Want to expand your network on LinkedIn more quickly? Make it easier for people to spot you as a person they may know.
Read more →Your home page contains several news feeds you can use to keep up to date on people in your network, as well as what they’re discussing. Use these feeds to participate in the discussions you find interesting, to start your own discussions and to get in touch
Read more →From self-bending metals to stones that repair themselves, ecopreneurs and scientists are developing a range of advanced building materials.
Read more →While your activity within LinkedIn appears in the Updates section of your contacts’ LinkedIn home pages, you can add to current conversations, comment on their activity, and even post some topics of your own. Using these features is similar to speaking with people at a networking event.
Read more →A huge benefit to networking is that you can ask questions of experts. Even in our Internet-enabled era, asking questions of real people reduces the time it takes to learn things. From a pure networking point of view, you can also direct questions at specific connections. And
Read more →In September 2012, LinkedIn introduced Endorsements. Once you add Skills to your profile, your first-level contacts can endorse you for those skills by clicking an icon.
Read more →When you created your LinkedIn profile, you added the information LinkedIn considers part of a complete profile. LinkedIn also lets you add information about things like causes you support and volunteer activity as well. This information can help attract attention from other LinkedIn members looking for people
Read more →Networking often leads to serendipitous outcomes, but meeting people who share interests can make networking more effective. That’s why people join groups in LinkedIn. By joining groups, you can do things like: learn about others with similar interests. find out what they’re talking about in group forums.
Read more →To further their professional interests, people commonly investigate specific companies. Now, in addition to traditional research sources like media mentions and a company’s own web site, people can look for company “pages” on LinkedIn.
Read more →Suppose you’re looking for insight on how best to achieve a business or career goal. Goals might include: gauging interest in a new product or service you’re developing ranking different products or services available to you finding out which job-search strategy would work best in a given
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