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

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…

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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…

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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.

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Here are 3 tips for job hunters – change your professional headline, answer questions, and put the words “seeking” and “looking” in your profile.

“I hope it’s gonna make you notice, someone like me” – Kings Of Leon

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If you have Facebook friends who post their status 10 times a day, you can make them disappear, and they will never know about it. Ironically, Facebook hides the Hide feature. Learn by text or video.

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If you are having a local business event, and you want to send an email to your LinkedIn connections in Boston, how do you do it? It isn’t easy…

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You can hide your LinkedIn connections, even from your other connections, with a simple switch. Here is how you do it, but it does have a set of implications.

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I’m going to start giving tips on other areas of social media, like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, et cetera. This is an undocumented tip that will double your speed when you are looking through Facebook pictures. The key is to use the right and left arrows.