Is your LinkedIn Updates feed quite noisy? Do certain people dominate your Updates? Do many of your contacts feed their Twitter Stream into their LinkedIn automatically? Would you like an easy way to filter your updates so that you can find out information that is important to you?
I thought I would share five simple ways to make sure you don’t get overwhelmed!
1. How to hide prolific people from your updates
Sometimes some people will be updating constantly which means you might miss updates from your other connections. This might happen when people have connected their Twitter feed to automatically post updates on LinkedIn. You can hide their updates from you without losing them as a connection.
- Simply hover to the right of their status update
- The word “Hide” will appear
- Click on the word “Hide”, you can always undo this action later.
- You will no longer see their updates
- Their updates will still be visible to you from their profile.
- To see who you have hidden and to unhide them in the future, see below
2. How to search your updates for information that interests you
1. Find “Search Update”
2. Choose the topic that you want to search for by using keywords
3. This search will search all the updates on LinkedIn.
You can further filter your search by
- How they are networked to you
- Company
- Industry
- How recent the update was
- Location
- Other filters to make the search more relevant to you
You can save the search if you are likely to use it again.
3. LinkedIn Today
LinkedIn will now present the top five articles that they believe are relevant to you each day. You will find these here
To adjust LinkedIn Today to showing you the articles that you are interested in, click on the LinkedIn Today hyperlink on your Status update or find it under “More”. The video below is from the LinkedIn Learning Centre.
4. How to Customise your Updates you see on your Home Page
- From your options of your Status Bar select “More”
- and then select “Customize”
- It will then open up on the screen below
- The default is set to you seeing everything
- untick the boxes you don’t want to see
5. How to filter your updates in other ways
You are given a number of other ways to view your updates such as to see which activities are taking place in groups by your connections. It is worth having a play around to see which ones are useful to you. Knowing the different ways you can view your updates means that you can be more efficient with your time.
Let me know if you found this useful by leaving a comment below, thank you.
Nicky Kriel
Nicky Kriel is a Social Media Coach & Trainer inspiring, educating and empowering Business Owners to use Social Media more strategically. She is also the author of How to Twitter for Business Success. For more information visit http://www.nickykriel.com or to find out about her courses that she runs in Guildford visit http://www.nickykriel.com/courses
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Great advice, as always! Now I don’t have to look at updates from my connection who is so automated the same thing comes up multiple times in my feed!!
Hi Janet again
I am glad this post was useful to you. It is nice to see that my old posts are read x
I’m glad filtering out Twitter feeds was your first port of call! When I tell people not to do this because it annoys people and they will block you, they say, “Maybe it’s just you, and everyone else likes seeing my tweets…”
Hi Sheree
Glad we are on the same page. Thank you for your comment.
Nicky
The problem with your solution (#1) is that this hides *all* updates from this user. Plus I have to do this for every single culprit. I would like to have the option ‘hide all Twitter updates’, leaving the normal manual updates untouched.
Hi Arno
I think a large number of people would agree with you. Every now and then I have a play to see if LinkedIn has changed things at all, but for now the Twitter feed is still with us.
Nicky
Arno, I bet if you check, you’ll find that most people who automatically feed their tweets to LinkedIn very rarely log into LinkedIn to do anything else. But I agree it would be nice to be able to filter out all Twitter updates!
Very Good point, Janet x
I agree with you. Alternatively, I could give the person feedback about this but I wonder if this would improve the relationship
Hi Arno
It is very likely that they have never considered that they are annoying people by feeding their Twitter directly into LinkedIn. If they are inactive on LinkedIn they may have even forgotten. You could always send them a link to this. http://www.nickykriel.com/blog/twitter/how-to-disconnect-twitter-from-linkedin/
Nicky
Hi,
Is there a way to search for recent activity/update about a particular connection?
Thanks,
Harsh
Hi Harsh
If you go to someone’s profile you can see all their recent activities. There is a section called Activity and you can click to “see more” to see recent activities.
Nicky
Thanks Nicky.
I don’t see activity section in my connections’ profile page. Is it only for Power users or may be you can post a screen-shot, if possible?