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- Look into your network statistics to investigate with your profile and the people looking at you!
- New 'Tweak' to People Search allows quick access to share profile, referencing & messaging.
- Need to email LinkedIn Customer Services? [email protected]
- Details on LinkedIn's Privacy Policy can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/liprivacy
- DO NOT promote your company in your LinkedIn Summary as it breaches LinkedIn T&C's
- As per the Branding Guidelines, the word "LinkedIn" can only be used as a descriptive reference to LinkedIn or its services
- Control how you appear when people search for you on Google, Yahoo!, Bing, etc by editing your 'Public Profile'
- Search the events section for many free seminars, networking events & webinars available near you.
- 'Back Up' your LinkedIn profile by clicking on 'PDF' on your profile page.
- Your Activity Feed now shows group discussion posts, status updates & connections. Change in your account settings.
- As of January 31st, the Tweets module will disappear.
- Fill out the 'Experience' Section with your FULL work History for increased visibility.
- Female & changed your name when married? Display is after your surname in brackets to be found easier.
- Switch off notifications from groups that are primarily used for link sharing and direct marketing broadcast.
- Try adjusting your email filters to always receive emails from trusted email domains like LinkedIn.com
- Here's a Wikipedia List of useful social networking sites http://tinyurl.com/socsites12
- Search for your old classmates with LinkedIn Alumni/Classmates: http://www.linkedin.com/classmates
- Find some useful LinkedIn Videos at their YouTube Site: http://www.youtube.com/user/LinkedIn
- LinkedIn is also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LinkedIn
- You can add, change or remove email addresses on your LinkedIn account from the Account section of your Settings page
- LinkedIn Ads Business accounts must be tied to a Company Page on LinkedIn.
- LinkedIn Ads Business accounts don't have profiles or network connections & cannot be found in search
- The LinkedIn Audience Network is a collection of partner websites that display LinkedIn Ads on their pages
- The "Who's Viewed Your Profile" module tells you who's been looking at your profile recently & how many times you have shown up searches
- Common email domains like yahoo.com, gmail.com & hotmail.com can't be used when creating a company page
- You won't see enhanced profile stats if you have a free basic account and have set your privacy settings to remain anonymous
- You can download a 'Verification of Death' if you know someone who has passed away here: http://tinyurl.com/lideath
- The 'Verification of Death' form requires an email address registered to the deceased member's account
- Find HTML to create a 'Profile Badge' here: http://tinyurl.com/lihtml1
- Add a second email address to help make sure you never get accidentally locked out of your account
- Search for Service Providers and select based on trusted recommendations from people in your network
- Open group discussions can be seen by anyone on the web and can be shared on other social networking platforms
- Clearing your browser's cache and cookies can help resolve many different problems you might have when using LinkedIn.
Steve Smithson MCIPD