Issue 132: Hashtags For #PersonalBranding - 15 Years of Bing - Best #FollowFriday Yet!

There were some rumors that LinkedIn was going to drop the ability to see how many followers a particular hashtag had (like #FollowFriday) but other than an experiment (a few weeks where you didn’t see the details/number of followers) the feature seems to have returned!

In newsletters, we don’t seem to have the limitations we do with posts and tagging, so in the case of Jeremy L. Neal, MBA, MS, LSSBB, SA, POPM, PSM I, CMNO, SFC? weekly #SocialSaturday post, in an article I think he could continue tagging individuals in one long newsletter (but he uses a poll to gather the inclusion for the following week) and you can’t do both in one post.

Christian Buckley recently shared his 21st anniversary on LinkedIn (that means he was a true EARLY adopter! Christian is member #6,221 https://buff.ly/3Ktr4EA! My early adopter account was Nov 17, 2006 and this account was August 28, 2007!

Here’s the list according to Sprout Social, Inc. from Chicago. These are followers of the hashtags as of 2023 (and you should be able to click on the hashtag url to see the change this year!)

1. #innovation – 38,411,129 followers https://www.dhirubhai.net/feed/hashtag/?keywords=innovation
2. #management – 35,598,286 followers
3. #humanresources – 32,898,825 followers
4. #digitalmarketing – 27,095,863 followers
5. #technology – 26,161,748 followers
6. #creativity – 24,925,069 followers
7. #future – 24,304,980 followers
8. #futurism – 23,219,190 followers
9. #entrepreneurship – 22,469,540 followers
10. #careers – 22,286,006 followers
11. #markets – 22,001,983 followers
12. #startups – 21,011,950 followers
13. #marketing – 20,178,414 followers
14. #socialmedia – 19,491,703 followers
15. #venturecapital – 19,100,660 followers
16. #socialnetworking – 18,826,357 followers
17. #leanstartups – 18,782,560 followers
18. #branding – 17,838,214 followers
19. #advertisingandmarketing – 17,002,362 followers
20. #motivation – 15,629,846 followers
21. #personaldevelopment – 14,529,875 followers
22. #investing – 14,249,587 followers
23. #jobinterviews – 14,171,761 followers
24. #sustainability – 13,162,614 followers
25. #personalbranding – 10,350,194 followers
26. #education – 9,545,127 followers
27. #customerrelations – 8,514,104 followers
28. #productivity – 8,363,545 followers
29. #sales – 5,826,765 followers
30. #socialentrepreneurship – 5,746,331 followers

https://www.dhirubhai.net/feed/hashtag/?keywords=sales

It’s Follow Friday and so we may need to follow some additional profiles, but I was already reminded by John Chambers that it’s national donut day - so time to put Microsoft Designer to the test!