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I Miss Being Able To See Profiles In LinkedIn :(
I went to a third degree contact’s profile to critique it and I saw very little of the profile. In fact, in the search results I saw the picture of the person, and I didn’t see that in the profile....
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Is it James or Jimmy or Jim or JimBob? LinkedIn First Names…
My name is Jason. I go by Jason. You can call me Jay (or, “J”), but hardly anyone does. Rarely I’ve been called Jase. I don’t really care… call me whatever you want. Most people just call me…...
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Getting No Response from LinkedIn Connections? My thoughts…
I got this email from a friend and JibberJobber user: As you know, I am looking for work. Each time I find a job ad, I look for a LinkedIn connection to find out if the job is active or who is the...
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LinkedIn Invitations: I need an easier way to IGNORE (or flag)
Check out this Profile, which looks fake to me: When I get the email from LinkedIn, I can “accept the invitation.” If I want to check out the person’s page, I can “Accept invitation.” But what if I...
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LinkedIn 500 Club (??): Why one person says you should have 500+ Connections
The QvQ debate (quality vs. quantity) is tiring. I don’t care what you choose. And I’m not going to try to change your thinking. Needed to get that out of the way so this doesn’t become a post about...
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LinkedIn Contacts Export
Friday I talked about backing up your Profile to a pdf… a very important thing to do. You should also backup your Contacts. In this post I want to share what LinkedIn is sending you when they export...
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LinkedIn Maintenance Part II: Backup your CONTACTS #PSA
Friday I showed you how to backup your LinkedIn Profile, which is something you might want to do once a year. Here’s something you might want to do as regularly as once a month: backup your first...
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LinkedIn etiquette question
Here’s a question I recently got from a reader. His question is in bold, my response is not. >> Is it appropriate to make connections with 2nd degree people on the lists of your connections as...
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LinkedIn: Like vs Share vs Comment
I want you to be my evangelist. And, you should want others to be your evangelist. If you don’t agree, we have a problem Anyway, let me explain the difference between Like, Share and Comments on...
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Peter or Pete? Joseph or Joe? Use LinkedIn Recommendations to find out…
I don’t go by my first name, I go by my middle name. If you call me by my first name I know you got my name from some government list or something like that. You immediately disqualify yourself from...
View ArticleIs LinkedIn the Creepiest Social Network?
What a strong title! It is from Gizmodo: Is LinkedIn the Creepiest Social Network? The author is wondering where the data comes from for People You May Know and People Also Viewed. Worth a read…
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Sending Mass Emails To Your First Degree Contacts
I’ve finally gotten around to playing with sending messages to my first degree contacts. The way I’m doing it now is 50 at a time, through LinkedIn’s mail server. Simply mouse over the Inbox menu...
View ArticleWhat is more important: Content or Size of Network?
On my JibberJobber blog I wrote about Pete Danielsen’s killer LinkedIn Summary. Rick commented on the post, saying: “The summary is great, but the thing that stands out about his profile is the lack of...
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How to remove contacts on LinkedIn
I’m doing my regular maintenance and cleaning up my network a bit… the horribly tedious way of removing connections has… disappeared. It took some hunting around (spent way too much time on LinkedIn...
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LinkedIn Spammers: Spam you, then leave your network??
I got a couple of spam messages last week and went to remove the connections. But when I went there, it didn’t show these people as 1st degree contacts. Here’s the message I got, from two people who...
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Why is it so hard to add a new Contact?
I was doing work with someone recently and asked for a link to her Profile. I didn’t find it on a search, possibly because she is a third degree contact. She sent me her link and I went there… of...
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Who do I connect with on LinkedIn? People I know and trust, or everyone?
I know, this is a tired debate of QvQ (or Quality vs Quantity). I maintain that different people, with different circumstances and objectives, should have a different position on the spectrum of QvQ....
View ArticleLinkedIn CRM: beware and be aware
Recently I was asked about using LinkedIn as a CRM, which means putting in information about your Contacts without them knowing about it (notes, phone numbers, etc.). I wrote about a HUGE issue here:...
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How to find people on the internet (free people search tool)
As I was researching for a post last week about doing x-ray searches on LinkedIn, I came across a cool tool. First, check out my post on x-ray searches and try it out. It’s pretty easy: Do deeper and...
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A great redesign in an email from LinkedIn
I get down on LinkedIn regularly, but here’s something they did really well. I’m not changing my position on skills and endorsements, I still think they are beyond ridiculous. This post is about the...
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