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LinkedIn is fun and you can learn a lot from it professionally. There’s loads of opportunities to be helpful there – that’s the purpose of the internet, right?
Here’s 5 quick tips for using LinkedIn. What are yours?
- Import your contacts
This should be a no brainer. Lots of online social networks have auto-importing features. Bring your contacts into LinkedIn in three ways:- Manually – this lets you invite folks, one by one.
- Via your webmail (gMail, Yahoo!, Hotmail etc.) – find out which of your webmail contacts are already on LinkedIn.
- Upload a file of your contacts – You can export contacts to a file from just about any address book software and simply upload that file.
- Use the Firefox LinkedIn companion
Get this Firefox add-on here (and you really should be using Firefox while you’re at it). The Firefox Companion brings you immediate access to your LinkedIn network as you browse and read email.Key features:
- See LinkedIn profiles for anyone sending you Web email
- Search your LinkedIn network from any web site
- Bookmark profiles and searches for easy access
- Use LinkedIn’s Application Platform to share what you know
LinkedIn’s Application Directory is fun. You can integrate Powerpoint presentations and slideshows, events you’re attending and even RSS feeds from your Wordpress and TypePad accounts. Go ahead and add an Application to your LinkedIn profile. I use the Wordpress LinkedIn Application to bring blog posts from my Wordpress Work and Career category in to my profile. - Ask and answer questions to be helpful
LinkedIn has a great Q&A section. Pop in to ask and answer questions occasionally. There’s lots of easy questions to answer to boost your credibility and helpfulness across a broad range of professional disciplines – Marketing, Non-profit, Administration, Business Operations – and these categories drill down into even more specific sub-categories.Hot tip: each category of questions has an RSS feed of latest questions needing answering. Plug it into your feedreader and you’re sure to find loads of opportunities to be helpful.
- Update your profile regularly
You’re constantly learning new things right? Update your profile to reflect this. Be findable. And remarkable in what you do – on LinkedIn and elsewhere.
Got any other hot tips/hacks for using LinkedIn? Leave ‘em in the comments. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn here.
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