Facebook biz app challenges, but LinkedIn’s fighting back
Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, wants into the business networking business. But LinkedIn’s countering with new moves – and apps – of its own.
If you’re over 40, you belong on LinkedIn
If you’ve sworn off online communities like Facebook because all people do there is goof off, join LinkedIn, the site that puts the work in social network.
New ways to use LinkedIn to find story sources
Twitter may get all the press right now, but if you write about business or need experts in any number of areas – medicine, careers, government – you can’t beat LinkedIn, the business online network with more than 40 million members, for finding story sources. Here are some of my favorite ways to use LinkedIn [...]
Is it OK to friend your editor on Facebook?
Social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have created all kinds of new work-related etiquette questions: Is it OK to post a link to that killer story you wrote for Ladies Home Journal on Twitter more than once – an hour? Does memorizing the LinkedIn profile of an editor you’d like to pitch constitute stalking? [...]
Social media 101 for small business
I spent Monday afternoon talking to small business owners at the ShopSymposium/09 conference here in Portland. The subject of the panel discussion I participated in: how small business owners can use social media without having it take over their lives. That’s not all the panel discussion covered – to track everything that was mentioned do [...]
Best of WordCount – LinkedIn tips for writers
While I’m on vacation this week, I’ll be rerunning some of the best WordCount posts of the year. Watch for new posts, including my predictions for the top digital media personalities to watch in 2009, starting January 5. Happy New Year! Today’s reruns: how writers can use LinkedIn, the business social network. The secret to [...]
Take this quiz to find out what kind of LinkedIn user you are
I’m a Savvy Networker. I know because I took this quiz and found out what kind of LinkedIn user I am. The quiz was created by Tom H.C. Anderson, head of a New York Web 2.0 market research firm called Anderson Analytics LLC. Anderson came up with the test so people could see where they [...]
Reposting – The secret to my LinkedIn success
I originally wrote this in September as a guest post for on The Renegade Writer blog. I’m reposting it here at the request of some freelance acquaintances. Last September I was getting ready to start writing again after spending most of the previous seven years at home with my kids. I was totally out of [...]
Link your WordPress, Six Apart blog to your LinkedIn profile
Ever since LinkedIn added a status update feature, the online business network’s members who blog – including lots of writers – have used it to let people know when they put new material online. Now LinkedIn’s made it even easier for bloggers to flag friends and acquaintances about new posts. The networking company has partnered [...]
The secret to my LinkedIn success
Today, I’m blogging over at The Renegade Writer, a Website for freelancers run by Linda Formichelli and Diana Burrell. The topic: The Secret to My LinkedIn Success. If you’ve been to WordCount before, you know I’m a huge LinkedIn fan, using it every day to troll for sources, manage contacts and participate in discussion groups. [...]
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