If you haven’t already used this functionality you are probably asksing yourself what is the benefit and why you would want to utilise this within your updates?

Well, it has distinct advantages, in that it is possible through tagging your contacts within your updates, to be able to reach out within their network and actually talk direct with their 2nd or 3rd degree contacts.

It works on the basis that if your update is looking for input from others or is indeed written in such a way as to spark a conversation then when you tag individuals it is likely that you will receive respones from within their network – hence utilising the power of “social” media and reaching out in to their extended network.

Going back to everything that we talk about within our best selling book and webinars / seminars that we run, you have to decide on a strategy / mission statement for LinkedIn.  For example, what if you want to reach out to a particular set of individuals within some of your contacts extended network.  Then if you incororpate this in to your strategy for tagging those individuals within your status updates and focus on subjects or expertise  possessed by your contacts extended network then it is extremely possible to strike up dialogue and hence enable connections to be made in a non organic way.

So, if you haven’t already tried this new functionality within LinkedIn then why not give it a go ?!  Just remember that you have to use a captial letter on your contacts first name or else you will not be able to tag.

And if you have already started to utilise this functionality we would really love to hear from you in terms of how you have used it and whether you have seen benefits by tagging connections?!

If you would like to download from either Amazon or Apple, here are the UK links, although the book is available worldwide.

Amazon Kindle Store UK

Apple iBookstore UK

We hope you enjoy our comprehensive guide to LinkedIn, covering the strategies for obtaining the greatest return on the time you invest in this fantastic global professional networking tool.

The money raised will help support Marie Curie Nurses who provide free nursing care to people with terminal cancer and other terminal illnesses, in the place of their choice.

Marie Curie Nurses provide practical and emotional support for terminally ill people and their families. Every £20 raised provides one hour of Marie Curie Nursing care in a patient’s home. So the money raised of £150 pounds for the swim, should equate to around 8 hours of care being provided to a patient by Marie Curie Nurses.

Thank you to all those that have supported us and in particular, Mark, on the swim for charity and training has already commenced for the next charity challenge. This will be an 8 mile swim for The Stroke Association.

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The money raised will help support Marie Curie Nurses who provide free nursing care to people with terminal cancer and other terminal illnesses, in the place of their choice.

Marie Curie Nurses provide practical and emotional support for terminally ill people and their families. Every £20 raised provides one hour of Marie Curie Nursing care in a patient’s home.

If you have suffered from cancer or know someone who has suffered or is suffering from cancer then you will appreciate the fantastic support provided by this great organisation at such a difficult time in a persons life.

So if you are able to sponsor Mark on his swim, any amount is a great help then please select here and thank you for your support.

To be in with a chance of winning this great prize, worth hundreds of pounds. You need to do the following by Friday 16th March 2012:

- Like us on Facebook – click here to Like
- Follow us on Google+ – click here to follow
- Subscribe to our YouTube channel – click here to subscribe 

A lucky winner will then be drawn at random from those who have taken part in the competition by midnight GMT on Friday 16th March 2012. The winner will then be contacted with details of how they can claim this great prize.

Good luck and we look forward to working with the winner to help them achieve their personal or company goals through this fantastic professional LinkedIn network.

This is a great way for sharing your LinkedIn company profile and integrating the two together, through the incorporation on to your website.  It’s also a great way to share recommendations you have received for goods / services from previous customers that are held against your company profile.

Internal research shows that 70% of LinkedIn’s members follow or would follow a company on LinkedIn and 60% expect industry insights as well as news from the companies that they follow.

To add a follow button to your website, click here and this will take you to the LinkedIn developers network where you can very simply create the style of button you require and then it’s a simple case of copying the code on to your website and that’s it !!

Intelipad has today launched a series of webinars, which will offer the attendees a full overview in terms of LinkedIn, how to make the most of their online presence, discuss personal branding, along with tips and tricks from the No.1 best selling author within the LinkedIn category of the Amazon Kindle Store.

The webinars will commence on Tuesday 6th March 2012, last an hour and run every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 1.30pm GMT on a fortnightly basis.

So, why not take the chance to sign up here, for one of these great cost effective webinars and make the most of your LinkedIn experience.

The first training session covers the subject of how to utilise the reports and demographic information within LinkedIn group reports, to target discussions and also for market research.

Each bite sized training session is around 5 minutes or less and supports our blog posts around the subjects.

A full series of bite sized LinkedIn training videos is planned, so watch out for the announcements, keep checking the website and subscribe to the Intelipad’s YouTube channel.

Happy watching and learning from the Intelipad team.

I know I hear you cry, this is available already within LinkedIn, so why now bring this facility in to LinkedIn groups ?  Well it provides a great way to spark of conversations within the group and also to gain really quick insights in to your members.  For example I run a Golf Networking group for Directors across the North West of England and I might want a view from the members as to which golf course to play next.  Polls allows me to quickly and easily request this information, without the need to message all group members or rely on them commenting on a conversation that I start.

I can also see that as with Polls elsewhere in LinkedIn, you can utilise this tool as a means of gathering useful information for your business, so effectively performing market research.   So for example, we provide LinkedIn training seminars across the UK and I might want to target specific groups and start a poll in terms of where would you next like to see a LinkedIn training seminar ?  And provide a list of cities across the UK.

If you are a group owner then this facility comes with all of the controls available with other areas of functionality, so you can control who can start polls within your group.