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Managing your Network using. Joint-Techs Lightning Talk Fermilab David Farmer July 18 th 2007. Managing your Network using. Your other Network, your professional Network of people. What is LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a business oriented social networking website
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Managing your Network using Joint-Techs Lightning Talk Fermilab David Farmer July 18th 2007
Managing your Network using Your other Network, your professional Network of people
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
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
Your Profile • Provide information about you • Professional Headline (Title) • Location (City) • Current Position(s) • Past Positions • Education • Industry • Professional Goals • Expertise ETC…
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
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
So Get And then link to me David Farmer http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/120/2b5