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LinkedIn Business Basics: Create a Great Profile

This is the presentation for my students at Colorado Free University. I went item by item through all the LinkedIn headers plus challenged them to create their LinkedIn profile by a certain date. If you've been putting off completing your profile, you can download a PDF file and take the LinkedIn 100% complete profile challenge: Download Challenge to LinkedIn.

LinkedIn Profile Basics

LinkedIn 101 Rotary Club in Denver

Last night I had the pleasure or presenting a brief introduction to LinkedIn to a group of Rotary members. Debra Fine, author of the bestselling book The Fine Art of Small Talk, asked me to present to the members of her chapter at their informal gathering. After watching a video on her website, I see that social media is actually not so different from her suggestions on how to engage people through small talk. Through LinkedIn and all social networks, it's  all about having a conversation with your connections, friends or followers. Her advice: show that you are listening - also great for social media.

Thanks so much, Rotary members, for having me at your meeting. Oh and my brother will be so proud that I spoke to you as he has been a member with perfect attendance of the Rotary Club in Laredo, Texas for almost 30 years. 

Why You Should Be On LinkedIn

I do love LInkedIn. You can list events. You can assume (without the makes an ____ out of you and me) the heavy hitters, influencers have LinkedIn profiles. Here's a great Article about LinkedIn. Let me know what you think.

LinkedIn: the secret to the online business network's success

With 50 million members, including Richard Branson and Alan Sugar, LinkedIn's success story quietly rivals that of Facebook

 

By Andrew Keen is @ajkeen on Twitter
Published: 12:05PM BST 22 Oct 2009

In spite of its clunky interface, credible business people can no longer afford to avoid LinkedIn.For all the continual media frenzy over Facebook and Twitter, the most remarkable social networking story of all may well be LinkedIn, the global social network for business professionals founded by serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Reid Hoffman in December 2002.

Last week, a bullish LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner announced its 50 millionth member, stressing that while it took sixteen months for the social network to get its first million members, the most recent million only took 12 days. While the LinkedIn 50 million may pale in comparison with the Facebook 300 million army, its achievement is quite remarkable when one considers that there are only around 360 million white collar professional people in the entire world (at least according to the latest International Department of Labor numbers).

So over 10% of the world’s professionals are already on LinkedIn. And with the social network now signing up a new member every second of every hour of every day, it shouldn’t be too long before the other 90% of the world’s business professionals eventually wind up in the LinkedIn universe.

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via www.telegraph.co.uk