300 invitations to connect on LinkedIn to review and counting. I’ve been working on requests to connect on LinkedIn this evening. Not requesting to connect with people, but responding to other professional’s requests to connect with me. Unfortunately, I can let invitations slide for a month or two, just hitting some on a hit and… Continue Reading
Category Archives: LinkedIn
Subscribe to LinkedIn RSS FeedSocialization of LinkedIn a networking opportunity for lawyers
Tech reporter for the LA Times, Paresh Dave (@peard33), writes that LinkedIn is becoming more like other social networks. With the new LinkedIn feature that lets individuals and companies share photos, documentates, and presentations in status updates, Dave sees LinkedIn getting in direct competition with Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. From Itamar Orgad (@iorgad), LinkedIn’s Senior Product Manager,… Continue Reading
Nine of ten executives use LinkedIn often
If I use LinkedIn, what’ll it do for me? That was a ‘Why should I?’ question thrown at a marketing director by a principal in a New York City law firm this week. I was asked by the marketing director to help them respond. There are ought to be special place in heaven for marketing… Continue Reading
LinkedIn is 10 years old : Now a personal CRM system for lawyers
LinkedIn turned 10 years old over the weekend. Rising from the depths of a dot com Winter, as co-founder, Reid Hoffman, called it, LinkedIn is now a successful public company with over 225 million members and almost $325 million in quarterly revenue. I found LinkedIn pretty scary when I first saw it in 2003. Why… Continue Reading
Personalized invite to connect on LinkedIn : You have to do it
I have received over 100 requests to connect on LinkedIn in the last three weeks. It’s hard to keep up with them all. I don’t just do a quick look at the name and title and hit ‘Accept.’ I open the person’s profile, see what they’re doing now, and what they’ve done historically. More often… Continue Reading
LinkedIn mobile upgrade a big win for lawyers
LinkedIn hadn’t updated its mobile app since 2011. The experience showed it. The mobile experience on LinkedIn, whether on a smart phone or tablet, was poor, at best, and a black eye for the company. Two months ago, I blogged that LinkedIn needed to clean up its mobile experience for the legal profession. Well they… Continue Reading
LinkedIn groups being hijacked by spammers?
I just accepted a request from ALM to join a LinkedIn Group they started for LegalTech West Coast that’s coming up in Los Angeles in June. Good show and conference. Good idea to set up a LinkedIn group for people interested in LegalTech, whether attending or not, to engage and share relevant insight. Maybe questions… Continue Reading
LinkedIn search enhancements : Big win for lawyers networking on LinkedIn
Johnathan Podemsky (@jpodemsky), Product Manager at LinkedIn, reports that LinkedIn has significantly upgraded search across the LinkedIn site. Though no Google, search on LinkedIn is nothing to sneeze at — and is arguably more important for lawyers as this is where professionals are found and scrutinized. Did you know 5.7 billion professionally oriented searches were done… Continue Reading
LinkedIn : Clean up mobile UI for the legal profession
LinkedIn is really coming up short for the legal profession in its mobile UI – at least on the iPhone and iPad. Just brushing the screen on my iPad displaying the profiles of people you may want to connect with (default page after many actions on LinkedIn) causes an invite to connect to go out…. Continue Reading
LinkedIn tops 200 million members : One simple way lawyers can use it
Per Mashable’s Todd Wasserman (@ToddWasserman), LinkedIn passed 200 million members today with about two people joining every second. LinkedIn’s rate of growth is faster than the company even expected. In its last earnings call on November 1 LinkedIn had 187 million members and expected growth of 10 to 15 million members per quarter. Now we… Continue Reading
7 ways for lawyers and law firms to use LinkedIn more effectively
Forget talking about developing a social media plan which plan will include how your law firm will use LinkedIn. Act and act now. For law firms and lawyers an effective LinkedIn presence is as important as a telephone. Don’t buy that? Well, it’s more important than a Martindale-Hubbell listing was, something we all believed critical… Continue Reading
Why don’t lawyers include contact information in LinkedIn profile?
I can’t think of a good reason not to. LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with more than 187 million members in over 200 countries. LinkedIn is adding new members at the rate of 2 per second. Phone books and local business directories look like chump change when compared to LinkedIn. So why is… Continue Reading
13 mistakes your law firm may be making on LinkedIn
With more than 2.6 million companies already having a LinkedIn Company Page, it’s become a necessity for law firms to have their own Company Page. With over 190 million professionals using LinkedIn, it’s become a necessity for lawyers to use LinkedIn, not only for a profile, but also for networking. Martindale-Hubbell was the directory of… Continue Reading
How college students can use LinkedIn
I was in Dallas last fall and getting a lift from the hotel to a restaurant by a nice young man working as a bell cap. I asked if he was going to school and if so, what his plans were. He explained he was graduating from SMU in the spring, but was struggling to find a… Continue Reading
Will LinkedIn endorsements effect search results?
I never thought of LinkedIn weighting endorsements in search results, but Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likeable Media (@DaveKerpen), writes in Inc. that LinkedIn endorsements change everything. For years, LinkedIn has offered recommendations as a way to get support from fellow professionals and businesses. If you received recommendations from other individuals, you garnered credibility, and were… Continue Reading