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Goofing around with TrustCloud

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

While looking into trust marks and online reputation platforms, my latest fascination and potential inspiration for what’s next for Kabissa, I came across TrustCloud (http://www.trustcloud.com) which I can imagine having the potential to really make a difference for people who … Continue reading →

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Reconquering Twitter and shifting my Twitter following to @tobiaseigen

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

Recently a wonderful new Kabissa volunteer, Ziyanda Xaso, has taken charge of our social media outreach. Ziyanda has given me an opportunity I have been waiting for to let go of the @kabissa Twitter account on a daily basis and … Continue reading →

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It worked! You can indeed ask LinkedIn to put you on a do not contact list

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

Recently I wrote a blog post about how LinkedIn email notifications work, and as part of that pointed out that there is no easy way to unsubscribe from invitations. Instead, people who never want to hear from LinkedIn can contact … Continue reading →

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Did you know? Technically, LinkedIn invites are personal email from your contacts, not LinkedIn spam

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

Yesterday I posted some tips to help deal with unwanted LinkedIn invitations. Today I received another invitation and, out of curiosity, followed the link anonymously in a chrome incognito window (control-click -> open link in incognito window). This allowed me … Continue reading →

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Preventing LinkedIn spam – how it works and tips for the spammer *and* the spammee!

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

LinkedIn is an important online tool for professional networking and maintaining a handy and attractive online curriculum vitae (mine is at http://kb2.org/eigencv), but one of its strengths (that so many people use it) is also directly related to one of its … Continue reading →

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Social Media Explained

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Tobias Eigen

Perhaps it’s because “you get out of facebook what you put into facebook” and I haven’t been spending much time on facebook in recent months, my stream has been reduced to people I know sharing (“so funny! I’m stealing this … Continue reading →

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