LinkedIn Tips and Tweaks: Do More with your LinkedIn Account If you are on LinkedIn but haven’t had a chance to explore all the features yet, this quick LinkedIn guide should come in handy. It shares tweaks and some lesser known features of LinkedIn that help you do more with your profile. You should be logged into LinkedIn for any of these tips to work. 1.

Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You LinkedIn is a professional network built around one’s employment capabilities. People who use LinkedIn expertly, like Christopher S. Here are some thoughts on amping up your LinkedIn presence. chrisbrogan.com Covering social media business strategy and personal power Home

Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google Written by Bernard Lunn / May 21, 2008 11:15 AM / 12 Comments Business social network LinkedIn . Long time readers of this blog know that I have already chronicled my success at using LinkedIn for both business development and recruiting . ReadWriteWeb RWW Network

One of the great things about LinkedIn is the ability to start a group around an organization or topic. In managing this group and looking at successful examples as the Event Planning and Management  group founded by Julius Solaris , whom I’ve met virtually and one day will meet in person, I have these five simple tips for managing your LinkedIn group: Share it with Your Contacts : Finally, when you start a group, share it with your contacts by updating your status I co-manage the Virtual Events Forum which addresses topics related to virtual events and environments.

Like many of you, I’m using LinkedIn to connect with work friends and colleagues. But I’ve been intrigued by how LinkedIn has quietly developed into a useful lead generation tool for marketers and sales people to build relationships with potential customers. Here are 5 ways you can generate leads via LinkedIn: I’ve ve discovered that it’s a pretty simple process if you’re willing to invest the time to freely share your expertise and thought leadership with others.

From my perspective, LinkedIn has some interesting opportunities. Here's Here's my look at  LinkedIn in the brave new world of media pitching: Make Connections : LinkedIn's core purpose is to make connections - either with people you know or people you want to know. If you're seeking to connect with a journalist, you can request a "linkedin" In late April, I wanted to start exploring different ways that we can now pitch media. Besides my page about how to pitch bloggers , I looked into the new way of pitching via Twitter in my post titled," Brave New World of Media Pitching:

Wanting to know more about the various speakers from MarketingProfs this past week, I started looking some of them up on the web, subscribing to their blogs, checking them out on LinkedIn and trying to find them on Twitter. Speaker's blogs are listed if I could find them, otherwise their company link is there. If you're a speaker and want to share After finding a few, I thought it might be valuable for others. If anyone has more accurate info, feel free to share it.

It takes time and commitment, but LinkedIn has become ideal venue to nurture relationships and generate new leads, especially for sales people involved in a complex sale. On that topic, I wrote an guest article for MarketingProfs, titled " 10 Tips for Using LinkedIn to Generate Leads ." Read Are You the Missing Link? MarketingProfs decided to make it a "premium article" so it's available only to paid subscribers. You can read some of the ideas I shared in this summary article published by MarketingProfs.

I looked at if the agency had a blog, Twitter profile, Facebook page (both group and/or fan), LinkedIn Group I used the group search functions found on Facebook and LinkedIn respectively Almost all of the agencies did NOT link to their profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. A lot of PR firms are stating that they have social media capabilities and can help develop your strategy in this arena. So I thought, how many are actually practicing what they’re preaching?  

After talking with him - and asking lots of questions about his industry - I asked, "Have you tried LinkedIn?" What would I get from LinkedIn?" quot; For those of you who think LinkedIn is simply a place to post your resume when you need a job or to half-heartedly build a "network," it's time to revisit LinkedIn. We're pleased to present this post by guest author, Dianna Huff , who offers practical advice on how to find out more about -- and better connect with -- your prospects. A client of mine was seriously considering spending thousands of dollars to advertise in an industry trade journal in order to (hopefully) catch the attention of specific people in a very niche industry.