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Collaborative Posts are coming
On October 6, 2026 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
LinkedIn is rolling out a new feature called Collaborative Posts, which allows up to 5 LinkedIn members and Business Pages to co-author a single post. You can even collaborate on posts featuring text, images, videos, links, documents, polls and events Rather than simply tagging or mentioning someone, collaborators appear directly in the post header. That […]
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How to know if someone has read your LinkedIn message
On September 29, 2026 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
Wouldn’t it be useful to know whether someone has not only received your LinkedIn message, but read it? Well, you can. LinkedIn has read receipts, but the interesting thing is many people have never noticed them! Or have no idea what those little symbols beside their messages mean. You might have seen beside your messages […]
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Why do executive LinkedIn posts get low engagement?
On March 16, 2026 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
Low engagement is rarely about algorithms but more about personal style or lack of it! It’s about relevance, trust, and personality and yet these are so often missed in a LinkedIn post. There seems to be a perception that LinkedIn posts need to be formal, dry and dare I say boring! Executive posts often fail […]
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Is personal branding still important?
On March 9, 2026 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
Personal branding isn’t optional for anyone – it’s unavoidable. Your personal brand at a basic level is simply what people say about you when you are not present – you already have a brand, and it can get even better if you are more intentional and LinkedIn is an important part of that. Your audience […]
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Should you use AI to write LinkedIn posts?
On February 24, 2026 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
AI is everywhere in 2026, and people are evangelising and experimenting with it for LinkedIn content, but does it help or work in LinkedIn? Anecdotally when AI first hit the scene I asked ChatGPT (at the time) to write me 100 posts with a good prompt and it delivered me 68! Of those a third […]
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How often should you post on LinkedIn in 2026?
On February 9, 2026 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
One of the most common questions executives worry about or ask in a training session is “How often should I post on LinkedIn?” The answer isn’t “every day” as the reality is they might do it for a week, maybe two, but it becomes forced, inhuman and they will rapidly forget and disengage. LinkedIn is […]
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LinkedIn Company Page Admin Roles (and What They Do)
On November 4, 2025 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
LinkedIn Company Pages (or simply Pages, as LinkedIn prefers) offer several admin and paid media administrative roles, allowing businesses to manage their LinkedIn business presence at different levels. These roles are designed to control who can perform specific actions related to your Page – it’s not a single, all-access position unless you are Super Admin! […]
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Are you feeding LinkedIn’s AI? And how to stop it
On November 3, 2025 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
Interesting to get an email advice from LinkedIn re their change in AI policy, despite them putting it into place the previous week, hmmm. Like many big tech platforms LinkedIn quietly added a new setting, on by default, that lets it learn from your interactions and more. Personally, I think it is good that they […]
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5 ways to make your LinkedIn homepage more useful
On September 1, 2025 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
The homepage feed is the first thing we see when we log into LinkedIn but sometimes it isn’t that useful, helpful or value adding but you can manage it. LinkedIn gives you a range of tools to manage the homepage feed and here’s our favourite five: 1) Not all suggestions are good – When LinkedIn […]
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Have you turned into a LinkedIn ghost? It’s time to check!
On July 28, 2025 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
It is surprisingly easy to go invisible on LinkedIn and you might not even notice – but others will so it is time to check. LinkedIn has some settings to control who can see your photo which you can change and, whilst you can see your picture, others might not – yikes! Quite often when […]
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