Is this news anymore? LinkedIn state that Mozilla Firefox is the most compatible browser for LinkedIn and that they are not fully compatible with other browsers. LinkedIn make some changes to their terms of service this mainly relates to the ownership of published posts. InMail will be changing from 2015 . LinkedIn are abandoning the 7 day guarant...

News BeLinked. The new dating app that allows its users to find suitable dates via LinkedIn profiles. This makes perfect sense for BeLinked but is this a good idea for LinkedIn? LinkedIn Partners With Kaplan On 'Career Journey' Programme Irish judge allows papers to be served via LinkedIn account. Tips Status updates gets 3x more views and comments when you post a picture as opposed to allowing a...

News DIALaBRAIN  find an innovative way to use the media section of a profile (see below) LinkedIn Mobile (iOS & Android) apps now allow you to customize your invitation message. Its not very intuitive but at least it can be done! Here is how you do it (iOS) 1, Do not click on the link in the shortlist 2, Ignore 'connect' and click on the share link in the top right corner Write your mess...

News The way we receive invitation notifications has changed (see video below) I also mentioned 2 pieces of software to help with speedy messaging which were  TextExpander  for Mac or  Phrase Express  for PC. Feature retirement - InMaps is the latest to be culled. Unfortunately it is now too late to get your map as the site officially closed on 1st September. Here is a Techcrun...

News LinkedIn Settles Password Hacking Class Action Lawsuit for $1.25M The settlement terms provide that LinkedIn's paid users can submit a claim, but only if they declare that they read the privacy policy and were influenced by the company's statements about security. Between 2007 and 2012, LinkedIn garnered around 800,000 premium subscribers, who paid at least $19.95 a month for membership, acco...

Show Notes The UKPod14 conference was a great success and the keynote speaker was  Jason Van Orden  from  Internet Business Mastery . This podcast is unlikely to be found on iTunes until we receive more 5 star reviews. If you enjoy the show please help out by submitting a review. This  video  explains how it is done. You can now subscribe to this show on TuneIn.  Clic...

News Could this the beginning of the end of personalised invitations? Watch the video below to see what happened when inviting from a newly created profile Introductions. It is long longer possible to send introductions to 3rd tier connections. This was spotted by Andy Lopata and covered in this  post LinkedIn acquire Bizo - See official announcement  here This  article  takes...

News Not much happened this week other than LinkedIn getting stung for $6m for a labour violation regarding unpaid wages. The BBC article is  here Pay it Forward Wikipedia definition Question How can I save Pulse articles to read later? My solution is to use  Evernote  and their amazing  web clipper  but you can also use  Pocket Other links New course for job seekers...

Show Notes LinkedIn delivers encouraging Q2 financial results 313 million members 84m unique visitors 25bn page views (down 1bn from 1st qtr) $534m revenue - 47% year on year increase Talent Solutions makes up $322m of this - 49% increase Marketing $106m - 44% increase Premium Accounts - $105m - 44% increase See  full report  here LinkedIn acquires  Newsle   The new look ...

News - Custom profile backgrounds are now being rolled out to non premium users Andy's LinkedIn  profile Andy on  Twitter Mentioned in this episode: This show was created by the original host of the show, Mark Williams.

LinkedIn update their Contacts app and rename it Connected. Mentioned in this episode: This show was created by the original host of the show, Mark Williams.

You can now unsubscribe from published post notifications. Mentioned in this episode: This show was created by the original host of the show, Mark Williams.