Informed: the podcast for LinkedIn® users15 Elo 2015

78. What is a connection to you?

News

Group Managers can now send unlimited messages to their members in the 'participants' section.
LinkedIn release information from their economic graph regarding job migration.
LinkedIn joins up with that famous 'great leader'(?) Alex Ferguson to find great British business leaders (and help promote Ferguson's book!).
Blabbing with Blam.im. Krishna De has created some excellent instructional videos on blabbing here.
You can now buy .grip domains but LinkedIn.gripe is not available.
SSI update, I think that to improve my 'Engage with Insights' score the following four areas are important
Status updates and published posts
Comments and likes of both the above
Discussion activity in groups
InMail response rates

Commentary

What is a connection and does this change over time? The following post from a senior executive at Facebook got me thinking.
Is trimming your connections a good idea? I can see how it would help with engagement and that is a very important aspect of using LinkedIn but it would also reduce your opportunity for introductions. What do you think? Ping me your thoughts at mark@linkedinformed.com.
Here a classic example of the lowering of standards on LinkedIn. Should company profiles like this be permitted on a B2B professional network? (explicit warning)
Question
I have two profiles on LinkedIn, the one I don't use only has three connections. How can I close this account?
ANS = see below, you go to your settings under the 'Account' tab
My question for you;
How many 'Interesting' quotes did I get away with?
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