Social Media Tools Week: LinkedIn | Active Business Networking Tool
November 17, 2009 – Thanks to all of you who attended the webinar today on LinkedIn. My goal was to give you a step-by-step guide on how to use all of the features of LinkedIn to your advantage – from building a more robust and dynamic profile to how to use your 1st degree connections to tap into your much larger network of 2nd degree connections. I tried to give a perspective on how companies could take advantage of the networks of their employees to both prospect for new customers and maintain strong relationships with existing customers.
Presentation – LinkedIn: Active Business Networking Tool
Use this blog to ask questions or share with others any tips you may have about how to best use LinkedIn. The “Don’ts” are as valuable as the Do’s”. For example, many of you may have noticed that LinkedIn allows for those of you who have Twitter accounts to have your tweets automatically become Status Updates on LinkedIn. Personally, my followers on Twitter are a different group than my connections on LinkedIn, so I prefer – for the most part – to communicate different information. However, some people who want to take advantage of this feature have suddenly realized that having all of their tweet become Status Updates on LinkedIn is not only too much but too frequent information for their LinkedIn connections.
If you only want some of your tweets to become a Status Update on LinkedIn then, when you set up the Twitter integration under your Profile settings, make sure that you select option 2 below. This way you can use the tag #in or #li in your tweet to designate that you want this particular tweet converted to a Status Update.
- Share all tweets in your LinkedIn status.
- Share only tweets you send out that contain #in or #li. For example, sending a Twitterupdate that says, ‘working on a new product that could save millions of dollars for my company! #in’ will update your LinkedIn status.
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