How to use news and trending topics to spark ideas

Welcome to Top Picks, which will help you discover great newsletters that can inspire, delight, or help you get ahead. Click Subscribe above to be notified of each edition. 

Staying informed and up-to-date is an essential building block for professional success. It's a chance for you to share what you're seeing, what's coming next and provide insights based on your experiences.

Part of staying informed is knowing what people are talking about. To help keep you in the know, here are a few authors sharing on trending topics and surfacing interesting ideas that you can use as a starting point for sparking conversation with your network.

Conversation Nation: A round up of insights and info on all things messaging, conversation, & content from the desk of Holler's CEO Travis

This monthly newsletter from LinkedIn Influencer and Founder and CEO of tech company Holler Travis Montaque compiles a variety of articles, interviews, and videos around the future of communications and content. At the heart of each installment is a focus on quality conversations.

"To solve complex problems, agile practices within tech encourage adaptability and promote continuous improvement, flexibility, collaboration and high quality."

Read the latest issue and subscribe here.

The Harris Poll Weekly Insight: Harris Poll presents exclusive research and insights to help you understand the world; trends edited by CEO John Gerzema

This weekly newsletter from New York Times Best Selling Author and CEO of The Harris Poll John Gerzema gathers the latest data, polls, and research for readers. Whether it's the future of travel or tech responses to the pandemic, this newsletter provides ample food for thought.

"What has fundamentally changed? Looking at travel, we see preferences shift from convenience to safety (which bodes well for the auto industry): while 43% say they miss flying on a plane, only 37% say they feel safe flying right now. In fact, today the car is viewed as the only safe mode of transportation; (90%) feel safe traveling by car which is more than 2x the amount who say they feel safe traveling by other means such as Uber (40%), trains (39%) and the subway (29%). And this summer, nearly 65% of leisure travelers say they will travel by car for summer vacations instead of flying. "

Read the latest issue and subscribe here.

Newslit Current: Daily digest on current major stories with an in-depth breakdown of the coronavirus pandemic.

This daily newsletter from news monitoring tool Newslit Co-Founder & COO Angelica Romero provides a roundup of timely headlines and links to relevant articles along with bite-sized previews and summaries to help maximize your time.

"U.S. Coronavirus Cases Surpass 3 Million Mark. One million of those cases have been confirmed over the past month — part of a wave of infection that began after many states started to reopen their economies in May. (Bill Chappell via NPR)"

Read the latest issue and subscribe here.

If you're ready to start sharing your thoughts and ideas on LinkedIn, get inspired by our best practices for sharing content. And for the latest news and insights that professionals need to know now, follow the LinkedIn News page. You can learn more about LinkedIn News here.

Enjoy this newsletter? Hit “Subscribe” to receive future editions highlighting new and interesting newsletters from across LinkedIn. Feel free to comment below, and if there’s an outstanding newsletter you want to share, please include that as well. Thanks for reading!