Comments on: Diluting LinkedIn with Twitter

By: tojosan

tojosan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:28:10 +0000

Yep. #in works. If it only made folks screen what they send anyway, life would be better. As I mentioned before, there are many out there that don't understand how each network has a different ecosystem and 'best practice' approach to updates and the like.

We could all do better but the ease of increasing noise has just lead to more noise.

By: tojosan

tojosan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:26:42 +0000

It's unfortunate that more folks don't realize each network has it's own best use. Truth is it varies by individual just what best use might be.

In my case cross-posting to LinkedIn status would be very selective, as your seems to be. This makes those updates more useful.

LinkedIn is definitely more passive listening than active. My settings is for daily digest, which allows review and ignore.

Nothing inherently wrong with cross-posting but as with Facebook, folks are still cross-posting many irrelevant items.

By: Robin Houghton

Robin Houghton — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:03:00 +0000

Alternatively you can just go to your Twitter settings on LinkedIn and select “Share only tweets that contain #in” – it's a pretty straightforward option. Then, you choose which tweets to display on your LinkedIn profile. I find this works pretty well.

By: TraceyDooley

TraceyDooley — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:28:22 +0000

To be honest, I don't see the problem of marrying the two AS LONG AS they are being used sensibly, and the tweets you link to LinkedIn are appropriate.

That's why I have recently started to use the #in hashtag with my Twitter posts; this ensures only the very few business-oriented tweets I make each day (sometimes only one, other days a few more, yet other days none) will appear on my LI profile. Also, I only tweet things I think would be useful or interesting to my LI connections.

That said, I'm still learning how best to make my social-media space a more helpful/pleasant environment for my 'audience'.

Actually, I think that's key: Each networking platform has its own unique purpose, so be aware of what that is and tailor that to the preferences of YOUR specific network.

By: tojosan

tojosan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:57:14 +0000

Martin,
Thanks for stopping by and especially for commenting.
Your feedback and ideas are welcome any time.
Todd

By: tojosan

tojosan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:56:42 +0000

Thanks for your comment and the visit.
Love that you've developed the discipline to choose and chosen a Twitter client that lets you fine tune your posting.

By: tojosan

tojosan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:55:59 +0000

Spot on David. What you describe is the very problem area. I'm experiencing the same thing to a limited amount but others are being flooded with those stray tweets.

Thanks for commenting and stopping by.

By: David

David — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:54:06 +0000

Great post. The value of LinkedIn for me has definitely dropped since some of my connections have started pushing their Tweets to LinkedIn. In one individual's case, all the tweets are generally business related, but getting 8-10 tweets per day that are of the variety “Hey, a great shout out goes to… for her great post about branding” doesn't really help me or help me help my clients.

By: Todd Jordan

Todd Jordan — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:49:44 +0000

Thanks David.
LinkedIn may have some years but many are still struggling to make it useful. Why make it more difficult right?
So glad you stopped by.

By: Karen Goodman

Karen Goodman — Sun, 30 May 2010 23:58:38 +0000

I think you nailed it with this article.

Until last week, I never bothered with status updates on LinkedIn. Twitter and Facebook kept me busy enough, and I just don't think that most people would go to LinkedIn when looking for a real estate agent.

However, there was a part of me that worried that I might be ignoring an avenue to reach new clients or to stay in touch with old clients. The change which allows tweets to be pushed to LinkedIn is a good one in my opinion, as long as it is used sparingly. Now that Tweetdeck lets me toggle on the LI account when I write a tweet that would be appropriate for LI, I'm starting to occasionally post here. But since I think the real value I get from Twitter and FB is in interaction, I'm not sure if it will really help me. We'll see.