Advanced sourcing: smart searching with more relevant keywords (tip #4)
More synonyms = more relevant search results. If you want to get more relevant search results, then you must work with synonyms.
Advanced sourcing: image search (tip #3)
Make clever use of a special functionality of Google to search for (similar) images. Most likely you will find the LinkedIn profile as the first result!
Advanced sourcing: Reverse Engineering of a Search (tip #1)
This is the single most important tip because it is the foundation of a high quality approach in sourcing; reverse engineering of a search. Learn more.
First look at the new LinkedIn Navigation bar
There’s an on-going trend to simplify websites to make them more suitable for tablet-PCs and smartphones aka a mobile-first or tablet-first strategy. LinkedIn is also going this route and has made a few changes to the navigation bar. As I’m always one of the ‘lucky’ people to get the new releases first, I wanted to share […]
LinkedIn connects more than 25% of Dutch adults
The world’s largest professional network now connects more than a quarter of all Dutch adults, after LinkedIn passed the 4 million member mark in the Netherlands (with a total population of 16 million people). LinkedIn has established themselves as the social media platform where Dutch professionals come to talk business, with particularly strong engagement amongst […]
LinkedIn Search is REALLY improved and got smarter
A search on LinkedIn was never a good experience. But I’ve got some good news. Starting today, searching on LinkedIn has become better and smarter. No longer you need to search for people, companies, updates or jobs separately. All you need to do is type what you’re looking for into the search box and you’ll […]
Adding Rich Media to your LinkedIn Profile
With your New LinkedIn profile, applications like Slideshare Presentations, WordPress Blog and Events, will no longer be supported. Fortunately, because installing them was not easy, it didn’t alway work and had its limitations. But there is a new way to showcase rich content on your profile; presentations, videos, documents, and more than 100 other media (see full list […]
Identifying fake LinkedIn members
Being a group owner of a 100.000+ LinkedIn member group I’ve seen a lot of spam / fake accounts and block (‘Flag’) many spam accounts every day. Fake accounts are used by spammers who are after your email address by posting discussions or jobs in groups, with links to websites where you need to fill […]
Join my network [Cartoon]
Since you are a person I trust, I wanted to invite you to join my network on LinkedIn…
LinkedIn Polls: conducting research within communities
The strength of communities is the knowledge and experience that can be shared with each other. With LinkedIn Polls you can easily tap into ‘the wisdom of crowds’ and start a poll for free. Polls can be shared with your LinkedIn network and on Facebook or Twitter. LinkedIn Polls can be found in the Applications […]