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Twitter and LinkedIn get Social

Nov 22

Written by: Greg Elwell
11/22/2009 3:59 PM 

Perhaps you’ve noticed many of the mainstream social networks and tools have gotten more, well, connected and social. For example, I use both Seesmic and TweetDeck (from different computers) to manage my Twitter accounts. Not only can you manage multiple accounts, place people in groups, et cetera, but you can also post your updates to multiple networks with one click of a button! This is a great way to publish information to your Twitter followers and have it simultaneously spread to other places where friends, business associates, customers and prospects hang out - like on Facebook - and now LinkedIn. I especially like the TweetDeck console because it not only lets you post to Twitter, but to your Facebook personal profile AND your Facebook Fan/Business page.
LinkedInFor many, LinkedIn has been a professional network that is rather static and closed loop. Not anymore. Not long ago LinkedIn provided its members the ability to integrate their SlideShare account and show up to 3 presentations (documents like PowerPoint’s, PDF whitepapers, eBooks, etc.) on their LinkedIn profile. This makes your LinkedIn more engaging and allows you to share your content and expertise across multiple networks to more and more eyeballs. It allows you to demonstrate your specialty in a very tangible way. And now, your LinkedIn has becomes a more valuable, robust application from which you’ll want to keep up with.
TwitterLinking up with Twitter was, in my view, a brilliant strategy for LinkedIn to continue in this vein of becoming connected and integrated with popular content and communication sharing sites. Twitter has become an ever important tool for business. Whether your objective is to increase brand awareness, establish yourself as a thought leader, improve customer service, or to just monitor conversations within your industry, Twitter, along with a blog, Facebook Fan Page and LinkedIn profile have arguably become essential components of a modern marketing strategy. And now, you can easily connect them all together to efficiently cross-promote and update your status.
Adding your Twitter account(s) to LinkedIn is easy. Here’s how. Login to your LinkedIn profile and click on the following links: Account & Settings > Settings > Profile Setting > Twitter Settings. From there you’ll be able to add one or more Twitter accounts. You will also be able to select whether you want to display your Twitter profile(s) on your LinkedIn profile. Choose, “Yes, visible to anyone.” The other setting is on whether or not to share your tweets (from Twitter) in your LinkedIn status. The choices here are: “Yes, share all tweets” or, “Share only tweets that contain #in. The “#in” is a hashtag that when included in a tweet will send the post to LinkedIn where it will be displayed in your “activity” stream along the right side of your profile page. Some people choose the “#in” method because some of their tweets may not be targeted for their LinkedIn audience, and they only want to share business-related information on LinkedIn. I’m experimenting with this right now. I’ve chosen to share all tweets from my business related Twitter account (@zephyrmarketing) on LinkedIn. On my personal Twitter account (@gregelwell) I’ve chosen to include the “#in” hashtag on tweets I want to share on LinkedIn.

Regardless of which option you choose, I highly recommend linking up your Twitter account with LinkedIn. The more places you can spread your ideas and links to the content you’re creating, the greater your opportunity to market your business and attract more eyeballs and interest in what you do. It will make you more visible, credible and remarkable!

Greg Elwell's contact information and profile. He also blogs on social media marketing at ZephyrMarketing.net.

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Re: Twitter and LinkedIn get Social

Hey Greg, this is great information. I'm a heavy user of both, but was unaware that LinkedIn could be connected to Twitter like that. I use ping.fm to post tweets to all my accounts at once. Also, I've got my WordPress blog ( www.bayareasearchengineacademy.org/blog ) connected to LinkedIn so any new posts automatically show up on my LinkedIn profile.Thanks for the tips. I'll go implement them now.Tom

By Thomas Petty on   11/23/2009 10:17 AM

Re: Twitter and LinkedIn get Social

Thanks for sharing your comments Tom. I especially like the idea of connecting your blog also to your LinkedIn to auto post to your LI profile. I've used Ping.fm too and wish it would give you stats on link clicks. Greg

By Greg Elwell on   11/23/2009 9:41 AM

Re: Twitter and LinkedIn get Social

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Re: Twitter and LinkedIn get Social

Very interesting idea! I think that could prove a very worthwhile approach in establishing long term relationships. I think that you would need to prioritise quite heavily towards the people who either link to you all the time or who have large, powerful sites. But these are the perfect people to build a relationship with as they have already shown that they like you by placing the link.

By Guaranteed Seo Services on   10/22/2010 1:58 AM

Re: Twitter and LinkedIn get Social

Very interesting idea! I think that could prove a very worthwhile approach in establishing long term relationships. I think that you would need to prioritise quite heavily towards the people who either link to you all the time or who have large, powerful sites. But these are the perfect people to build a relationship with as they have already shown that they like you by placing the link.

By Guaranteed Seo Services on   10/22/2010 1:59 AM

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