One of the biggest complaints I hear about LinkedIn has nothing to do with the platform. It's centered on the massive numbers of messages that professionals get when they sign up. It clogs up your inbox, both in your LinkedIn account and email. It’s like trying to get a drink from a firehose. Here a few simple tools to control the information that is coming at you.

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3 Ways to Stop
the Flood of
Information
from LinkedIn
David J.P. Fisher
In/iamdfish
@dfishrockstar

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One of the biggest
complaints I hear about
LinkedIn has nothing to
do with the platform. It's
centered on the massive
numbers of messages
that professionals get
when they sign up. It
clogs up your inbox, both
in your LinkedIn account
and email. It’s like trying
to get a drink from a
firehose.

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Don't hate LinkedIn
because it's sharing
information with you -
that's one of the reasons
you are there. It's a matter
of tuning LinkedIn like a
radio to get just the
information that you want.
The exact nature of the
desired signal will be
determined by what you
are trying to learn from
your LinkedIn connections.

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1.
Control how
many emails
& messages
you get

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Visit the Communications tab
on the Privacy and Settings
page. You can manage how
you get emails about the
various activities on LinkedIn.
Whether it's connection
requests, activities in your
Groups, or LinkedIn Pulse, you
can choose to get emails once
a week, once a day, or not at
all.
Visit the Communications
tab on the Privacy and
Settings page. You can
manage how you get
emails about the various
activities on LinkedIn.
Whether it's connection
requests, activities in your
Groups, or LinkedIn
Pulse, you can choose to
get emails once a week,
once a day, or not at all.

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Again, it depends on how
you are using LinkedIn. If
you are visiting the site
daily, then maybe you
don't need to get reminder
emails because you'll see
those connection
requests anyways. If you
want to be make sure that
you don’t miss anything,
get a weekly digest email
and you'll be able to
respond to anything that's
relevant.

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2.
Optimize
how people
can reach
out to you

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If you are using LinkedIn to
build a robust network to
support your offline
relationships, you can keep
your LinkedIn account
relatively welcoming. You
can allow anyone to send
you an invitation and
choose to accept
Introductions, Inmails, and
even Open Link messages.
All of this is controlled
through the same
Communications tab.

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You can also limit this flow
of messages if people are
abusing this; which can
happen a lot if you are in a
role where salespeople,
recruiters, or job applicants
pester you. Remember
that by limiting the inflow of
messages and invitations
you are also making it more
challenging for the people
that you want to interact
with. In networking,
balance is important.

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3.
Control
your
Newsfeed

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One of the most powerful
tools on LinkedIn is the
ability to "listen" to what's
happening in your
network in just a few
minutes a day. It can be
incredibly annoying when
you have a connection
that gums up the works
by posting ten articles in a
row or liking fifteen other
posts. You have to scroll,
scroll, and scroll down to
get past them.

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You can remove them as a
connection, but what if you
want to remain connected
and simply avoid their
chatter. You can hide them
from the newsfeed and
prevent them from
overpowering everyone
else (and retain the
connection). By all posts,
there is a small dropdown
triangle that will allow you
to hide that user from the
newsfeed.

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Taken together, these
three steps will allow you
to focus on the most
important activities that
are happening within your
network. Sure, not every
email and status update
will be relevant, but there
will be much less static to
obscure the important
messages that are
coming to you every day.

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If you found these tips
useful, you should check
out my book, Networking
in the 21st Century…on
LinkedIn. It’s full of
strategies, tactics, and
tips that will make you
online network a robust
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world.
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I help individuals and
organizations harness the
power of relationships to
uncover new opportunities
and make existing
business easier.
Basically, I help them take
"networking"​ from being
just a buzzword to a viable
business tool.
Come see what I’m
working on over at
iamdfish.com
@dfishrockstar