Undiscovered tips by “The LinkedIn Speaker” (I do NOT work for LinkedIn)

Want to see only status updates on Facebook so that you don’t have to see every time one of your friends buys pizza for someone else in Mafia Wars? Here’s how…

Want to find LinkedIn profiles for “out of network” people without paying LinkedIn $25? Here’s how you do it for free.

A subtle beta feature was added to LinkedIn that will save sales people time. If you “Search Companies”, it will now tell you who you know someone “through”.

Summary:

Put the name of your city (in text form) somewhere in your LinkedIn profile. Otherwise, you may not be found in searches.

Bit.ly results are actually public, and I’ll show you how to see how many clicks your competition is getting. I’ll also explain why you may not want them seeing your clicks.

LinkedIn and Twitter added a feature that allows you to cross-post, but it just embeds functionality that other software already had. Here are some limitations of LinkedIn status updates, and some features they should implement.

Finally, you can see only “status updates” in Facebook, and eliminate Mafia Wars, “What 80s character would you be”, etc…

Summary in under 140 characters:
If you go to someone’s Twitter page, you can now mark them as a spammer (under block xxxxxxxxxx)

LinkedIn has “invisible” bugs in the invitation process that may make you think you are sending a group of invitations when you really aren’t. Here’s an example of one, with a 3 minute video at the bottom…

Summary:

What happened? I used to be #1 in the search results for Patrick O’Malley in LinkedIn, and now I’m not even in the top 90! Did you check to see what happened to you?

This is basically a pointless rant.