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Question from Kenny L.: I read your post about using the “Facebook Debugger” to force Facebook to show the new version of an updated blog post when you re-share the URL.
Thank you so much for that. It was a big help to me!
My question is does LinkedIn have a similar tool?
Every time I update a post on my blog and then re-share the URL on LinkedIn it insists on showing the title and image I had used for the old version. That’s incredibly frustrating!
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Question from Jaimey: I opened a LinkedIn account a couple of years ago when I was thinking about switching jobs.
I never really used that account and I haven’t logged into it in forever.
I receive several emails a day from LinkedIn with updates and other stuff and it wastes my time having to delete them.
Since I never use this account I’d like to delete it. Can you tell me how?
If you use LinkedIn you’re probably used to seeing lots of available job notifications showing up in your feed.
While some folks are actively looking for a new job and others are always willing to consider job offers that might align with their career goals, plenty of other LinkedIn users have no interest in seeing job openings in their feed at all.
Personally, I fall into the “I’d rather not see the job openings in my feed” camp. If you feel that way too you can easily block those job opening notifications with a simple settings change. [Read more…]
Two-Factor Authentication has quickly become the preferred method of securing online accounts from hackers because it adds a second, even more secure physical requirement to logging into an account.
Of course that extra requirement is having physical access to your mobile phone, which makes it just about as secure as it can get.
Although there will likely never be an absolutely 100% effective way of protecting online accounts from hackers, two-factor authentication is probably the most secure method available today. That’s why I recommend enabling it on your LinkedIn account right now. Here’s how: [Read more…]
There are times when it would be nice to have the ability to schedule a post to go live on your Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn timeline at a later date and time.
Facebook already allows users to schedule posts for future publication on “business pages”, but they don’t allow you to do it with your personal account. And neither do Twitter and LinkedIn.
However, a fantastic service called TwitTimer allows you to schedule your posts for later publication on all three of those social media platforms. [Read more…]