Articles from September 2011

How to use LinkedIn for Business – Kingston

on 29 September, 2011 No comments as yet -

Social Media Directors have teamed up with Kingston Chamber of Commerce to offer their members an opportunity to get up to speed with LinkedIn.

Mark White will deliver our comprehensive workshop, which is constantly tweaked each month in-line with LinkedIn’s platform developments, ensuring all attendees walk away at the end of the day ready, willing and able to engage effectively on LinkedIn. Find out more…

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LinkedIn Answers on LinkedIn

on 27 September, 2011 No comments as yet -

I’ve just written this in response to a question asked on LinkedIn and so it seemed short sighted not to share the content on our blog. The question was asked by a chap called Peter Jones and you can add your two penneth on the actual LinkedIn answer post here.

Are LinkedIn Groups that prevent access to external blogs cutting the value their groups have to offer members?

My response was …

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How do you connect with people on LinkedIn?

on 27 September, 2011 No comments as yet -

Sometimes you connect with people slowly, other times more quickly. Some will never want to connect with a stranger, others will always open the door and say hello, fancy a cup of tea ;)

This morning I decided that I would send out …

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O2 Learn connect when they are young and stay engaged

on 24 September, 2011 No comments as yet -

o2 learn vote for winner

O2 Learn are running a national campaign to find those great teachers who inspire our youth.

The business end for O2 is gathering thousands of mobile phone numbers of young people who could be future O2 customers… and what a great way to do engage through social media.

Over the last year teachers have been …

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Combining LinkedIn training with corporate social responsibility

on 23 September, 2011 No comments as yet -

Add some social profit to your CSR accounts with this very useful LinkedIn training workshop for your sales and marketing teams

How to use LinkedIn for Business workshop
Date: 31st October 2011
Timings: 9:00 for 9:30am start, finishes around 4pm
Location: Thames Hospicecare, Hatch Lane, Windsor. SL4 3RW
Cost: £175 + VAT

At Social Media Directors we enable charities to offer our LinkedIn training to larger organisations as a way to add to their corporate social responsibility (CSR) social accounting ledger.

A few years ago popular local charities like …

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LinkedIn’s internal search needs an upgrade

on 21 September, 2011 1 comment so far -

LinkedIn needs to spend a few of its well earned bucks on a better search engine for the platform.

I ran a search this evening on the search string that is delivering the most searches to my profile on LinkedIn, namely “social media”. I filtered UK and found myself bottom of page 2… tad annoying, prefer to be page 1 toppish ;)

On investigation of the lady in the top spot it became apparent rapidly that …

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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.