How to spice up your LinkedIn profile with cool characters

Hi people,

There’s nothing wrong with being different like, why would we all want to be like everybody else? One in a dozen? Showing a bit of personality is character and there’s nothing wrong with wanting to be different from the rest. So instead of being a white or a black sheep be a blue one. As blue is just one of my favorite colors ☺

It all comes down to be different to the wright occasion, you like to be noticed or get somebodies attention. In some LinkedIn profiles you see people have stars ★ or cute little hearth ♥ around their name. Everyone is free to do that of course but in my opinion I would keep that for Facebook and keep LinkedIn as your business invite.

☃ ♚ ☠ ☭ ♘ I guess you guys get the picture.

So what can you do?
I decided to use special characters in between keywords and for bullet points, just because it reads easier and of course we like to show the people who showed interest in you how cool we can be. And hopefully they remember us as the guy or girl with that proper LinkedIn profile.

So how do we do it?
Of course you can use the characters from your keyboard but then you’ll only upgrade your status from a white sheep to a grey one. We want to be cool but annoying. The other way is copy and paste the characters from LinkedIn profiles you come across or select your own by using the Windows Character Map under accessories.

Just choose a nice font (MS PMincho is nice) look true the characters which one will suite your purpose. A phone ☏  in front of your number or an envelope with e-mail just remember don’t overdo it. Not all the character work so test it before you publish again.

 

 

 

Hide LinkedIn notifications

Since I’m quite active on LinkedIn keeping my business network active and expand it with useful contacts and all I keep track of my business buddies and their notifications as well.

LinkedIn has a nice feature that you can connect your Twitter account or by the a browser bar post directly on LinkedIn and share cool and interesting things with your network. Only with everything it’s cool until you over do it. I love ice-cream but 20 on a day is too much. Now one of my contacts is flooding LinkedIn with practically anything he loves to share with the world. Maybe it works for him but not for me. If you got one of the guys as your contact here’s how to hide just his LinkedIn notifications and clean up your homepage a bit.

I’s all very simple, just hover over one of the posts and in the right top corner the word hide appears in light gray. Just click it and voila all the messages are gone. Hope this tip can help you to good use.

 

Want to stand-out with your LinkedIn profile?

 

If you want to have more than just another profile here’s a need little trick for if you want to post a website but not, Blog, Company web site, and the others like everyone else has on their profile.

Go to Profile >> Edit Profile >> at the website section click edit. In the boxes that appear choose the bottom one, “Others”. Because if you choose the bottom option you get an extra field so you can personalize the name. instead of Blog you can type My SharePoint Scrapbook or something more business-like.