Informed: the podcast for LinkedIn® users

468. Engaging posts and time stamps


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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:

  • Changing the skin tone in emojis
  • “Quiet Piggy”

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

This feels a bit meta but here are some things related to the development and marketing of the podcast:

  • There’s a new page at espirian.co.uk/informed
  • There’s a new banner image as part of my rotating Premium banner
  • I’ve invited 250 people (the monthly limit) to follow the company page
  • There were ~1000 downloads for episodes 466 & 467 – thanks!

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