You have extra season tickets for Red Sox games. How you could use LinkedIn to help make great business connections, and maybe someday make some new referrals and sales.

LinkedIn may now use your picture to advertise other products. Change privacy settings if you don’t like this.

Before you call a prospect, check their interests. Or you can look for interests in a “reverse direction”

This is a 90 second “rap” that I did in a social media keynote speech at the LOMA Insurance Conference in Las Vegas last October. And it ain’t worth 50 cent.

Whether you want to make a sale, get a job, or network for business, it’s a good idea to be connected to powerful people like CEOs, but it’s tough to get their attention. Here’s a unique and original idea that might get you some positive attention from some CEOs and other Chief Officers.

LinkedIn just added a feature that allows you to “hide” status updates from people who post every time they add a new condiment to their sandwich.

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.

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.