The hidden side of having lots of followers when EQ is your thing The stock market has seen better days 20,000 Followers I reached that last week on LinkedIn You’d think I’d be over the moon about that, and on one hand I am, but it’s not quite as simple as that. Yes, my followership has been gathering pace […]
Diverse group of four business partners or entrepreneurs holding their thumbs up in approval or to like something in their office ” data-medium-file=”https://dougthorpe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/65604777_m-650×434.webp” data-large-file=”https://dougthorpe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/65604777_m-1024×683.webp” /> We’ve all heard various ideas about managing our lives. When you break it all down, things can get lumped into these three categories. And we’ve all heard the saying: “Live […]
What would the movie credits of your life look like? “But do you actually know all those people”, a friend asked me as we were discussing our differing approaches to how we use LinkedIn. She’d read my recent blog all about how I treated LinkedIn as a journal and was grilling me about it — I’ve previously explained […]
The anatomy of a social media like — why do people hit like on a post? Me when I look at LinkedIn Recently I downloaded my data from LinkedIn to see what my biggest posts of all time were. As an analytical person, I was curious to see if there was a pattern, something I could learn from in terms […]
This is not my desk nor hands “You need to post less” said the LinkedIn expert I spoke to this week. “The algorithm doesn’t like it when you post so much.” He was referring to the fact that the previous week I had been posting on average 3 times a day. Consideration of the algorithm may be important for […]
“Feed the beast and the beast will feed you” — 3 LinkedIn examples from my week that emphasise why doing this effectively increases my surface area of luck John Amaechi is such a lovely man but how did I end up meeting him? Read on… Last year I took part in a interview with a class of British school […]
This heartrate is very erratic — my 2023’s LinkedIn impressions Almost a year ago I wrote an article titled: “Why I had to change my relationship with LinkedIn and how I did it” In it I reflected on my changing way of using LinkedIn; I was moving from being someone who would spend almost half of each working […]
