I was reading a LinkedIn profile the other day and it was almost a novella. It was full of lists of achievements, activities, services and publications which filled the available space. I assume what it was meant to do was highlight EVERYTHING the person had done, does, and would do. What it did was make… Read More The long and short of it
The need to interact with people is striking home really hard this week. I’m having super conversations which have been prompted by small sparks and diversions from existing activities. Since the loss of the Twitter/X #LDInsight chat, I’ve realised there is a definite need for people to connect and trade knowledge on an informal basis.… Read More Chat and nonsense
Don’t send me a connection request on LinkedIn and then, 2 days after I accept it, send me a DM with a cheesy and poor video advertising a product which I wouldn’t buy because I’m not your target market. I ‘know’ you’ve been told novelty works. I ‘know’ you’re trying to make a product look… Read More Don’t do this
Blogging daily and re-posting on LinkedIn is a bit of a pain, so I thought I’d try out the WordPress/Jetpack connecting tool. 2 days later, I disconnected it and went back to the previous way of doing things. It saves me a few minutes each day at the cost of several hundred post views. LinkedIn… Read More When algorithms don’t help
There is so much noise on LinkedIn it can be really difficult to find the good stuff. The way the algorithm works means the popular stuff rises to the top. But popular doesn’t mean good. If you’re not curating, searching and looking for the better stuff you’re relying on other people to tell you through… Read More Popular and worthy