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Recent threads:

LINKEDIN: Does LinkedIn take measures to protect my privacy?
PINTEREST: I pinned an image to the wrong board. Can I move it?
TWITTER: What is Twitpic and how do I share photos on Twitter?

LINKEDIN: Does LinkedIn take measures to protect my privacy?

The short answer to this question is ‘yes’. There are privacy settings in LinkedIn that give you control over who can see your profile, how much of it they can see, what you are contacted about and how.

LinkedIn lets you select your contact preferences and your public profile settings.

1. Selecting your contact preferences.

There are 3 ways to make a connection in LinkedIn.

• by emailing people directly, for contacts who you have an email address for
• by being introduced by one of your connections – this is called an ‘introduction’
• by InMail (for premium users only)

Selecting your contact preferences allows you to choose which opportunities you are willing to be contacted about and whether you want to be contacted by introductions only or by introductions and InMail.

Login to your LinkedIn account.

Click on ‘Profile’ and from your profile page scroll down to ‘Contact [your name] for’ and click on ‘Change contact preferences’.

The InMail service is only available to premium LinkedIn users, who pay a small fee.

Select the type of messages you will accept and choose the opportunities you are interested in and ‘Save Changes’.

The next step is to choose your public profile settings.

2. Selecting your public profile settings

Click on ‘Profile’ and go to ‘Settings’ located under your name on the top right hand side of the page.

Here you can select the privacy controls and settings for your profile, your email preferences, your groups companies and applications and your account.

3. Extra security tips

• Only connect with people you know and trust.
• If you feel your number of connections are getting out of control, you can reduce them by going to the ‘Contacts’ page and clicking ‘Remove Connections’. You can then remove any  inappropriate connections.
• If you are concerned about your privacy don’t add your phone and address details in the personal information section and choose not to display your email address in your profile.
• Select who can see your connections from your profile privacy settings.

In Settings, click ‘Select who can see your connections’. Select ‘Only you’ and ‘Save changes’.

Was this tutorial helpful? Leave your comments below.

For more LinkedIn tutorials visit our Getting Started with LinkedIn page.

PINTEREST: I pinned an image to the wrong board. Can I move it?

It is easy to misplace an image on Pinterest and accidentally pin it to the wrong board. Thankfully it is also as easy to move accidental pins to your desired board without any drama.

Take the below image for example. So we’ve accidentally pinned the interior of a cafe to our “Books worth reading” board. Clearly this image doesn’t belong here.

Now we need to move the image to the appropriate board. To do this click the “edit” button located next to the “repin” button and a new window will open.

Here you can edit everything relating to this pin from the description to the image source, as well as deleting the pin entirely. We however want to simply move the image to a different board, so click the board drop down menu and select the correct board. The click “save pin”. You’ve now successfully moved your pin to your desired board.

Have you ever accidentally pinned an image to wrong board? Did you use this method to move it? Leave your comments below.

For more helpful Pinterest tutorials visit our Getting started with Pinterest page.

TWITTER: What is Twitpic and how do I share photos on Twitter?

Twitpic is simply the host website that lets you share and upload images and videos to your Twitter feed. However you do not need a Twitpic account to upload images or videos, instead you can follow this fail proof and simple procedure:

To upload a photo/video click the feather quill button in the top right-hand corner of your window like you would when composing a new tweet. The “What’s happening?” mini window will pop up.

Now click on the little camera icon that appears beneath the text field in the “What’s happening?” window (i.e. the first grey icon). The “file upload” window will open. Now select the image or video you want to upload to your Twitter feed.

Your image has now been uploaded, all that’s left to do is write an accompanying tweet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What Twitter image hosting website do you use? Was this tutorial helpful? Leave your comments below.

For more Twitter tutorials visit our Getting started with Twitter page.