LinkedIn Lead Generation Secrets by LinkedIn Speaker Philip Calvert

The new LinkedIn 'Kudos' feature is now being rolled out on mobile devices. In short, it's a quick and easy way to give... yes, kudos, appreciation or thanks to one or more of your LinkedIn connections. It's a bit like the skills endorsements feature, though this one is visual and very public. Here you can see that I publicly gave kudos to my connection Jeremy Squibb You can choose from a selection of ready-made messages and images and it goes on LinkedIn as a status/pos t complete with stats. As usual, don't forget to include relevant hashtags, this time related to the person you are endorsing. Rolling out on iOS initially, and now on Android. Desktop soon. Of course, saying 'thank you' publicly is a great thing to do on LinkedIn anyway, which we could all have done without the feature! But now that they've given us a button to press, we'll be far more likely to do it more often. Looks like there is a maximum number of times you can use

Interesting insight into how LinkedIn is increasingly seeing itself as a News service. This isn't surprising in many ways, because it has a strategy of trying to make itself indispensable to users of the site. Whatever your position in the world of work - whether you are employed or run your own business, they are trying to make sure that everything you'll ever need is available on one site and at the click of a mouse. That's one of the reasons they don't like you posting links in your status updates, because in essence you are encouraging people to leave LinkedIn and go elsewhere. Take a look  http://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/06/28/why-linkedin-wants-make-original-journalism

Another new LinkedIn development coming to a mobile device near you... LinkedIn now gives you your own QR code which you can save and share. You can also scan other people's QR code - handy if you've run out of business cards etc.