Articles from July 2010

LinkedIn Workshop:
Getting the best out of LinkedIn

on 27 July, 2010 Comments Off -

Introduction to LinkedIn Workshop“How do you use Linkedin?” is a question that is asked by an increasing number of people, especially business people.

This is our next LinkedIn Group event and will be a chance for our LinkedIn Group members to engage in good old fashioned face to face networking while also uncovering some of the hidden depths of Linkedin.

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5 key elements of LinkedIn success

on 16 July, 2010 No comments as yet -

Using LinkedIn: 5 steps to successThere is an ever increasing body of evidence showing that LinkedIn is the place to be within the social media world if you are looking to gain serious traction in the online business networking world. It is also generally considered to be a great social media antidote to the (all too often) chaotic worlds of Facebook and Twitter.

However, it’s important to realise that using LinkedIn can still very time intensive like most social media tools, even if we make the most of integrating our other online tools and sharing information we create elsewhere (as well as on LinkedIn itself). It’s unfortunately true that the business world is littered with people who have tried to take on too much and suffered the consequences – the internet world, because of it very nature, offers us a range of tools and the ability to follow in those footsteps unless we go in with clear business objectives in mind!

Therefore, to gain all of the benefits that LinkedIn can offer without suffering the potential downsides, it’s important to

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Social Media Directors run Social Media Training and Social Media Courses as well as delivering Social Media Workshops. Onsite training is done nationally, but the social media training courses run near London in Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire focussing on locations such as Reading, Guildford and Bracknell. LinkedIn training and LinkedIn courses across the UK.