LinkedIn is a professional social networking website with over 200 million members, its a great place to manage your professional identity and to engage with people on a professional level. So why would you want to how to remove a contact from LinkedIn? People are usually careful about who they connect with on LinkedIn as its not the same as other networks it is usually for work purposes but some people like to be open networkers, and connect with many people, and on LinkedIn these are called LIONs.

What is a LinkedIn LION

It stands for Linked In Open Networker, it basically means that they will accept invites from anyone, even if they don’t know them, where as LinkedIn always used to be the place that you never, ever connected with people you didn’t already know. However things in social networking have changed somewhat since the old days and many people want to grow their networks and reach out to new contacts. That being said, there are still people that will hit the I don’t know this person button and that could get you into trouble on many networks.

So, many people love to connect and engage with new people, its how we grow our networks – However sometimes, there may be an occasion say for instance you realised one profile was fake, you were getting too many spam emails from a person or you just decided you didn’t want to be friends on LinkedIn any more – and you might want to know how to remove a contact from LinkedIn - because we do not do this very often, we forget, and in fact I think it may have been changed in the last year. So this is how you do it.

Delete a contact from your LinkedIn Account

Its as easy as pie, when you know how.

Click Contacts

Click Connections

on the far right Click Remove Connections

Find the person you want to remove in the list of Connections (Surname first)

Click remove connection

Click Yes I do want to remove

And that is done, connection removed.

And that’s how to remove a connection from LinkedIn - I hope that you never have to do that, but if you do find you are getting spam emails or you just don’t like what you see, then this might be the best option.

Short and sweet.

Today I started an Empire Avenue account and have just spent far too long playing it; yes, something else to get addicted to.

The Social Media Exchange

Empire Avenue is a social networking game that allows you to buy and sell your friends and indeed gain new friends. This is the same as friending or following users.

It actually launched to the public in July 2010 so many of my friends and connections have already started their communities, and today I’ve been busily buying their shares.

Its free to join, you can join with your Facebook account or if you prefer – with your email address.

You then need to choose your own ticker symbol, I chose my twitter account name as I do for most things. Michelledh. Your account is then started.

The first thing to do is add your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Linkedin accounts. These appear to take a few days to set up as some of mine aren’t showing yet and there is a question mark on the others.

As you go about your normal day using social networks and posting blogs etc – the higher your share price goes up and then when more people buy your shares up they go again. The more you interact and share, the more you are worth. Interacting on Empire Avenue itself helps too, on the communities and posting shout outs.

Then you can add your blog and RSS feed, the blog needs to be endorsed by five people. Which my hasn’t been yet… (hint)

Start investing

On Empire Avenue you use Eaves (The name for the virtual currancy) to buy shares of others and this in turn connects you to that player, you can send them messages and there are many chat features too, mostly this seems to be for people begging you to buy their shares though.

If you are unsure what to do, and you will be there is a intro video (wish I’d seen that first). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wOtOcqFsI8&feature=player_embedded

There are achievements to earn as in Foursquare and other similar games. These are mine so far, baring in mind I’ve just started today.

Find out what you are worth

Aside from creating more contacts, you are creating communities of people, and showing the world how good you are at interacting, sharing. Doesn’t matter if you have 5 followers on twitter or 500000 its what you do with them.

I suppose its another way of finding out what you are worth on line, a bit like your Klout score but much more detailed as you have to earn this worth, you can’t sit there and do nothing. I am not sure how accurate the data is on these sites it, if at all but we all love them, and Empire Avenue is enormous fun along the way.

The only downside I’ve found so far is that, the pages are slow at loading so what will happen when more users join?

Buy a piece of me here Michelledh Empire Avenue

Hope this helps

Techie Minx

The technical blog that helps

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