OK so we've added in our external links from the previous lecture to the digital properties before we
start making any other changes to our profile it's really important that we understand the privacy settings
within Linked-In and there's a couple of really good reasons for that.
And then I'll jump right on into them so first of all to be able to find the privacy settings you simply
need to navigate to the little photo of yourself on the top right hand corner of the page and then go
all the way down to privacy and settings and you've got a little manage button.
If we click on that you may be asked to sign in again with your password is absolutely fine.
And then you get sent through to this page here.
I encourage you to spend some time and go through this page.
A way to make sure everything's right exactly as it should be for you.
However there are a couple of things that I think are worth mentioning at this point.
So we don't bombard and upsets or give too much away to current and existing network.
What I mean by that is there's a couple of the privacy controls here I want to highlight or bring your
attention to.
One is turn on off your activity broadcasts.
Now if you click on that you can see if you get a full description of each of these if you're not familiar
with them while you're not sure what they mean.
I encourage you to click on them all and read them and make sure it's set up as you want them.
However I do advise that you turn off activity broadcasts.
Now essentially what this means is that's turned off and people in your network won't be updated.
Any time you change your profile picture or your headline or you change your job description because
you are trying to optimize it.
Now this is quite important certainly while you're making changes to your LinkedIn profile.
Let's put it this way if you were to start or spend the next hour optimizing your LinkedIn profile and
making lots of changes and amendments every time you hit that save button your network will be updated
with that small change that you will have made.
Now that can be really really quite annoying.
It's not relevant in most cases.
So whilst you make plenty of changes to your Linked In profile which we will be doing in later lectures
it's really important that we have this turned off if you want to you can turn it back on afterwards.
But be aware every small change that you make will be sent out to your network for a series of updates.
Next I'm not going to go through every single one of these there's just a few that I do think are quite
important.
Next we have selects who can see your activity feed.
Now we want to reach as many people as we can with Linked-In and I don't expect you to believe me blindly
again we will go through this in later lectures as to why it's such a good idea to have a broad and
very deep audience rather than a very narrow one.
So for this particular one I'd like to everyone if I'm going to do something.
Status update or I have my activity feed turned on.
I want absolutely everybody to be able to see that selects what others see when you've viewed their
profile name.
If you look at somebodies linked in profile depending on the type of account they have and that sort
of thing will determine how much they can see of you.
Now personally if I'm looking at someone's LinkedIn profile I have absolutely no problems at all with
them being able to see that I've looked at their profile in fact it's led to one or two very interesting
conversations which we will talk about in another lecture so I always make sure they can see by my headline.
I don't Troyan hide any of my details or anything like that.
It's not like I'm snooping around or spying on people an next step East turn on off how you rank name
how you rank shows how you compare to your connections and colleagues in terms of profile views.
Nay I have this turned off and the only reason why I see this is because if for example in a particular
week I haven't had many Profar views and somebody is trying to see how active I am on Linked-In or anything
like that.
I just don't think it's of any benefit for anybody else other than me to know this.
And so I'll just simply turn that off but it's entirely up to you.
You can have it on if you want to.
Next up is select or select sorry who can see your connections.
Now Atlay lay all of my connections to see all of my connections it's not that I'm being particularly
generous there.
I just don't really see the need to hide my collections away.
So I always have that set too.
Yes I like my connections to see my connections.
We can of course change that to only you.
So there are awesome uses on linked into a particularly privacy conscious about their network and they
will have that suggests set to only themselves can see their connections.
Make no promises to anybody.
Trawling through my connections and a lot of the other options here are simply around changing your
profile photo updating some of your settings around your profile your headline your Twitter or Kanes
and that sort of thing.
So I'm not I'm not going to walk through each and every single one of those.
However I just think those few privacy settings are the most important to talk third name when we become
more active on LinkedIn it can be quite annoying.
To be honest where we constantly get bombarded with emails from groups or emails from personal connections
and that sort of thing.
And if you were getting too many notifications from linked in or too many communications from Linked-In
it's this communications tab here that you would need to click on and then you can set the frequency
of the emails.
So from here you can change your email frequency for other members updates and news group digests notifications
and so on.
It is entirely personal preference which communications you have on or off.
Personally I have very few email notifications turned on because I'm consistently bombarded with e-mail
every single day and I try and eliminate as many of those unnecessary emails as I can.
So it's just worth mentioning if you are getting bombarded with spam or you want to try and block users
you can also block users specifically from the basic profile type.
Right down at the bottom here you can manage who you're blocking as you can see I'm not blocking anybody
but there is a complete list of frequently asked questions around member blocking and how you go about
doing that and so on.
So hopefully a bite.
I haven't been through this lecture you'll be able to understand exactly how you can eliminate the spam.
Make sure that the visibility of your profile is absolutely accurate for what you want it to be.
Make sure that your connections can see the most important stuff was being able to hide the irrelevant
stuff from your connections that are of absolutely no benefit to them or you in them seeing them.