I gathered some tips and ways to take your LinkedIn profile up a level. Here are a few of them… 1.  Change the standard URL from linkedin.com/in/13?3a&3d  to a “vanity URL” so instead change it to this style: linkedin.com/in/blakeimeson This will allow you to rank for your name in the SERPs. 2. Use keywords you want [...]

I like the idea of linkedin as a way to connect with others in the professional world in order to show your network and strength, but I also have many reserves about this principle. First off, I really do not want other people knowing everyone in my network because well my connections are my connections. [...]

In today’s age, there seems to be such a large desire to be able to communicate with anyone at the drop of a hat. With facebook taking over the younger generations, this leaves older folk wanting something for themselves. Of course why would they want something that merely serves as a form of communication though, [...]

Business professionals are starting to turn to LinkedIn for networking and other business needs.  But how did LinkedIn start, and what were some of the goals of founder Reid Hoffman? According to an interview conducted by Nathan C. Kaiser, Hoffman had previously started a company called SocialNet, which was a dating, professional networking, activity, and roommate [...]

Facebook….MySpace….Twitter…..LinkedIn, and that is just naming a few of the many social networking sites that have become popular in the past few years. What makes one more valuable than other? Should I belong to multiple networking websites? Which one best fits my needs? Someone who is new to the idea of social networking via the Internet, [...]

Internet users are now used to getting many online services for free, like facebook, or online dictionaries, or just about any information that someone could want.  These services are free to the user because of online advertising. Advertising is used ubiquitously off of the internet to reduce cost to the consumer and increase profitability for the business.  Some [...]

Before Web 2.0, it would cost a lot of money to drive traffic to a website. Pay-per-click programs and web banners/ads were the cutting edge and came with a significant investment. Web 2.0, however, introduced a variety of tools to do more with less. StumbleUpon.com is an online community of user-generated referrals. Just as friends refer [...]

In his book, Effective Networking, Michael Hughes says the first five seconds of meeting someone new is the time when each party forms the most important perception about the other. The first impression is crucial to successful negotiating, interviewing, and networking. What would you do differently to make your first impression a good one? You can make [...]

First Impressions:  LinkedIn is definitely a more professional and older member of the social networking family tree, a well succeeding business man, professional and clean-cut.  Immediately I see the benefits of being involved in this social networking site. Second Impression:  How legitimate is it for me to add a Nutrition professor from my college back home [...]

When my roommate studied abroad last year it was weird to think we wouldn’t really get to talk for a couple of months except via email, then she told me about Skype. It amazed me that for free we could actually talk through our computers.  Skype is headquartered in Luxembourg and has spread like rapid fire throughout the [...]