Tips From The LinkedIn Diva – How to Represent Your Faith with Social Media

November 21, 2011

Social media is a unique platform. It offers the opportunity to connect and network with others on both personal and business platforms. I have found during my years as a LinkedIn trainer people often struggle with how much they should reveal about their personal lives online. Many people have asked specifically about how open they [...]

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Tips From The LinkedIn Diva – Interesting Strategy, but Still Not How to Get LinkedIn Recommendations

November 20, 2011

I recently had a very interesting request from a new contact. He was looking for me to endorse him based on profile and his high status as a strong networker in his country. I was impressed by his networking abilities, but didn’t think his idea really meshed well with how LinkedIn Recommendations should be used [...]

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Living Out Loud! LinkedIn Privacy and My Interview on NightTalker

November 11, 2011

This week I had the awesome experience of speaking with Michael David McGuire on his radio show, Nighttalker. We spent the time talking about various aspects of social media: privacy, tips, and mistakes. When Mike O’Neil and I decided to become the LinkedIn Rockstars, I really had to think about how much I was comfortable [...]

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Tips From The LinkedIn Diva – LinkedIn Pages gives Companies a Voice

November 8, 2011

There are many recent developments for your Company presence on LinkedIn, particularly via the Company Page. Most notable is the addition of Status Updates for Companies. Just like individuals can have status updates (and fancy ones at that), so now can companies. Want to learn how to update your Company Page? Status updates are posted [...]

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Tips from the LinkedIn Diva – How to save your profile on LinkedIn (read the End User License Agreement!)

November 4, 2011

Recently I was writing to a colleague on LinkedIn and I noticed one glaring error on her profile…. She had her email address in her name field! While this may seem like an innocent mistake, it can quickly get your profile shut down. I let her know: By the way, I’d love to help you [...]

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Tips from the LinkedIn Diva – When searching for a job, don’t paper the town with your resume

October 25, 2011

I received an unsolicited resume today along with a message that had me confused as to whether the sender was seeking employment or consulting work. It’s a really good example of what NOT to do in your job search. Dear Lori Ruff, I’m following up since our connection. I’m seeking Internet Marketing opportunities. Attached a [...]

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Tips From The LinkedIn Diva – A LION Gets his Teeth Back: Etiquette For LinkedIn Invitations and Messages

October 24, 2011

As we begin to use the internet and social media more and more often for business purposes, it becomes increasingly important to remember that etiquette applies to the internet world as well as the real. I recently received an email from a colleague asking to connect on LinkedIn… …the problem was he sent the same [...]

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Tips From The LinkedIn Dive – Number One ROI Social Media Implementation Tip

October 22, 2011

I was on a Skype chat with fellow online social media networking friend, Bevan Bird (On Twitter @Birdify), and he said he had just posted a discussion on one of his LinkedIn Groups:   What’s the highest ROI quick-to-implement social media tip you can give a small business? I had to Like the post but [...]

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Tips From The LinkedIn Diva – How To Communicate to Fellow Group Members on LinkedIn

October 20, 2011

I received a question from a connection recently about emailing from within LinkedIn. He was wondering if sending out too many emails to group members could get your account deleted for spamming. Groups are wonderful ways to make connections with people over similar interests, and can be great for advertising your business or services, but [...]

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Tips From The LinkedIn Diva – How to Determine the Tone of Your LinkedIn Summary & Profile

October 17, 2011

Recently I received an excellent question from a connection on LinkedIn that often comes up in discussions. What is your general recommendation about the tone your Bio should take on LinkedIn? If you compare networking on LinkedIn to networking in person, you realize that your profile and your bio are so important, they are the [...]

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Tips From The LinkedIn Diva – How To Send Email Messages via LinkedIn

October 11, 2011

Sometimes on LinkedIn, even the simplest things can seem confusing. I recently had a connection ask me about emailing people on LinkedIn, and that is actually a really good question. “How do you contact someone without upgrading your membership and having to pay?” The answer is actually a little convoluted. Unfortunately in the past some [...]

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Tips From The LinkedIn Diva – How To Balance LinkedIn Groups for Job Seekers

October 4, 2011

Today’s post comes from a recent conversation with a new connection.  She wanted to have a short conversation to spiff up her profile before heading into a new market for a job search. I directed her to my earlier post about connecting to people in a new city and then we talked about groups.  She [...]

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