Welcome to another episode in what has been a difficult week for LinkedIn and many of its members.

I have two main topics to discuss this week;

• LinkedIn seize control of LinkedInLocal events
• LinkedIn had a meltdown this week with millions of users discovering that their profiles were invisible!

Welcome to episode 243, this week I want to return to the subject of native LinkedIn video. It’s been a while since I covered this and the techniques for this type of post has developed somewhat. I also have some interesting analaysis to share with you on the content in my hoe page feed. But first…

• Are we now going to get Brand Ambassadors on LinkedIn?
  • Oh please no! LinkedIn top voice and video creator String Nguyen has signed up with a video service and now much of her posts are boring promos!
• Microsoft and Adobe strengthen partnership to take on Salesforce using LinkedIn

For the rest go to  http://linkedinformed.com/episode243

Welcome to a new episode of LinkedInformed. It's been a very slow week for news about LinkedIn so I thought I would take the opportunity to focus on the subject of content and specifically the type of posts that typically attract comments and likes and therefore have greater reach.

For more go to  http://linkedinformed.com/episode242/

Welcome to this weeks show. So who do you follow on LinkedIn and why?

I’m not talking about who you connect with, that should be for different reasons (even though you do then follow them) but those people on LinkedIn that you purposely follow with the intention of seeing their activity, posts and articles in your feed.

Have you got a clear strategy or is it based on ad-hoc seeing ‘something good’ from someone and then following them’?

Welcome to a new episode and this week I will be focussing on a subject that I haven’t covered before on the podcast – Employer branding and it’s close cousin, employee advocacy.

If you are not interested in recruiting or working in HR then this might be an episode to skip but I do know there are plenty of listeners who do have a keen interest in using their company page for employer branding purposes and the activities of some of their employees for employee advocacy purposes.

For more information go to https://linkedinformed.com/episode240

Welcome to a new episode, this week we are back to talking about LinkedIn company pages.....but with a difference!

More of that later but as always firstly.......

• LinkedIn Updates Sales Navigator, Gets Closer to Salesforce
• LinkedIn announces the rebuild of three core talent tools to one platform
• LinkedIn debuts LinkedIn Live, a new live video broadcast service

Welcome to episode 238. I really struggled to think of a title for this episode because unlike most weeks, no one subject dominates!

That said, I have a lot to talk about in this episode.

Firstly, due to a family bereavement, I will not be producing an episode next week but will be back the week after.

For the remaining notes go to https://linkedinformed.com/episode238

Welcome to a new episode, this week I want to focus on attempting to answer one of the most common and complex questions I get about LinkedIn….Premium accounts – are they worth it?

More of that later……

• New Ways to Keep a Pulse on the Companies You Care About
• Five Things We Learned from Microsoft’s Earnings
• Introducing Interest Targeting
• LinkedIn Articles versus LinkedIn Posts/Updates
• Could it be that ‘Trending content in your area’ might actually be paid ads! Listener Mark Lee got in touch with this message “I saw a post on my home page yesterday. Linkedin was showing it to me allegedly because it was ‘Trending in London’. This was odd for two reasons. Firstly it contained a link to a newspaper article (so encouraged me to leave the Linkedin platform). The other reason it was odd was that the article was not able to be viewed by anyone outside the USA. So why was it trending in London? I don’t think it was. But equally, why would a foreign newspaper (or anyone else) sponsor a link to an article that can’t be viewed by the people who see the link? What is going on here?

For the rest of the show notes go to https://linkedinformed.com/episode237

Welcome to a new episode, this week is very different as the majority of this show will be dedicated to a talk that I'm giving this week on LinkedIn visibility and posting techniques.

But first I wanted to highlight three posts that each deserve a special mention, all for different reasons.

Go to http://linkedinformed.com/episode236/ for the more

Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a great break over the Christmas holiday. I had an ‘enjoyable at times and stressful at times’ break and as I  decided to completely switch off from all work matters, it has been a busy last 2 weeks catching up on everything.

The main subject this week is empathy. If you are a long time listener then you may recall that I covered this previously in episode 122. I’m aware that many of you have only started listening to the show more recently and many don’t listen to every episode so I decided to cover it again…mainly because it is such an important subject!

More of that later…..

• Lessons from my Linkedin experiment 2018
• The Contrepreneur interview with Mike Winnet
• LinkedIn Censored A Pro-Democracy Activist’s Profile In China
• LinkedIn now requires phone number verification for all users in China
• Facebook investigates ‘deceptive’ election operation backed by Reid Hoffman

For more, go to http://linkedinformed.com/episode235