Sharing other people’s content is good for building your network on Linkedin. Here are some strategies for add value to shared content.
EFL 9. “Sharing” your way to better networking: Curating and sharing articles Read More »
Follow this proven 6-step formula to write engaging and informative posts in less than 280 characters.
6 Scientific Steps To Engaging Posts: Emblems and coffee in the age of information Read More »
People want easy to read posts to read on coffee break. This article will give examples of readable posts as well as tips and readability tools to help make your posts as readable as possible to get as many readers as possible.
EFL 8. Writing for Coffee and Readability: Maximizing your international audience Read More »
By analyzing a good example and offering a template, this article will help you write an effective research story, reach a broad audience and increase your research visibility. There are basically six things you can do:
1. Immediately set the character/emotion/setting, 2. Immediately state the relatable problem, 3. Tell the story over a timeline, 4. Create a rising action toward the climax – positive results from research, 5. Set up a cliffhanger ending with caveats and/or implications for future research (story sequel) – possible light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel solution, 6. Use the right language.
What is the best way to build your network and influence on LinkedIn? Write many posts and articles Share many articles Post videos Comment a lot How confident are you about your answer? Many people might assume it is a., writing many posts and articles. However, if you do this (or b. and c. for
EFL 7. Writing comments that (net)work! Read More »
Writing messages for networking: connection requests A: “I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn” B: “Hi Marcus! I just finished reading your excellent article on digital marketing and SAAS. I made several notes and learned some useful ideas that I hope to put into practice at my company. I’d love to connect
EFL 6. Writing LinkedIn Connection requests that (net)work! Read More »
Is the LinkedIn Experience Section a copy of your resume? No. Although this is a section that mirrors your resume with your specific skills, accreditations, education and work experiences, the Experience Section should not have as many details as your resume. It should rather be a summary of your experience that spotlights your main accomplishments.
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Prewriting skills: Essay structure In the previous section, we looked at the option of writing a short About section with bullets to make the key information stand out. However, the About section can be up to 2000 characters and can give you the opportunity to express your unique personality and story. In this sense, you
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How to write the LinkedIn About section is essential to make an impact on whoever reads your LinkedIn profile. This article gives tips, examples and grammar suggestion for ELF non-English speaking professionals to write a brief About paragraph with bullets.
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I thought my slides for important presentations and lectures were good. Clean, to the point, sometimes even beautiful. Not so. After reading Paul and Cecik (2021) [1], I realized I often make 2 mistakes when designing and presenting slides: Mistake 1: I read aloud bullets on a slide Mistake 2: I often look for nice
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