LinkedIn Groups

One of the Most Effective Ways of Growing Your LinkedIn Network

Tweet   While there are many ways of growing your LinkedIn network, I’d like to share one with you that is remarkably easy and effective, strategic, and likely one that you haven’t seen before. Here’s the short version: Convert highly connected group-only connections to 1st degree connections. Why is this so effective? There are a [...]

How-To's, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Groups

My SourceCon Presentation – LinkedIn: Beyond the Basics

Tweet   I was honored to be asked to present at the Dallas 2012 SourceCon event – which turned out to be the largest SourceCon event ever! When I was talking with Amybeth Hale back at the end of 2011 about what I’d like to present on, I asked if anyone had ever run a [...]

LinkedIn, LinkedIn Groups, LinkedIn Search, LinkedIn SEO, SourceCon, Sourcing

Do Recruiters Ruin LinkedIn?

Tweet   What do I mean by “ruin?” I’d rather let you run with the concept, but if you need a little more direction, this may help: In general – do you think that the activities undertaken by recruiters on LinkedIn have any negative repercussions on the LinkedIn experience for non-recruiters? If so, why, and [...]

InMails, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Groups, Mistakes

The 50 Largest LinkedIn Groups

Tweet At the time of this article, there were 1,236,675 LinkedIn groups. With so many groups, how do you find and choose which groups to join? Depending on your LinkedIn group strategy, you may be interested in finding the largest groups of a specific type. LinkedIn groups are very searchable, and when you start typing [...]

LinkedIn, LinkedIn Groups