What happens when you need to change your plans?

Postbag

Lionel Guerraz: commenting and its effects on topic authority.

Judith Rafferty: how do we deal with birthdays on LinkedIn?

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The main topic is about changing your schedule on LinkedIn and whether it's OK to post about different topics.

About statement previews are now 6 lines long on mobile. Desktop previews are still 4 lines long.

UpLift Live Nano Bristol: our conference's little brother event is on Thursday 17 September 2026 at The Watershed in Bristol. Come to learn about LinkedIn and network. You get lunch, and if you're brave I'll review your LinkedIn profile in front of the room. Use code EARLY10 for a £10 discount until the end of May. Standard price is £59.

I'm off to Creator Day in Poole this week. See you there?

Off-topic food post

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New membership figures for LinkedIn are out. Let's take a look at the stats for this quarter.

Postbag

• Richard G Abrahams on post impressions.
• Steve Messenger on comments being turned off on every post.
• Lynnaire Johnston on verification concerns.

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• LinkedIn member results via Microsoft.
• I signed up for Premium All-in-One.
• Comments reduced from 1250 to 1000 characters.

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How do you report someone and what happens when LinkedIn ignores your feedback?

See Melanie Goodman’s post

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LinkedIn has a new CEO: Daniel Shapero

Content DNA is 6 years old – read sample chapters

Espresso+ members now get the full 32-chapter audiobook for free.

What comment features do you want?

Crosscheck AI feature

Your LinkedIn headline matters

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Postbag

Mary Wu voice note about the use of someone else's account.

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Grad's Guide 2026 – some stats around the current jobs market.

• Main report
• UK version
• US version

Creative Collision at LinkedIn HQ on 28 April

There is no 360Brew anymore?

AI People search reaches all of the US

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Postbag

Voice note response to Mark Lee’s question, from Tonny Mikkelsen.

Mark’s real question was about limiting content searches to the UK only. There's no good route for that, as the "All filters" panel on post searches does not include anything about location.

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Post collaborations

Differences between desktop and mobile versions of LinkedIn

Customise your profile username

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Postbag

Should I delete posts on LinkedIn?

Richard G Abrahams: Should I write a newsletter?

Mark Lee: Can I target my posts to certain locations?

Clip from my UpLift Live 26 talk on "direct messages and algorithmic immunity".

I put in around 12 hours of editing time to get the replays ready, and we have about 17.5 hours of content in total now available over the past 3 years of the conference.

Get your replay ticket

Social Insider report on document post engagement rates

Look out for messages saying "Email not reachable" and "Update your email to ensure you don't lose access to your account" – they're legitimate messages but seem to be associated only with LinkedIn accounts that have Gmail email addresses. Hopefully, this is a temporary issue only.

Ryan Roslansky's book: Open To Work released

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Last week we ran the third annual UpLift Live conference in Birmingham. This episode contains some reflections on the day from me and from some of our attendees and speakers.

Our speakers for the 2026 conference were, in order:

• John Espirian
• Tony Restell
• Nicole Osborne
• Mic Adam
• Guy Strijbosch
• Heather Murray
• Phill Agnew
• Dave Harland
• Brenda Meller

No Postbag this week – but please do send in your questions for next week's show.

If you missed the conference and would like to watch the talks from 2024, 2025 or 2026, please grab a replay ticket at uplift-live.com/replay

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A quick look at a document that explains why LinkedIn should be considered a social media platform just like all of the other big players.

Postbag

Teresa Ward: should we use @mentions in comments?

Lionel Guerraz: on saving money with tech tools

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Don't use the vertical pipe | symbol in your headline

Is LinkedIn social media?

UpLift Live 26 is almost here. Still time to get your ticket at uplift-live.com

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This week's show "acknowledges" the challenge LinkedIn seems to have in presenting a stable user interface to its users.

Postbag

Voice note from Kaye King about improving our feeds

Voice note from Christian Harris on LinkedIn groups

Voice note from Kate Nankivell about line spacing in the About statement

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LinkedIn is showing a weird mix of languages on the user interface. Why?

Throwback to 5 years ago when I posted a video of how to say hello and thank you in many different languages

Deliberately using typos to make text look real? (Please never do this.)

LinkedIn is the most cited domain for professional queries, according to research by Profound

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This one tip will help content creators get their external content seen.

Postbag

Espresso+: Comment "X" and I will DM you – is that a good idea?

Judi Hays voice note … about voice notes

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Getting content seen: one approach that works for me

How to reduce your LinkedIn notifications

Company page invitations reduced from 250 to 50

Removing date/time stamps

Some news about the UpLift Live 26 conference

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Among other topics, this week's show is about LinkedIn voice notes. I love them!

Postbag

Mark Lee voice note on spam comments

Niraj Kapur has sent a voice note about AI, based on the content of last week's episode.

I'll be sending more voice notes from now on – see my guide on LinkedIn voice notes

My average post length based on 5 years of data

I want to do more guest podcasts! See my past appearances on other podcasts

LinkedIn's weekly sharing tracker now gone. There are more than 10 such updates coming in the next LinkedIn Roundup for Espresso+ members.

LinkedIn Local in Birmingham: join us on 6 March.

There's now a "living" LinkedIn newsletter that links to all my episodes of this podcast and that I will update each week.

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