Category Archives: LinkedIn and Twitter

Talkingpointsmemo.com: Did Twitter Just Deliver Third-Party Apps a Death Blow?

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Good article on the Twitter crackdown which led LinkedIn to change its policy literally, overnight. Read all the gory details at talkingpointsmemo.com. Speaking of LinkedIn, it’s 9:00 PM Saturday night June 30th and their site isn’t available. There’s a notice … Continue reading →

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LinkedIn Stops Posting Tweets as Activity Updates

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     LinkedIn sent an email message out tonight saying: Twitter recently evolved its strategy and this will result in a change to the way Tweets appear in all third-party applications. As of June 29, 2012, Tweets will no longer be … Continue reading →

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New Jetpack Comments for WordPress Allows Readers to Post Comments from Twitter or Facebook Accounts but not Linkedin

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The Jetpack plug-in for WordPress blogs has added comments to its functionality. According to JetPack: We’re breaking down the barriers between you and your audience. When someone reads an article on your site and wants to comment, they can now … Continue reading →

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Official: LinkedIn’s Statement on Stolen Passwords and Next Steps for Compromised Accounts

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Here’s the link to LinkedIn’s statement about the compromised passwords and what they will do about it. Evidently, LinkedIn thinks they know which passwords have been compromised as they will disable those passwords and send instructions to the users on … Continue reading →

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Has Your LinkedIn Password Been Hacked?

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Update 5:11 CST – Another slew of articles coming out and it looks like the passwords have probably been compromised. Best default is to change your LinkedIn password NOW and the passwords for any other site that use the same … Continue reading →

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New Hashtags for PureSystems’ Tweets

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Update: Steve Will just added #expertintsystems (8:30 AM CST). So far, I count two hashtags for PureSystems Tweets: #PureSystems and #IBMPureSystems. The #IBMPureSystems hashtag was sent to me by an IBM affiliate so that may be the one IBM is … Continue reading →

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You!!! Yes, You Can Be Joe’s 500+th LinkedIn Connection

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4/10/12 – I did IT!!!!! 500+ connections. This one came in this morning courtesy of S. Zelko, Marketing Manager at Arcade Software. After 4+ years on LinkedIn, I am approaching the magic number of 500+ LinkedIn connections. I’m currently at … Continue reading →

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What does it mean when your LinkedIn profile is 100% complete?

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I just added some skills to my LinkedIn profile. Now LinkedIn is telling me my profile is 100% complete.

I’m so proud. For a while there, I thought I’d just be dangling at 85% forever, along with all the other nerdy 85% kids.

Only thing is: I have no idea what this means. Continue reading →

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Follow me on Twitter @JoeHertvik

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I just opened up our twitter account. Planning on using it as a companion piece to the blog. Like the blog, I’ll be focusing on marketing and technical writing news (including white papers, case studies, email campaigns, etc), computer administration … Continue reading →

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