Musings on LinkedIn.
I’ve been using LinkedIn for many years and I keep changing how I use it. Below are just a few of my notes on how I’ve made use of the social network for work and networking.
– You don’t need to get to 500+ connections. There’s no game or points that you win if you do.
– You don’t have to connect to everyone you meet. Quality over quantity!
– If you’ve connected to someone and the only way you can contact them is through LinkedIn and they don’t respond to any messages over a period of 3 months, remove them as a connection. If you can’t communicate with them or introduce them to anyone then what use are they? Unless you want to follow their posts that is. Quality over quantity.
– People change jobs. Sometimes often. If you are using LinkedIn to connect to people in a certain field or industry and a connection changes to something you have no interest in, consider dropping the connection. It may sound mercenary but this is LinkedIn not Facebook.
– If you want certain people to reach out to you or be reminded of your existence without appearing to reach out first, look at their profile. LinkedIn will tell them you looked and your name will appear in their notifications list.
– You can silence spammy connections.
– You can subscribe to interesting newsletters and unsubscribe when they become boring.
– You can follow interesting people and companies and unfollow when they cease to provide whatever made you follow in the first place.
– LinkedIn is not for stalking but it is useful for OSINT.
– People post too much information. People leak sensitive data!
How do you use LinkedIn? Any tips?