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LinkedIn with Twitter

November 30th, 2009 John Lilley

A couple of weeks ago I found myself drawn away from using my usual www.ping.fm status broadcast tool. The reason? Simply because it was a fourth place I needed to go rather than inside of Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. These are the three tools where I use status updates the most.

There is now an Application in LinkedIn and also supported tags in Twitter. This allows me to broadcast status updates from either source. I can can tweet from Twitter and it will update my LinkedIn status, and vice versa as and when I need it to.

The integration within Twitter is simple. In your settings, you can link your LinkedIn account to your Twitter account.

Then you choose if you want to share all of your tweets on LinkedIn or just specific ones by using these hashtags: #li or #in.

On the LinkedIn side, there is an application that allows you to link your Twitter and LinkedIn accounts and choose if your Twitter account appears on your profile. When updating your status in LinkedIn there is now a  box that you can tick to get LinkedIn to tweet specific status updates

You have the choice of updating one or both from either LinkedIn or Twitter. Personally, I tend to Tweet about all sorts of random things that are going on or interest me. On LinkedIn I tend to limit my status updates to work related matters. Both Twitter and LinkedIn have different audiences although the difference is becoming less “black and white” and more a shade of grey!

Let me know how you use these tools and are there any other tools of this nature I should look at?

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LinkedIn Applications - Wordpress

November 25th, 2008 John Lilley

A few weeks ago LinkedIn added the feature to add applications to your profile page. I wanted to explore some of these and start to experiment in creating some learning material.

Take a look at the small tutorial below and let me know what you think.

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XING Expanding its European Reach

September 16th, 2008 John Lilley

Xing’s parent company, OPEN Business Club, has just announced that it has acquired a 100% interest Neurona, one of the largest business networks in Spain and Latin America, for an undisclosed amount.

Neurona is a professional network that has a large number of users that are active in Internet companies, expanding its niche groups as well. Xing has already acquired another Spanish network, eConozco, and has recently partnered with Zoominfo to power search tools for users.

I’d put XING as a priority site for you to build an online profile to optimise your personal brand and promote your skills online. Especially if you do business throughout Europe.

As far as B2B professional social networking site XING and LinkedIn are essentially to your online promotion strategy.

I have also heard Viadeo is strong in France in particular let me know your thoughts or any others you feel I am missing.

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