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Last night, I spent an hour or more going through my feed, one-post-by-one, and hit the "Not interested in this post" choice from the three little dots in the upper right-hand corner of each post. That brings up a bunch of radio buttons to tell LinkedIn why. Mostly, due to experience, I chose "I am not interested in this author", occasionally, "I am not interested in this topic". I did this for posts with purely political content, "inspiration porn", silly, non-actionable, trite generalities, quotations from historical people, unsolicited advice, and other non-business topics. I did this with more than a few people I'm connected with, who insist on repeated junk posting. LinkedIn is for _business_. Non-business content, annoying content, time-wasting content, can be purged over time. It takes persistence, and a commitment to cleaning up my feed. It does work: my feed is now less than 50% junk, and improving. The utility of the feed has improved a great deal. Do you want to improve your own feed, your way, as you see fit? Here's how to do it: https://lnkd.in/dVHb5adW

Tired of LinkedIn garbage posts? Meaningless "inspiration porn" that cannot be used for any known business purposes? Recycled, endlessly repeated, boring, unsolicited advice that assaults and insults your intelligence, over and over, until you have to scroll through mountains of written manure just to find _one_ post that has any business value? Political opinions no one cares about and should never have been allowed on a business platform? You are not alone. It drives us crazy, too. Two months ago, we did something about it. Not enough, for a certainty, but, after two months of diligent pruning, we've improved our LinkedIn feed enough so that it is now only about 50 % crap posts. We're still working on it, but the method has so far shown solid results, and has produced a feed that is much better than when we started. Read this: https://lnkd.in/dVHb5adW. If you agree, do two things: (1) follow the advice, literally and brutally. YOLO. (2) Spread the word. We'll produce a more in-depth article on the same topic, but with a lot more detail and additional active measures, on our Substack. More to come, hopefully, this spring. N.B.: pruning your feed ruthlessly relieves you of aggravation rather quickly. Continuing to do it will, over time, disincentivize crap posting on LinkedIn entirely. Wouldn't that be a great result?

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Special edition of The Overlogix Sunday Times: ·?New Substack TOST landing page ·?Division of TOST into USA and Switzerland regional biweekly editions, alternating between the two ·?Fast news wrap-up ·?Technology, AI and automation news sources

Quickie reality check for the immediate future. We've been publishing The Overlogix Sunday Times (TOST) now for thirteen issues with good results; the length of the last edition made us want to break it up into US and CH editions, which we plan to do with the next edition. Interestingly, as we scan our LinkedIn feed, we note that AFRICA appears to have a ton of enthusiastic and very able folks in high tech and, in particular, a strong interest in artificial intelligence. So we ask: how much interest is there in a regional African edition of TOST? We must claim ignorance of Africa: never been there, only have Internet level understanding of the continent and its people (read: we know _nothing_), and so we are going to need African help to do it. Any interest? Any folks who know the African market, cold, and can show it? Clearly, there will be many rivers to cross. This is the first. https://lnkd.in/dNFZD52J

The Overlogix Sunday Times has completed the move to Substack. Subscribers to our LinkedIn newsletter are invited to subscribe to the newsletter on Substack. We'll continue to post summaries to LinkedIn for the time being.

The Overlogix Sunday Times has now moved to Substack. We publish here links to the new edition, including the table of contents. #Overlogix #TechnologyNews #AI #Automation #JobMarketNews

The summary article linked here presents an overview of sixteen months of hard experience marketing a small B2B business on LinkedIn, without paying the platform a dime. While the business results thus far have been disappointing, as expected, the lessons learned, and distilled in this article, are priceless. We now have an excellent, defensible and repeatable picture of what can and cannot be accomplished via the free version of LinkedIn. The value of these lessons translates directly into less wasted time, more targeted and concrete business communications, and a high level of confidence in our own, home-grown and now thoroughly tested marketing strategy. Readers using LinkedIn for marketing their own businesses are encouraged, in the strongest possible terms, to take a close look at what we have found, critically analyze it with their own independent judgement, and internalize the lessons we have extracted. Using what we did as an example can allow other marketers to rapidly formulate their own strategies and validate them, propelling their own businesses faster than possible without such concrete examples. More to come! Stay tuned! #LinkedInMarketing #SmallBusinessTips #B2BMarketing #SocialMediaStrategy #DigitalMarketing?

If, like us, you are less than pleased with your LinkedIn Feed, help is on the way. The first thing you have to decide, and this is a big one, is: exactly what does LinkedIn mean to you? Are you: 1. An occasional, largely passive user, who put up a profile once, almost never updates it, and perhaps uses LinkedIn as social media and some news about what's happening out there in the business world? 2. A job-hunter, either passive (you already have a job and are open to possibly better offers) or active (you need a job ASAP)? 3. A business owner needing to have an inexpensive online home for your business, but who does marketing in more traditional ways? 4. A more serious, LinkedIn-centric marketer, looking for that 100 - 1000 ideal customers out of the perhaps 1,200,000,000 LinkedIn users? 5. A talent sourcing HR specialist, scouring LinkedIn for candidates for your company's open positions? There are other, more niche, use cases for LinkedIn, but we'll bet that the overwhelming number of users falls under one of those categories. Each of these buckets has different characteristics, and improving the LinkedIn feed strongly depends on what needs to be done with the platform. Now, once you know where you are on this list (make up your own if in a more niche category, using this post as an example), you can answer the next question: which posts do you NOT need to see, that dilute your feed, wastes your time, and doesn't get you what you need. Be brutal: every post you do not need, click on the three little dots in the top right corner of the post to pull down a menu, hit "Not Interested in this Post", and then a menu will pop up with radio buttons to say why. "Not interested in this topic" will partially remove posts on the subject matter, "Not interested in this Author" will partially remove posts by the poster. There are more choices, but that's the gist. Keep doing this for your available time budget every day you use LinkedIn, and, after a while, you'll find your feed improve. You have to be persistent, though, new users come in all the time. Keeping this up will help make the content more relevant to you. More on this topic here: https://lnkd.in/dVHb5adW . We'll have more to say on this topic later, but this will get you started. Happy feed pruning!