by Karen Brown | Apr 14, 2015 | Networking skills
Tomorrow I’m booked to attend the #Bizpartyinspires Conference in Dublin. The people who have booked to attend the conference are all part of a Twitter chat group that happens on Wednesday nights, so it will be really great to put faces to Twitter handles and...
by Karen Brown | Apr 13, 2015 | Author Platform, LinkedIn network, Networking skills
Whether you’re using LinkedIn for business or for finding the next job, networking is essential to achieve both aims. The place to network on LinkedIn is via LinkedIn groups. There are over 2 million groups on LinkedIn, with the largest group being made up of...
by Karen Brown | Apr 11, 2015 | Author Platform, LinkedIn profiles, Personal branding
The cornerstone of your professional brand is your LinkedIn profile, so any mistakes made here will affect your personal branding efforts. Here are 60 common mistakes that I’ve come across when I do LinkedIn profile assessments: Your name Names in lower case....
by Karen Brown | Apr 10, 2015 | Personal branding
Yesterday, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner announced that LinkedIn were acquiring the premium online course platform Lynda.com. The aim is to create a platform that combines their Economic Graph data, what skills are needed in a geographical area, and courses that meet that...
by Karen Brown | Apr 9, 2015 | Personal branding
I love movies. From Laurel and Hardy to Dumb and Dumber, I could spend days in the cinema. One of my favourite movies from the 80s is Working Girl, starring Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith. You know the story: secretary is done wrong by her female...
by Karen Brown | Apr 8, 2015 | Author Platform, LinkedIn network, Personal branding
The cornerstone of your personal branding arsenal is your professional image. Does yours measure up? Last month, I had a look at Photofeeler and got some feedback on the photo that I use pretty much everywhere. What Photofeeler does is ask you to rate 10 images...
