LinkedIn is more than just Facebook in a business suit. Perhaps most importantly, LinkedIn allows for easy touches that build business and relationships. More and more professional services firms are starting to realize this, which may be why LinkedIn overtook Twitter and Facebook as the most popular social network for B2B marketers in 2012. Still, many professionals are not using LinkedIn to build meaningful relationships that could become the lifeblood of new business. Others want to engage their LinkedIn network but aren’t sure where to begin. MORE >>

LinkedIn has decided to purchase SlideShare for $119 million in cash and stock. If you’re scratching your head on just why LinkedIn would spend all that dough on SlideShare, let me offer five big reasons. It Makes LinkedIn More Engaging. While LinkedIn started out essentially as the combo of an online resume and rolodex, it’s tried a variety of tactics to make the site itself more sticky by getting people to share content. LinkedIn would love nothing more than to have its members treat it like the Facebook of career-related content. The C-Level Loves It. MORE >>

One area that we can always consider is emerging tools to help us be more productive and efficeint. Social Here are 5 great tools that you can kick-start your business in 2013: Convert Facebook Fans to customers with Agorapulse. Nimble is a Social CRM tool which is tightly integrated with social media channels and helps you manage and grow relationships with your contacts to ultimately leads to sales. The following shows a filter based on my name that was mentioned on blogs.  Mention is a very powerful tool with a reasonable price. Be more social using Nimble. MORE >>

Discover how to accomplish all of the tasks above and more using some of the coolest free and modestly priced social media and web tools released in the past year or so. Cool Social Media Tools. slick tool with free and fee-based options for creating graphical email signatures, adding interactive buttons and even tracking click-throughs from the different elements of your email signature. This tool makes unfollowing non-followers easy. free tool for finding the relative influence of any Twitter user. powerful people search tool. Other Cool Web Tools. MORE >>

LinkedIn isn’t just the world’s largest professional networking website–it’s an empire with over 200 million members at last count. Today, I’ve decided to focus on sharing tried-and-true tactics for writing a personal LinkedIn profile that can’t be ignored by your prospects or future connections. If you haven’t claimed your custom LinkedIn URL yet, your profile will be much more difficult to find, especially in Google. You can link to up to three websites from your LinkedIn profile, all of which contribute to positive SEO for the websites you own. MORE >>