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Using LinkedIn on your smartphone for blog post ideas

LinkedIn mobile app blog posts

If you are like most Americans, you are spending more and more time on your smartphone.

Whether reading email, following Twitter, scrolling through your NewsFeed on Facebook or accepting requests to connect on LinkedIn, you are as apt to be using your iPhone or android as your laptop.

Not only is your smartphone more convenient, mobile apps are more user friendly than apps on your laptop. And why not? What 25 year old brilliant engineer wants to work on the past when the future is at hand.

With your smartphone already in hand, use it to get ideas for blog posts. Here’s how to do so on LinkedIn.

Here’s the homepage of the LinkedIn app on my iPhone.

LinkedIn Homepage

Touch the LinkedIn icon and the menu page will be displayed.

LinkedIn app Menu page

Tap the little flag at the top and you’ll see this notifications page. Notifications will include notifications of who viewed your profile and who commented or liked something you shared on LinkedIn (perhaps your blog post). But most notifications will reference posts published by your connections.

LinkedIn mobile app notifications

It used to be that the posts published by others was a firehose of content. “Please no more, I am getting a notification every 5 minutes” kind of thing. It was akin to spam, with many of the posts about items you had no interest in.

But LinkedIn has added an algorithm so as to surface items you have more of an interest in and from people with whom you have intersected in some capacity. Think Facebook and its algorithms surfacing relevant items in your NewsFeed.

Take a look at the content. Are there items you can share and comment on in your blog? You will be engaging the other party by linking to their name, their post, quoting them and adding your insight.

Better yet, like one of the posts or comment on a post right in the LinkedIn app. You can expand on your comment in a post on your blog. Repurposing comments which flow quickly in free thinking is a great way to generate blog posts.

Here’s a post displayed in the app which you can read, share, like and comment on.

LinkedIn Ed Poll Post

Also understand that this sort of blogging engagement is exactly what you want in blogging. You’re connected with these folks on LinkedIn. They’re the folks with whom you’re looking to build and nurture relationships. What better way to do so than to reach out and say “Hi” through a blog post where you are also giving them a shout out on your blog.

You have the LinkedIn app in your pocket, put it to work in your blogging.

Image courtesy of Flickr by Terry Chay

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