Linkedin is a business-related social networking site, you’ll be joining 100 million professionals who are sharing connections, ideas, and opportunities. And it’s free!
The mission of Linkedin is to connect the world’s professionals to enable them to be more productive and successful. Their services are available through their website, mobile applications, and developer platform, to help you to be connected with millions of other professionals by interacting, exchanging ideas, learning skills, finding opportunities or employment, and making decisions in a network of trusted relationships and groups.
How to use Linkedin
To Find…..
- Finding Employment And An Instant Resume Online
- Finding consulting or contracting positions
- Hiring Employees, Contracting or Recruiting
- Finding Information About Industries
- Reconnecting and Staying In Contact With Colleagues
- And More….
To Be Found….
- Request past or present references
- Inquiries About A position
- Deal Proposals
- Relevant Requests For Expertise About An industry, products or company
- And much more….
Through the past year following this year of June 2011, Linkedin rated #2 for social networking sites and experienced a 63 percent growth passing Myspace. Another chart for tracking review.
Linkedin General Guidelines To Open A Profile
There are several general stages to get you started by establishing your own professional profile. By connecting with others through inviting and sharing your profile to join you or requesting for references from former employers or employees.
Once you completed most of the general information, you will soon get to the exciting part by adding Apps like your WordPress blog, Reading list by Amazon and more. Also you’re able to utilize additional links to share with others, like your twitter, facebook or website to make it easier for others to know more about you and connect.
This is important, make sure to customize your Linkedin profile url to make it easier for others to find you. Just click on the customize link and place a name in the set address box so it makes it simple to find or by referring your profile url. See the example below.
Another helpful category is the advance job search to find the type of job, location and job functions available. Employers can list job and search for potential candidates. Now just because this service is free, it has its limited use, plus you are able to upgrade for a fee. Which applies to posting for a job and Linkedin specify a list of what it services covers with the free plan and the upgraded plan. I’m pleased with the free feature and it fulfills most of my usage for this site.
Keep in mind this social networking site is visited by many serious professionals looking, offering, creating positions, careers and entrepreneurial business-related opportunities.
Linkedin’s 5 Places To Optimize
In-conclusion, five places you must fill in, to optimize it with good keyword information to rank high when someone is searching for your name, product or service.
- Headline
- Past Work History
- Current Work Experience
- Summary
- Specialties
I hope this post has been of assistance to you, if so please leave me a sweet comment and share it with others. Keep a look out for my next post….
To Your Social Networking Success! Mahalo, Lani 
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Nice Tips On LinkedIn…. I am not very active on LinkedIn But with this article i have to turn again
Nice Tips.
Thanks.
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Lani,
Great post. I am new using LinkedIn. I didn’t realize it was the #2 social media spot. I will definitely need to do more work to get my profile noticed..
BTW, this was my first time on your blog. It looks great. And thanks for the helpful information.
Have a great day!
Chuck
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Hi Lani!
Let me just say that I like your blog’s new look!
Yes, this post of yours is such a simple read and could really help out those who are new to LinkedIn as well as refresh the memory of those who are already in it (like me!).
@ Elmar, I appreciate the compliment on my blog, the looks that is. I do look forward sharing with the novice as well as with most. I know I am always learning as I go and progressing with time. I do enjoy the process.
Mahalo, Lani
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Aloha Lani!
I love your post! Thank you for showing a lot of detail and the hyperlinks to the articles with the stats and graphs are awesome!! I didn’t know that LinkedIn had jumped into the #2 spot! Wow, that is significant.
I really love screenshot videos when learning new technical things. I love to stop the video, go to the site in the video, and follow along as you are teaching. It’s the most effective way to “cause the student to learn”.
And I love the example in your video… LOL! Thank you so much for using us as an example. It’s so interesting because I was just telling my husband how you and I have connected through social media. It’s so cool to connect with like-minded friends who we haven’t “physically” met yet.
You are incredible and you have such a “gift” in understanding all of this “new language” of social media. Thank you for always being willing to share with those of us who are not as “akamai” at it.
Much love & aloha,
Kellie
@Kelly, love your sweetness on my post here and glad I can be of assistance. Gosh I haven’t heard nor seen that word much, “Akamai” it sure make it seem closer to knowing wonderful folks online. Yeah, I figure it all came in good timing to illustrate you folks in my video clip and dang you guys worked well with it. Lol Mahalo, Lani
Hey sweetie,
You miss Hawaii now? Maybe you will visit me someday and we will get to meet. You are truly “da bes” and I feel very connected to your soul.
Love you Lani
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Nice overview of LinkedIn. I’ve begun to use it more and more and have made awesome contacts! I find it a great place to find others who will promote my products and services
@Martha, I appreciate your sweet comment. It’s amazing there are awesome professional social networking sites to interact on and discovering new ideas and so many with great creativity to enhance our business. Mahalo, Lani
Hi Lani: I love LinkedIn. I recently wrote a 2-part article for Peter Bowerman’s (Well Fed Writer) where I mentioned 60% of my clients started in one form or another at LinkedIn. It does have a different etiquette than other platforms and the basics make the difference. This post provides that-well done!
Thanks for sharing it.
@Cathy, glad to have you come by and leave me a sweet input. I agree it is a specific type of people with professional backgrounds and the approach is given on this business related site. Although if you take the approach the way it should be, most will welcome you on this networking site. Mahalo, Lani
To be honest, I never paid much attention to linkedin, and I thought it was much too hyped up. But seeing its current popularity and especially the traffic ranks… maybe it’s time to give it a second thought!
@Pedro, thanks for dropping by and the remarkable thing with social networking sites it does grab a lot of attention by people and Google. Always keep your options open and go for it. Mahalo, Lani
Hi Lani,
Great post that gives an overview for LinkedIn. It certainly gives a clear understanding as to how intertwine this important business site among the other major social networking sites. Thanks for sharing here.
Blessings and Aloha to you.
Nelly
@Nelly, awesome to have you hear and I enjoyed your comment. I sure like to mix social sites up, they have great benefits when you do. Most of them, are recognized by Google and folks. Mahalo, Lani