How to Network Using LinkedIn Groups | Social Media Examiner

Groups continue to be one of LinkedIn’s most powerful opportunities for networking, but finding the right Group and using it correctly can be confusing. Thanks to Stephanie Sammons, posting over at Social Media Examiner, for giving step-by-step instructions for becoming a LinkedIn Group Ninja: How to Network Using LinkedIn Groups | Social Media Examiner.

Sick of Stock Photos? Use Memes to Liven Up Your Content.

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(This post originally appeared on the Resonance Content Marketing Blog.) It’s no secret that the social Web has gone visual in a big way. According to recent research by HubSpot, images on Facebook receive 53% more Likes and 104% more comments than the average post. LinkedIn just launched new capabilities for adding visuals to your [...]

A Brief History of LinkedIn

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In late 2002, Reid recruits a team of old colleagues from SocialNet and PayPal to work on a new idea. Six months later, LinkedIn launches. Growth is slow at first—as few as 20 signups on some days—but, by the fall, it shows enough promise to attract an investment from Sequoia Capital. via A Brief History [...]

4 Tips to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile « t2Social

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  I signed up for LinkedIn back in 2007 – it was my very first experience on any of the major social media platforms! It remains one of my favorites, and I have endured many of its changes over the past couple of years. It’s a great place to be, and there are always ways [...]

LinkedIn Connections-Must have your Email to connect

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Did you know you can limit LinkedIn invitations to people who have your email address? Great feature if you want to only receive invitations from people who have a personal connection. Thanks for the tip, Shelley Roth! LinkedIn Connections-Must have your Email to connect – YouTube.

10 best Linkedin Features for Your Business

LinkedIn has lots of hidden “gems” that can bring in great results for businesses – if only they knew about them! LinkedIn may not be the most exciting or fun social network out there, but it’s an amazing tool for businesses – if you master it and make full use of its features you can [...]

Social Media Spring Cleaning: 5 Tips to Brush Up Your B2B Brand

I am a fan of Wind Mill Networking. Neal Schaffer is a recognized leader in helping businesses to strategically leverage and maximize ROI from social business. This happens to be a guest post and a good one at that. This monthly Social Media for B2B Branding column is contributed by Joellyn “Joey” Sargent. As principal [...]

Creating Presentations That Rock!

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http://www.slideshare.net/slidecomet/how-to-create-presentation-slides-that-are-out-of-this-world-by-slidecomet-17979318 Here is a great SlideShare piece by Slide Comet, @slidecomet, on creating fabulous compelling, influential presentations. I really like all of the terrific advice and how-tos here about slide layouts, visuals, text, amount of information to include, and how to put it all together. I particularly like the examples shared. It really is a wonderful resource. [...]

Why the Blog Post Is the New Ad Unit

  I noticed this post and had to curate it. I actually think even curation is the new ad unit, which incidentally has many of the same benefits as a blog post. The author of this post lists 13 great reasons to think about. Back at the turn of the century, blogging was in a [...]

Linkedin Enhances Search With Facebook Like “Unified Search”

New autocomplete functionality and combined results are just a couple of the tweaks being launched with Linkedin’s new Unified Search. Its similarities to Facebook’s Graph Search are many, as it’s a search functionality focused on your connections, groups and companies and not a wide sweep of the platform as a whole. As the article states: “The [...]

Swayy is a beautiful new dashboard for discovering and curating online content

Do we need 20 curations sites and platforms to help us find good content? Swayy is yet another new curation platform and apparently it is from the author’s account at The Next Web, very very good. I hope it is, and I do believe we need the right mixture of human and algorithm because well [...]

Which LinkedIn Invitations Should I Accept?

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Can’t see the SlideShare? Which LinkedIn Invitations Should I Accept? from Resonance Content Marketing Today we’re continuing our SlideShare video series called FTQs (Frequently Tweeted Questions) by addressing the question:“Which LinkedIn invitations should I accept?” In today’s video, we’ll cover: What it means to be connected on LinkedIn How I use LinkedIn as a networking [...]