Friday, June 24, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Using LinkedIn with your WordPress Blog
Many people across the web is entering all sorts of different social networking sites. Everyone probably has their own reasons due to the multiplication of the features offered by each network.
But a considerable number of people joining these networks because they enjoy the features of blogging that they come with since they can freely blog and them that their entries win attention immediately as new entries are usually announced in the pages of others that are connected.
While LinkedIn has similar characteristics to the standard social networking site, LinkedIn is strictly for professionals, and although some professionals have their own business blog, LinkedIn is not one any support professional to have their own blog on the server of LinkedIn. LinkedIn may include that as it violates some their goal of becoming a professional resource. However, it does gives you no reason to be hopeless just because you like to update your blog to undertaking.
This is why LinkedIn now offers a way to integrate LinkedIn profiles in the form of a WordPress blogs widget. This allows LinkedIn users who have their own WordPress blogs to display their latest entries on their LinkedIn profile and it blends in pretty well.
The best thing about it is that there is no cost involved in the process of full integration and implementation takes approximately 5 minutes with 2 different ways to hook up your blog. The simplest method is to use the LinkedIn for WordPress application.
And don't forget that WordPress blogs are used for marketing and sales among other approaches to making useful money. Integrate your business blog WordPress for LinkedIn profile gives essentially your blog more visibility with LinkedIn members more wanting to verify the possibilities listed on the blog of think of it as free advertising for your blog in a social networking site. This method is also good in more search engine exposure since LinkedIn has an elevated status page first.
Although LinkedIn is improving their support with other blogs and services online, new business bloggers need to create a WordPress account to take advantage of this integration. Have your blog noticed company not only give you jobs or sales you need, but you will also get much more respect and trust of the community of LinkedIn, provided that you provide blogs for a good cause.
The WordPress widget is very flexible can be moved to the profile for this position perfect using the drag-and - drop. It can also be displayed in the LinkedIn home page to follow the latest updates. One of the interesting features of the WordPress widget is the fact that it is open source for improvements are anticipated. It works on WordPress blogs and other sites that use the WordPress engine. Now travellers are not necessary to worry about the need of switching to a WordPress hosting or vice versa just to get the widget to work.
Blog updates will be reflected on your connected as members make this WordPress widget a valuable addition to any LinkedIn user profile. Don't forget to keep up to date you are guaranteed to have more readers, as long you keep your connections close.
Chris Muccio, and Peggy Murrah, LinkedIn profile Experts, are the authors of the best-selling, 42 of the rules for success 24 hours a day on Linkedin. Take the mystery of Linkedin with their free e-mail course to http://www.42for24.com
Monday, June 6, 2011
LinkedIn has Widgets too!
You want to improve your LinkedIn experience on your blog or your Web site? Now you can.
Scroll to the bottom of any page of LinkedIn and click the Widgets link. You will be taken to a page where you can add the latest productivity enhancements for your site.
Currently, there are two available widgets:
Company Insider: This feature allows your site visitors see how they are related to companies that you have registered on your site or blog.Share on LinkedIn: this widget tool allows visitors to share your content with their LinkedIn connections or network.
The Company Insider widget will allow users to see how they are related to the companies you list on your blog or your Web site. To show how many people they know in total and will also supply some of the names with the possibility of clicking on a link to see the complete list. This widget offers the best of professional networking and you can easily install it in a few seconds.
It is available in three different presentation formats, including a popup, inline with a border or inline without a border. You can even place the widget as many times as you want on a page.
Share on LinkedIn is the widget of offered by LinkedIn. This widget allows users to share the content of your website or your blog with their LinkedIn network. This can be a wonderful way to have your valuable information quickly and easily transmitted to hundreds and even thousands of people in the professional network of a person.
This widget requires a bit more coding expertise to install it, but if you follow the instructions, it should be fairly simple.
As the company Insider Widget, it is a wonderful tool to combine professional networking with sharing of information - a true Web 2.0 application. The share on LinkedIn widget allows visitors to share your content with their LinkedIn connections or network. If someone visits your Web site or a blog where it is installed, then they can literally share your content with hundreds or thousands of people they have in their own network. The benefits of others using this easy to install widget could be significant.
Pour trouver find any of these widgets, scroll to the bottom of any page of LinkedIn and click Widgets, and then click Sharing on LinkedIn. Enhance your experience of LinkedIn!
Chris Muccio, and Peggy Murrah, LinkedIn profile Experts, are the authors of the best-selling, 42 of the rules for success 24 hours a day on Linkedin. Take the mystery of Linkedin with their free e-mail course to http://www.42for24.com