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Maximizing Your Network with LinkedIn

Learn how to effectively manage your professional network using LinkedIn, a business-oriented social networking website with over 12 million registered users across 150 industries. Discover the power of building connections, leveraging your network, and utilizing features like LinkedIn Answers to expand your opportunities.

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Maximizing Your Network with LinkedIn

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  1. Managing your Network using Joint-Techs Lightning Talk Fermilab David Farmer July 18th 2007

  2. Managing your Network using Your other Network, your professional Network of people

  3. What is LinkedIn • LinkedIn is a business oriented social networking website • mainly used for professional networking • As of July 2007 • more than 12 million registered users • 150 industries • more than 400 economic regions (as classified by the service). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn

  4. What is LinkedIn • The main purpose is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact of people they know and trust in business • The people in the list are called Connections • Users can invite anyone (whether a LinkedIn user or not) to become a connection

  5. Your Profile • Provide information about you • Professional Headline (Title) • Location (City) • Current Position(s) • Past Positions • Education • Industry • Professional Goals • Expertise ETC…

  6. Your Network • A contact network is built up of • 1st degree connections • direct connections, people you know • 2nd degree connections • connections’ of connections, people your contacts know • 3rd degree connections • connections’ of connections’ of connections • This can be used, for example, to gain an introduction to some-one you wish to know through a mutual, trusted contact

  7. What else can you do? • Find Friends and Colleagues you’ve lost contact with • Make recommendations for your contacts • Find a job or other business opportunities • LinkedIn Answers, Ask Questions of the Community like Google answers or Yahoo! Answers

  8. So Get And then link to me David Farmer http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/120/2b5

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