This time of year many people are searching for the perfect gifts for their loved ones. A $25 Kiva Card is an easy way to show the people in your life you care. Kiva Cards are an easy way to “give a Kiva loan” to a friend or family member. They are able to choose… [Read more…]
December 11, 2011
In the first year Business Professionals In Malta has grown to over 1300 members, about 10% of the Malta LinkedIn membership. This growth tends to indicate that the group is of interest to people and is of value to the members. With this in mind I have considered what has worked to grow the membership,… [Read more…]
December 10, 2011
Regularly I have pleasure in visiting Bocconcino in Balluta Bay, Malta for breakfast on a Saturday morning. Bocconcino is a lively cafe with entertaining banter, certainly a reason for going again and again. Today was special though as Tony gave me a quick reminder about how to keep everything in perspective. I was telling Tony… [Read more…]
December 4, 2011
The LinkedIn statistics infographic is a great tool to use when growing your group on LinkedIn. The statistics page is easily found with the groups main menu items under More>Group Statistics. To me this simple, clear and concise data is a great tool for growing your LinkedIn group and can be used in the following… [Read more…]
November 23, 2011
About 12 months ago I took a look at how connected I was on LinkedIn within Malta where I live, and decided that I needed to focus on expanding my network. At that time I was connected to 19 people in Malta and hundreds in places like London and New York; it made no real… [Read more…]
November 20, 2011
We already know that social media is changing the world, we see it in business as well as in social and political change. Having seen this video though of police using pepper spray against students in the US who were acting in a non violent protest it occurred to me that the awesome power of… [Read more…]
May 4, 2011
One of the clever features of Kiva is the community that is built around teams. Anyone can set up a team for any reason, and so in Malta we have Team Kiva-Malta. Originally set up just for fun the team now has 25 members which is growing monthly, and from the team page anyone can access a… [Read more…]
May 2, 2011
Fortunately I receive many great messages on LinkedIn™, but on some occasions there are those that are just very disappointing. This one I have shown below, with some changes to make it anonymous, is a great example of how to put me off any interest in doing business with you. The subject line was “Interested… [Read more…]
May 1, 2011
If you have ever tried to share links and shorten them using Mobile Safari on an Iphone, you may have struggled to find a solution. As an avid user of bit.ly the link shortening service it would have been preferable to find a solution that worked and was easy, but I failed with this one,… [Read more…]
April 30, 2011
If you get bored of using the same emoticons in your Tweets and Facebook updates then here are some to spice up your posts. I have been using the same smiley faces for a while and when I began to get bored of it it seemed wise to find some alternatives. I asked for some… [Read more…]
December 16, 2011
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