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March 16, 2009

LinkedIn 102: What’s Next After Signing Up?

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by Gabe Goldberg

Now that you’ve joined LinkedIn — maybe colleagues or friends invited or nagged you, maybe you signed up after reading about it — and created a basic profile, you may wonder what to do next. The good news is that taking a few simple steps will give you a complete profile and let you use and enjoy the service for effective professional, and personal networking.

Unless you want to use and explore LinkedIn at random — and there’s nothing wrong with that, since it can be interesting and fun, though it can miss opportunities — consider what you’d like to accomplish. Having goals in mind helps plan what to do.
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February 23, 2009

The Best Social Networks for Business and Meeting Friends

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by David Hakala

Social networks such as MySpace, LinkedIn, and Facebook are all the rage. There are a staggering number of social networks now, but you can’t join them all. Each social networking site requires some maintenance. Joining all of them would be like joining every bowling and billiards league in town. You would be spread too thin.

Which social networking site(s) you should join depends on what your objective is. For some, it’s making business contacts. For others, it’s hooking up with long-lost friends, classmates, etc. For still others, it’s about hanging out with strangers of a certain demographic profile, usually their own. The variety of motivations for joining a social network explains why so many different ones have popped up.
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February 12, 2009

How to Get Started with Online Business Networking?

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by Tina Gasperson

The people in your office have been talking about business networking online. It sounds intriguing and to hear them talk about it, it works great. It’s true that networking with colleagues and potential colleagues online can be a great way to meet new people, get your name “out there” and even find a new job or a new employee.
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January 10, 2009

How to Get Started with LinkedIn to Promote Yourself

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by David Strom

LinkedIn is one of the more popular Web sites that is part of what’s called “social networking.” You use LinkedIn to keep track of where your contacts are working and when they and you are looking to change jobs or look for potential partners or consultants to help with new projects. There are both free and paid versions, but in my opinion the free one is suitable for most individuals’ purposes.

You start by clicking on the Join Now button and entering in some basic information. While listing your educational background is optional, I would go ahead and enter it. The site will send you a confirmation message to your email address. If you are thinking about leaving your current employer, you might want to use a personal email address. Once you sign in to the service, you will see your home page which has lots of things on it. But first, let’s show you how to add people to your network. Click on the Expand Your Network button on the top of the page. There are several ways to add addresses – if you are running Microsoft Outlook, you can copy them directly there. Or if you use Gmail or Yahoo or one of the other free email services, then you can import them from these services. You can also type them in one at a time.
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