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- 1. The Who, What, When, Where, and Why of this Strange New World By http://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkhill (aka Kirk Hill) & http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnm (aka John Moore)
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- What is LinkedIn?
- Who uses LinkedIn?
- Why should I use LinkedIn?
- When should I jump in to using LinkedIn?
- Where do I find _________ on LinkedIn?
- Q & A with Kirk and John
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- It is NOT MySpace, Facebook, or Twitter
- LinkedIn is a community of over 41 million professionals
- A new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second
- A place to stay informed about your contacts and industries of interest to you
- A portal to find the people & knowledge you need to achieve your goals
- A way to control your personal brand
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- Access executives from all Fortune 500
- Lets you see how people are related to each other
- Find the people that know the people you want to meet
- Collaborate with other like minded people with the groups feature
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- Entrepreneur Creates New Company Because of Advice and Connections He Found on LinkedIn
- Advertising Professional Finds Investors and Helped his Sales Team
- After Layoff, Worker Lands New Job By Using LinkedIn Groups
- Company Hires Chief Administrative Officer and Another SVP
- Grad Student at Brown University Lands Job at Microsoft Before Graduation
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- Venture Capitalist Uses LinkedIn to Get Connected
- CEO Uses LinkedIn Jobs to Recruit Talent, Saves Tens of Thousands in Recruiter Fees
- SVP Gets $250,000 Opportunity Because of LinkedIn
- Investment Banker Uses LinkedIn to Land $300,000 in New Business
- CEO Lands Million Dollar Client Via LinkedIn
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- Looking for a job or looking to hire someone
- Looking to connect with others in the community
- Gathering information
- Building credibility and referrals
- Assisting with sales
- Finding resources
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- Reverses the Sales Process
- Open up what you offer to a much wider audience
- An accepted way to sing your own professional praises
- Gather and publish recommendations
- Track your contacts
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- Immediately if not sooner
- Profiles can be built up over time so dont worry about having all information right away
- Probably many people that you already know are on LinkedIn
- Also take a look at the LinkedIn groups that are relevant to you
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- Starts with resume type information
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- Job Experience
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- Education
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- Specialties (or Keywords)
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- Interests
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- Groups and Associations
- Add in cover letter or marketing summary
- Point to company or personal websites/blogs
- Small status line that gets posted to your connections home page and email notifications
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- Ability for people to post recommendations to your profile great marketing tool
- Tips for getting people to write recommendations for you
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- Start by recommending others
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- Ask people to recommend you
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- Write recommendations and have people approve and submit them using their LinkedIn account
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- One way to share contact information with people that you meet, however:
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- No phone, fax, or cell numbers on your contacts profiles so you will need to either enter it into the LinkedIn contact manager (Beta) or use another tool for keeping this info
- Have access to the contacts of your contacts
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- You may have 100 first level contacts
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- If those contacts each have 100, you have access to 10,000 second level contacts
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- If each second level contact has 100, you have 1,000,000 third level contacts
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- Interesting data about your first three levels of contacts
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- Number of people at each level
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- Percentage of connections by world region
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- Percentage of connections by industry
- Allows you to get a quick understanding of what types of people are in your network
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- Thousands of groups/associations that you can join and participate in
- Discussion Boards
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- Bulletin board functionality allowing members to share information and interact through comments
- News
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- Allows group members to highlight and comment on news stories that are relevant to the group
- Job Board
- Directly contact and connect with other group members
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- This is the real power of LinkedIn groups
- Group managers have control over group
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- Manage the group profile page which includes short and long descriptions and a group website link
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- Can either open group to everyone or accept members on an individual basis
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- Mark discussions as featured and to moderate discussions and comments
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- Ability to send announcements to the whole group
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- Promote Everywhere
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- LinkedIn Status
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- Blogs
- Start, comment on, and mark as featured relevant discussions on the discussion board
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- Discussion boards are heart and soul of the group
- Consider having or encouraging face-to-face, offline networking events
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- Post and comment on relevant News articles
- Use announcements intelligently and solicit feedback on the relevance and usefulness of announcements
- Cross post relevant discussions to other groups with links back to the group that you are promoting
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- LinkedIn Answers
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- Post a question to your connections and to the LinkedIn community as a whole
- LinkedIn Polls
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- Use these when you want to poll the LinkedIn community
- In addition to asking questions and posting polls, remember to answer questions and polls to get your name associated with a particular area of expertise
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- If you are not on LinkedIn you need to get on now
- LinkedIn has a ton of benefits for professional social networking
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- Online Resume
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- Online Branding
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- Groups
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- Questions and Answers
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- Polls