Are you getting lots of emails pretending to be from LinkedIn? These are unsubtle attempts to get the unwary to click on any of the links in the email to institute some form of attack on your system or a phishing attempt to try and get logon details.
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Linking Your Personal Profile on LinkedIn to a Company Profile
Earlier in the week I was asked about how to make sure your personal profile is linked to a particular company entry for a role. Issues can arise when there are multiple companies with the same name or the company page was added or amended after you put your personal profile together.
How many of your Twitter Followers are Really Fake Accounts?
How many of your Followers are real accounts? Over the last few months the number of Twitter accounts offering ‘Followers’ for sale has increased and increased.
Personal Information in LinkedIn
In my recent round of LinkedIn seminars for The Social Media Bureau I noticed that a number of the attendees had gone to the trouble of filling out all of their Personal Information on LinkedIn but hadn’t taken the precaution of protecting their identity fully.
Top 10 Marketing Questions to Refresh Your Memory
These Top 10 Marketing Questions are useful for new businesses or to refresh your memory about all the things you need to think about for your marketing plan:
Check Before Sending Messages Selected Using LinkedIn Tags
In our earlier post we described how to use tags to select and then to send messages to your LinkedIn connections. This post is an extra reminder to double check how you send these messages.
Using LinkedIn Tags
The tagging feature on LinkedIn is one that most of us discover far too late. However it’s really useful even if you haven’t yet categorised all of your contacts. To access the tagging feature select Contacts > Connections and on the left-hand side of the page you will see the Tags area.
Another Reason to Change your DNS to OpenDNS
I stopped using my ISP’s Domain Name Server (DNS) a few months ago as it was taking over 5 days to pickup client websites that had ‘moved’. I switched to using OpenDNS on the advice of my colleague, Graham Washbrook, from The Social Media Bureau and this immediately solved my problem with being able to […]
Attending Your First BNI Meeting
All you need to know to prepare before your first visit to BNI meeting as a visitor and what to expect once you are there
So your Twitter Account has been H+cked, Now what?
Increasingly Twitter accounts are a target and these are a few simple steps to take if you fall victim to such an attack
Dropbox – My Favourite Cloud Application
Examples of of how I use Dropbox every day to share videos, pictures and files
Watch out for These Direct Messages in your Twitter Stream
Have you noticed the number of Twitter Direct Messages that you are receiving that contain a strange personal message? Over the last couple of months the number of these messages has increased and just as worrying the actual messages themselves keep changing.