Extreme Ezine

8 Tips to Enhance Your LinkedIn Profile

Published on 2010-08-01 14:18:37

LinkedIn profiles  are our one and only place to build connections and a network around our experience. Sure, other social media platforms give us an opportunity for us to talk about our experience but our LinkedIn profile  allow us to showcase our capabilities without having to repeat numerous times. Creating a killer headline and an exceptional [...]

How to Write a Killer LinkedIn Summary

Published on 2010-07-08 13:06:31

LinkedIn, the professionals networking site, continues to connect professionals who are seeking to build a strong network. LinkedIn has come a long way from being just a job seekers platform and is now where connections are made and businesses are built. Your profile is no longer a copy-paste of your resume. Your LinkedIn profile is your online voice [...]

How to Write Compelling LinkedIn Headlines

Published on 2010-07-01 06:19:49

LinkedIn is a professional network where professionals connect with others who are valuable to their network. Whether this be an old friend, a previous co-worker, an employee at a company you are hoping someday to be employed by or a people that will help grow your business. The reasons may be different but the intent [...]

Reaquainting Yourself with LinkedIn

Published on 2010-06-23 03:25:57

LinkedIn, launched in 2003 as a professional network with under 500 users, is now connecting over  70 million people in 200 countries and territories.  Initially associated with the popular MySpace, but for adults, users quickly learned that this platform was a whole lot more. It was opportunity. Opportunity to showcase your knowledge and experience to connect with other [...]

Have You Noticed?

Published on 2010-05-31 20:10:33

Have you noticed that everyone has an opinion? Not just an opinion, but an opinion on how “you” should do something. I won’t go into everything, but relating to Social Media, I won’t ever tell people what they “should” or “shouldn’t” do. I do offer my advice, you can take it or leave it. What are [...]

Building Relationships

Published on 2010-05-29 10:09:31

During our #xtremesocial Twitter Chat on Thursday night, I asked a question about what you expect out of your social media efforts. It’s a simple question, but I think the response is more complicated. Most of you said you are “building relationships”. Personally, I think that is a bunch of bull! Let me be clear, I [...]

3rd Party Apps Blindsided by Twitter

Published on 2010-05-25 06:08:41

This week Twitter announced that 3rd party advertising apps would no longer have access to the API to send paid tweets out. I have read several articles an these changes, and have yet to find Twitter’s official statement on it. I did, however, find an article on Sponsored Tweets blog talking about the changes and how [...]

ExtremeEzine on Facebook

Published on 2010-05-23 22:44:06

Tee and I have been working hard behind the scenes to get everything done for the new ExtremeEzine website, and have created some new social services for you to stay up to date with us. The latest edition is a Facebook Page and Networked Blog on Facebook. You can check out the Facebook Page here: And the [...]

Use Blackbird Pie to Embed Tweets

Published on 2010-05-23 09:53:11

Blackbirdpie is a plugin that allows you to use shortcode to insert individual tweets into an article or page on your blog. Instead of just pasting the conversation into a “quoted” area, why not add some styling to it using Blackbird Pie? This tool/plugin brings the styling of the persons tweet along with it, so it [...]

The Extreme Newsletter

Published on 2010-05-22 09:17:26

As most of you know, Brian decided to destroy the newsletter list he had set up with Aweber. I think that was best for all concerned since we took over and have changed the overall topic here, the newsletter has changed. So, this post is to let you know that if you wish to continue getting [...]