LinkedIn will soon celebrate its 14th birthday. It now has roughly half a billion users, a quarter of whom are in the United States. Every second, two more professionals join LinkedIn. So what’s up with all these people suddenly endorsing your skills? I’m not talking about the “Recommendations.” LinkedIn has had that feature since the … Continued

Have you ever noticed that eight of the ten Commandments (80%) are things not to do? Thou shalt not… Just two of the Commandments are affirma­tives. In keeping with roughly that same ratio, to go with the ten don’ts of my earlier post, I offer three affirm­ative rules for using social media in business: Social … Continued