Oct 10
I’ve seen a big uptick in the number of people inviting me to Connect with them on LinkedIn — and a lot of my current connections are also adding people left and right. That’s not a particularly huge surprise since most of them work for the same company I do — one that recently said …
Aug 29
I’ve offered some tips in this space for beefing up your LinkedIn profile. Here’s a quick way to customize your profile and generate additional clicks to your website and/or blog. You don’t have to use the LinkedIn default for Website pages; you can provide visitors to your page the actual name of your site …
Jul 05
I recently helped someone set up his LinkedIn and Twitter accounts. He was new to the whole social-media thing and just wanted to dip his toe in the water — basically the same place I was a few years ago – so I put together a few tips for LinkedIn and Twitter to try to help him. My …
Jul 04
I’ve received a number of LinkedIn invitations recently. Some are from people who have been consulting out of necessity but for various reasons are now seeking full-time work. Others are from people who seem to have just thrown a profile up on the LinkedIn, in hopes something good will fall into their laps. Those have their …
Aug 31
Last week, I took my family to the Late Renoir exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and smiled at Renoir’s description of his work as “simplicity bordering on severity,” thinking that the notion of Bulldog Simplicity has been around for a long time. Then yesterday, I was cleaning out some files and came across …
Mar 25
I’m adding a new bullet to my What I Believe document up top, thanks to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. “Don’t let perfect get in the way of better,” Goodell says he told NFL owners and general managers debating changes to the league’s overtime system. Goodell may have been right when he said there’s probably a perfect system …
Mar 13
I’ve been helping some job seekers improve their LinkedIn profiles in an effort to increase the number of recruiters and potential employers who can find them online. Here are five ways I think you could improve your results if you’re not already doing them: Write a Compelling Headline. It’s one thing to list what you …
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