2025 (@2025@robpegoraro.com)
Remember to leave zero room in your luggage for this one kind of conference swag
NEW ORLEANS
Online News Association conferences have always been great for swag of one sort or another–socks, reusable shopping bags, bottle openers, reusable water bottles, notepads, and so on. But one of the most useful takeaways from ONA and sometimes other conferences takes up no room in and adds zero weight to my luggage: a new set of headshots.
Having a professionally-taken picture of myself was not among my to-do list items when I started the self-employment adventure in the spring of 2011. According to the Internet Archive, I used a screengrab from one of my few TV appearances on the bio page here, which means I probably used the same low-res picture (in which I look like I’m in my twenties) on LinkedIn.
At some point, I upgraded that bit of personal branding to a picture I took at home with a digital camera on a tripod, which looked a little sharper. But then I saw that an upcoming conference–either ONA or SXSW, I can’t remember which–would have Muck Rack providing free headshots to journalists. So I took the folks at the PR platform, whose newsletter remains a daily read, up on that invitation to have a professional photographer do a better job than I could.
That’s been my practice ever since, ensuring I have a correctly composed, focused and exposed picture I can e-mail to a conference organizer and to use here and LinkedIn. (If you were curious, I’ve stuck to selfies with some D.C. background scenery on Bluesky and Flickr, because that feels like the right thing for those platforms.) I redid that yet again Thursday morning, because my hair no longer looks like it did in the headshot I had taken at ONA in this city in 2019.
By which I mean, it’s grayer everywhere and scarcer in parts, which seems like one of the less painful personal consequences anybody could experience from having lived through the last six years.
#aging #headshots #LinkedIn #marketing #MuckRack #NewOrleans #ONA #OnlineNewsAssociation #photo #photography #portrait #selfie
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jukkan (@jukkan@mstdn.social)
When I see the LinkedIn AI crowd post about yet another "game changer", this is what I always think about.
#GameChanger #Metaverse #AIagents #LinkedIn
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DePemig (@DePemig@social.coop)
Only one reason I like a free and open social internet. (these screenshots are taken 1 minute apart)
I mean, this is not even a #darkpattern. It is just confusing to the point you think, ok, I'll stay signed/logged in.
#LinkedIn #messyInterface #UI #Microsoft
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schifeling (@schifeling@mastodon.social)
The #1 Myth about LinkedIn Profiles that's hurting millions of job seekers...
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nunesgh (@nunesgh@mastodon.social)
#LinkedIn has just blocked my personal account due to "identity violations".
Apparently I am not myself, so I have to go through an identity verification process with a third-party service I had never heard of. Otherwise, everything I had on that platform is just gone.
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reddit_tech_vn_bot (@reddit_tech_vn_bot@mastodon.maobui.com)
Tuyệt vời! Một API mới cho phép thu thập dữ liệu từ LinkedIn bằng ngôn ngữ tự nhiên hoặc truy vấn SQL. Thích hợp cho việc tạo lead và thu thập thông tin công ty.
#API #LinkedIn #DataScraping #CôngCụ #LậpTrình #AI
#API #LinkedIn #ThuThậpDữLiệu #CôngCụ #LậpTrìnhViên #TríTuệNhânTạo
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oscoder87 (@oscoder87@mastodon.social)
Cuando el #Linkedin te dice que alguien de una empresa en la que has trabajado te ha visto el perfil...
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SAINTCON (@SAINTCON@infosec.exchange)
SAINTCON has added another way to connect and be social, on a firewall-friendly service you may know as #LinkedIn
If you want to follow and connect there, search for SAINTCON or follow the link:
https://linkedin.com/company/saintcon
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reddit_tech_vn_bot (@reddit_tech_vn_bot@mastodon.maobui.com)
Chủ một founder đã thử nghiệm quảng cáo trên Reddit với ngân sách nhỏ và bất ngờ nhận thấy hiệu quả hơn hẳn so với việc đầu tư vào LinkedIn. Anh ấy tự hỏi liệu đây chỉ là may mắn hay Reddit thực sự là một kênh tăng trưởng bị đánh giá thấp. Có ai đã thử nghiệm Reddit và có kết quả tương tự không?
#marketing #startup #reddit #linkedin #quảngcáo #khởi nghiệp #tiếpthị
https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1nedkiq/what_are_you_building_this_week_and_whats_a/
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papageier (@papageier@digitalcourage.social)
Hey #LinkedIn. You required me to provide a phone number for identification to keep my account. I have not provided this number outside of the verification process, nor given consent to use or share this number.
Nonetheless I get regular cold calls to the number, who consistently and independently claim they got the number from your website.
Explain, please?
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codeinabox (@codeinabox@hachyderm.io)
Today I learnt that LinkedIn has a feature where you can hibernate your account, and today is that first time I set my account to hibernation mode. Luckily, I am not looking for work, and I could sure do with a break from all the opinion pieces about vibe coding. #LinkedIn
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iyashikei_kris (@iyashikei_kris@mstdn.social)
It's really sad how #linkedin has conditioned a generation of so-called professionals to act like bots. It's clear from the kind of DMs I get people don't even read, they cold-dm me with the most irrelevant stuff
I'm considering deleting it for good
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