111. The Mobile Dilemma

Welcome to episode 111, more of the

mobile dilemma later but I want to start with an ongoing issue that

everyone seems to be talking about;

It’s NOT

Facebook!

LinkedIn is clearly different to

Facebook in that it is a business & professional network but

it’s not different in that it is a network of people and it’s

social!

Rather than complain about

inappropriate posts wouldn’t it be better to pay more attention to

those connections who are posting more interesting content and

building stronger relationships with them?

I saw a comment this week which I

thought hit the nail on the head;

How about you focus on what you

do, what value you bring, who you help, who you identify, contact

in an authentic not all-about-you-and-what-you-want way, meet in

person, build rapport, work out how you might help each

other.

The key is to understand, truly

understand what you want out of being on LinkedIn (& out of

Business/Professional networking in general) and then... realize

it's all about people, other people. Get good at researching using

LinkedIn and 'what's in my feed' will be less of concern to you

because that won't be where you find the value. The value will be

in what YOU do.

Well said!

Interesting stuff I saw this

week

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• Lynda is now available on Apple
• TV
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• Recruiters welcome updated LinkedIn Recruiter
• product
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• LinkedIn passes 20 million users in
• China
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• LinkedIn top execs harvest pay
• raises
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I also came across this legend of

business on LinkedIn this week!

LinkedIn

changes

Some people are seeing the number of

followers on profiles rather than connections, this might be an

experiment, I don’t have it yet but it could just be in the early

stages of being rolled out.

We can now ‘like’ comments in status

updates

It is now possible to remove

yourself from a group conversation in Messages

The Field Of Study search is being

discontinued on May16th.

This weeks cool things is another

free Chrome extension called

Prophet.

This handy tool will often be able

to locate the email address of people you find on

LinkedIn.

AFQ

This weeks question came from James

Muir regarding the issue of only seeing the last ten

notifications.

James didn't specify whether this

was a desktop or mobile issue, so I have answered both;

Mobile

I suspect this is what you mean as I

only see the last ten on my app.

You can refine which updates you see

in the app notifications in your settings, this is done as

follows;

Go to the 'Me' section and click on

the settings 'cog' as below;

Now tap on 'Communications' and select 'Push

notifications' as below;

This will allow to reduce the amount

of less important notifications appearing in your last 10.

Alternatively, you can ensure that you receive emails to alert you

(see desktop solution below)

Desktop

Firstly I am not experiencing the

same issue on my account, I can see numerous updates going back

weeks. This may just be that the changes haven't reached my account

yet or it may also be a short-term glitch on your account. I know

that contradicts what the help center told you but it won't be the

first time they have given out incorrect information!

It is certainly worth logging out,

clearing cookies and trying again. If you haven't already done

so.

Secondly, there are a number of ways

around this;

If you are mainly interested in

responding to activity/comments on your updates and activity then

you should be able to do this by viewing your activity. Go to

Profile>Your updates - there you will see the last 2

weeks.

Alternatively, you could refine your

notifications by unsubscribing to certain ones that are of no

interest to you, this would mean that more of your important ones

will show in the last 10. This is done by clicking on the 'x' in

the top right of a notification.

Finally, you can compensate for the

lack of notifications by adjusting your email settings

> Go to settings

> Select

'communications'

> Select 'Email

frequency'

> Select

'Notifications'

> ensure 'Comments on posts you

publish' and 'Summary of your notifications' are set to

on

That’s it for this week, please feel

free to get in touch if you have any questions you would like me to

answer on the show.

Have a great week.

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This show was created by the original host of the show, Mark Williams.