• How to Create Seamless Carousels on LinkedIn and Be an Ally

    How to Create Seamless Carousels on LinkedIn and Be an Ally

    Carousels offer a fun and creative way to generate engagement and drive organic traffic on social media platforms like LinkedIn, Instagram, etc. A seamless carousel is where elements flow from one slide to the next, instead of each slide standing on its own. The file size needs to be under 100 MB on LinkedIn for…

  • Need to Create Snazzy Graphics for LinkedIn or Social Media?

    Need to Create Snazzy Graphics for LinkedIn or Social Media?

    As an individual or small business owner, it’s great to have resources when planning your content creation on LinkedIn or other social media platforms. Even better is when the resources are free or low-cost, and easy to use. I have used “Over” for making graphics in the past, which is now called GoDaddy Studio. Also,…

  • 99 Online Resources to Help You Upskill or Reskill

    99 Online Resources to Help You Upskill or Reskill

    Aside from college and university offerings, there are numerous places where you can learn online from anywhere at any time, 24/7/365. Check our resources. The list below of 99 resources is only a tiny portion of e-learning opportunities, but there might be some new ones on the list that you may have never heard about…

  • Stellar Boolean Search Tips for Job Seekers and Business Owners

    Stellar Boolean Search Tips for Job Seekers and Business Owners

    Do you need to do a targeted search for someone or something on LinkedIn or the Internet? Have you ever tried a Boolean search or even know what that is or how to do it? George Boole lived in the 19th century, and he was a mathematician, philosopher, and logician who developed a form of…

  • 24 Tips for Successful Job Search Strategies for Grads to Boomers

    24 Tips for Successful Job Search Strategies for Grads to Boomers

    Job seekers need to have strategies, tactics, and career management resources to organize their job search, whether beginning their first career as a recent grad, unemployed, or changing jobs. Everyone’s job search is different, so no one size fits all. APPLICANT TRACKING SYSTEM (ATS) – Although bots do not hire humans (but humans hire humans),…

  • Using LinkedIn to Reach Nonprofit Volunteers

    Using LinkedIn to Reach Nonprofit Volunteers

    April is National Volunteer Month. Need to know how to use LinkedIn to reach potential nonprofit volunteers? Use your personal profile, company page, and other resources. There are tips here to find volunteers and other LinkedIn strategies for nonprofit careerists. HASHTAGS Make sure you have a branded hashtag for your nonprofit that you can use…

  • Semiotics on LinkedIn

    Semiotics on LinkedIn

    The notable Russian psychologist, Lev Vygotsky (1978), stated that the “very essence of memory is that human beings actively remember with the help of signs” (p. 51). Through signs, people can construct and understand the meaning. Signs are almost everywhere; in magazines, movies, books, commercials, television shows, many businesses, religions, and cultures. According to dictionary.com,…

  • Aligning The Great Resignation with Company Culture, Autism, & Neurodiversity

    Aligning The Great Resignation with Company Culture, Autism, & Neurodiversity

    “The new normal every company must accept to be successful is to create an emotionally safe working environment marked by respect, acceptance, and celebration of differences among employees. In other words, companies innovate better with diversity and inclusivity. Kenny Rogers, in his hit song, ‘Know When To Fold ‘Em’ tells us that the hand we’re…

  • 7 Tips to Enhance Your LinkedIn & Social Media with Other Technologies

    7 Tips to Enhance Your LinkedIn & Social Media with Other Technologies

    “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (Unknown). It’s like drinking from a fire hydrant with so much tech available. We can learn something new every day, but we all have limited bandwidth with our work life and home life. In addition, we all learn in different ways. Howard Gardner…

  • I Need A Job! Is My LinkedIn Good Enough?

    I Need A Job! Is My LinkedIn Good Enough?

    Is your LinkedIn profile good enough to get a job? That depends. Did you only fill out database fields or engage in professional development to learn? You don’t know what you don’t know. So, how would you know tips, tricks, and strategies to use if you did not attend a workshop, seminar, social audio room,…

  • New LinkedIn Feature for Career Breaks

    New LinkedIn Feature for Career Breaks

    LinkedIn has a new feature to record a break in your career. Gaps can be pre-planned, or they may come as a surprise. Prepare an explanation for an interview, as you may be asked, “Why did you leave your last position?” or “Please explain why you were not working between x and y.” As of…

  • The Great Reshuffle To or From the World of Education

    The Great Reshuffle To or From the World of Education

    Teacher to trainer? Classroom to corporate? Teacher to teacherpreneur? Or maybe it’s the reverse? How do you pivot and use LinkedIn for your reinvention? Not only have I already reinvented myself six times, but I am still evolving with the business acumen I have gained. I’ve been in several corporate industries, earning two administrative and…

  • The Conundrum of Peak Productivity & Technology Skills

    The Conundrum of Peak Productivity & Technology Skills

    We live in a pandemic where technology skills are essential to work in a remote world, yet many digital immigrants (Gen X and boomers) lack skills. Digital immigrants are individuals born between 1946 and 1980 and did not grow up with technology. In contrast, those born after 1980 are considered digital natives and grew up…

  • Tips on Building a Successful Career Portfolio

    Tips on Building a Successful Career Portfolio

    Do you have a career portfolio or professional portfolio as a client seeker, job seeker, or employed career climber? You should have one, but you must keep it updated and consider it a work in progress. If your career portfolio is digital, you can add it to your LinkedIn profile as a media attachment as…

  • Perfect Your Elevator Pitch

    Perfect Your Elevator Pitch

    If you are a working adult whether unemployed, self-employed, or employed, and you engage in meeting people, you need to have an elevator pitch. One size does not fit all. It depends on the audience and the circumstances. Over the years, I have collected some resources from various people from their handouts, presentations, or articles…

  • 34 Places to Network as an Entrepreneur or Small Business Owner

    34 Places to Network as an Entrepreneur or Small Business Owner

    What do you do when you don’t have time to network? You make time! It’s important! Make networking a habit because if you don’t ask, you don’t get. If you have spent time building the know, like, and trust with your network, you can ask them for help when you need it. Networking is a…

  • What If MLK Had Social Audio for “I Have a Dream”?

    What If MLK Had Social Audio for “I Have a Dream”?

    If MLK had the social audio technology in 1963 that we have today, he would have reached so many more people than those who heard him from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Listeners would be tapping on their clapping hands’ emoji from their smartphone’s social audio apps and would have heard the power and…

  • LinkedIn Poll Tips and Results on The Best Way to Find a Job

    LinkedIn Poll Tips and Results on The Best Way to Find a Job

    Poll results are in on how people found their last W-2 job. Results are not surprising. The winner is networking, of course! But wait, there’s more! Even with 12,943 views of this poll on LinkedIn, there were only 241 people that voted to result in the following: 11% online social network 11% company website 24%…