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Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by jstanley »

fineng123 wrote: post #29
wslh wrote: post #19

I always think about LinkedIn as a "light scam". LinkedIn always pretended to help businesses and employees but indeed they don't do anything special to match people except for recruiters, which at the end it is enough with a search. To put it straight, it is not a Tinder for business. I tried many paid services like Ads, Premium, and API. They are subpar. I recruit better via Reddit than via LinkedIn, you can post i…

LinkedIn (i.e., data.com) is far and away the best tool for recruiting/accessing GTM professionals. And it's in China. That doesn't sound like that bad of a niche to me.

I spent some time searching but still can't find out what a GTM professional is. What is it?

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by pmlnr »

acd wrote: post #22

Its an issue private companies are owning the social networks which are the real value for most people. Ie you give away private information which are then sold as targeted ads to you. For example SMTP is an internet standard yet almost none of the new tech is standardized chat, social networks.

> none of the new tech is standardized chat

XMPP?

> social networks

This is on it's way (sort of) in form of ActivityStreams, webmentions + h-feed, etc. Making something into a standard unfortunately takes a lot of time but with the GDPR it might even get a push, data portability wise.

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by hedora »

demarq wrote: post #26
hedora wrote: post #16

Moving forward, I guess I’ll have to make sure my web server has all the info my LinkedIn profile contains.

most people are likely to know how to get to linked in, but your webserver... not so much.

Point taken, though my GitHub page is right under LinkedIn for the common spelling of my name on unbubbled google search. Also, you can figure out the right spelling by skimming the top ten of the other spelling’s results (oddly, LinkedIn is the top hit for both spellings).

I mostly just crosslink across reputable, indexable domains and make sure the same keywords show up everywhere that’s possible. :-)

But, yeah, nothing seems to think my web server should be in the top ten of any keyword search.

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by fineng123 »

jstanley wrote: post #31
fineng123 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LinkedIn (i.e., data.com) is far and away the best tool for recruiting/accessing GTM professionals. And it's in China. That doesn't sound like that bad of a niche to me.

I spent some time searching but still can't find out what a GTM professional is. What is it?

Go To Market, so sales and marketing and everything that hangs off that

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by asdfgadsfgasfdg »

demarq wrote: post #26
hedora wrote: post #16

Moving forward, I guess I’ll have to make sure my web server has all the info my LinkedIn profile contains.

most people are likely to know how to get to linked in, but your webserver... not so much.

Really? I think most people still know how to go to a website (they might go there by googling the url but that is another matter).

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by kevinconaway »

The issue at hand is how LinkedIn defines “public”. From the public profile settings page the author linked:

> Select what shows via searches on Bing, Google, etc. as well as on public profile badges and permitted services like Outlook, when the viewers are not logged-in members or did not bind their LinkedIn account to their account on such services.

Its not anyone who isn’t logged in but rather a subset of unauthenticated users who discover your profile through a specific set of avenues

Clicking on the informational icon next to “public” reinforces what they mean:

>All LinkedIn members as well as others who find you through search engines (e.g. Google, Bing) or other servies.

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by tnolet »

lordnacho wrote: post #25

LinkedIn is a weird, weird place. There's always people wanting to add me, but then they mostly don't introduce themselves. Even half of the recruiters who add me don't do an intro. How is that networking? The articles seem pretty low quality. Sorry to say it, but a lot of them seem to be written as a form of homework, as in "you should write something to be seen". There's rarely any insightful comments on news piece…

LinkedIn is going the MySpace way. Total crap “content”, endless amount of people that indeed just want “connect” without intro, reason or anything else than bumping their numbers. Weird thing, I found it pretty useful up to 2 years ago. I guess that’s when the influencers takeover and bullshit blogging began.

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Post by detaro »

kevinconaway wrote: post #36

The issue at hand is how LinkedIn defines “public”. From the public profile settings page the author linked: > Select what shows via searches on Bing, Google, etc. as well as on public profile badges and permitted services like Outlook, when the viewers are not logged-in members or did not bind their LinkedIn account to their account on such services. Its not anyone who isn’t logged in but rather a subset of unauthen…

I just tried googling the authors profile and got a login-wall coming from Google though.

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by paulddraper »

kevinconaway wrote: post #36

The issue at hand is how LinkedIn defines “public”. From the public profile settings page the author linked: > Select what shows via searches on Bing, Google, etc. as well as on public profile badges and permitted services like Outlook, when the viewers are not logged-in members or did not bind their LinkedIn account to their account on such services. Its not anyone who isn’t logged in but rather a subset of unauthen…

WTF?

How is "accessible via the home page of 99%" of the Internet not public?

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by astura »

IgorPartola wrote: post #6

I deleted my LinkedIn profile years ago. The amount of spam I was getting from them was ridiculous (the owner of the pizza joint next door wants to add you, etc.). The final straw was when someone pointed out to me that unless you keep it up to date, it reflects poorly on you. And I had no interest in doing that.

I've never had a LinkedIn account and I still get spam from them. The "so and so wants to connect with you on LinkedIn."
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