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Anything you can do will be appreciated.

Thanks for the comments. This is one area where I often run into trouble. I write my posts in Word (now Pages since I switched to a Mac) and use spell check but that misses when I spell a word correctly but its the wrong word (can instead of can’t, etc.) There’s a reason professional writers have editors.

I’ve found that much of my time and energy goes into writing the articles and once done I’m probably the worst person to edit the document. Things that others see clearly I’m blind to. I think part of it is that the focus is on the overall message and not the mechanics. Also each article takes roughly an hour of my time to write and additional time to post, and once done I’m needing to quickly get back to the real job.

These aren’t excuses for errors because you are correct that they can impact credibility. I personally hope that the information is informative enough that the reader will cut me a little slack when there are an error or five.

Sean

Contrary to what appears to be a popular belief that “it doesn’t matter”, there are many of us who think that lack of attention to detail in written material indicates lack of attention to detail in other matters. Why would I want to work with somebody who can’t get the detail (or in some instances the basics) right?

It is very simple to improve your credibility on LinkedIn: improve the quality of your posts! Most web-browsers have a spell-checker (which judging by many posts, a large number of people do not know how to use!). MS Word has a spell- and grammar-checker: it is very easy to compose posts in Word and then copy and paste them once they have been checked.

I saw a post recently from a senior BNI executive which actually spelt “Givers Gain” as “Giver’s Gain”. Not only is this grammatically incorrect (a simple plural never, but never, contains an apostrophe), but it’s not even a true representation of a BNI registered trademark which encapsulates the single most important philosophy of the organisation! What sort of impression does that give?

Why not distinguish yourself from the rest by being better than the rest? That seems to make sense to me.

Thanks for the comments. I still think recommendations can powerful part of the credibility process, though I tend to view those from client’s as more worthy than the others.

Recommendations aren’t the end all, they are simply part of the equation when evaluating the bits and data available.

Sean

Glad the tips are proving useful. Keep reading through the articles to learn more.

Sean

Thank you for the tips. This will encourage me to use Linkedin more effectively. Very good article.