This week on Beers, Blokes and Business; Controversy - a rift in the blokes. The Blokes are split down the middle this week on LinkedIn

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What will you learn from this 'LinkedIn Love It Or Hate It' podcast?

Why Jim, Steve & Steve think it is a giant spam reservoir Why Sean, Luke & James are big Fanbois Is connecting on LinkedIn permission to send bulk unsolicited commercial email? Who do you choose to connect with?  Do you have connection rules? LinkedIn is great for content, news , slideshare & more A great CV Replacement How important is LI profile coming up first for your name in google search LinkedIN “A Passive Job Board” A secret technique to get people to Google you using LinkedIn - The Sean Poke LinkedIn Groups - Love hate relationship Sean’s weird one word endorsement experiment

Thanks to our show sponsor - Brett Oaten Solicitors

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They can help anyone who uses intellectual property in their business.   He’ll do a great job for you - if he wasn’t good, stars of stage and screen wouldn’t use him, year in, year out.

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Links and resources from this episode

Carter Digital and Sports Geek show how you can use Company LinkedIn Page newsle.com - find out when your connections are in the news Disconnecting from people How to find our Linkedin Map to visualise your Linkedin network Join the BBB Linkedin Group Don't land in Linkedin Jail as discussed on ep 2 LI updates the Who viewed your profile page LI opens up blogging platform to public

On this BBB podcast were:

@seancallanan from Sports Geek @mrjamesnoble from Carter Digital @jimboot from Stew Art Media @sammartino from Startup Blog @lukemccormack from flippa.com @stevevallas from The Honey Bar

As promised here is some Linkedin Visualisations

Sean's network looks like this...

James' network looks like this

Jim's Linkedin network looks like this...

Samma's Linkedin network looks like this

The beer downed by the blokes in this podcast was Knappstein Reserve Lager.

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