468. Engaging posts and time stamps

468. Engaging posts and time stamps

Thanks to Mark Williams for his kind farewell newsletter.

Postbag
  • Profile verification: to verify or not? (see more)
  • Post timing: when is best to post?
  • Recommendations: should they be up to date?

Other topics

Everyone is talking about algorithmic bias against women. I’m going to investigate.

A couple of text-plus-image posts:


Starting a post with a short bit of quoted text often seems to get me good engagement, as per the second example.

Why put a date and time stamp on posts? I wish LinkedIn would do something about this.

About the show

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  • There were ~1000 downloads for episodes 466 & 467 – thanks!

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