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In this article, Linda provides readers with a basic overview of LinkedIn, and how you can use it as a stationery and low-maintenance tool that will help your career.
By this time, you may have set up a Facebook and Friendfeed account and perhaps even started a group at one or the other – or both. Now you're ready to set up a LinkedIn account, where you can send prospective clients to view your resume and your professional side. In this article, Linda provides readers with a basic overview of LinkedIn, and how you can use it as a stationery and low-maintenance tool that will help your career.
LinkedIn's Appeal
By now you're probably wondering how you'll find time for all this socializing, between Facebook and Friendfeed. This week, I'll introduce you to a social tool that serves two purposes:
1. LinkedIn is a tool that is not thirsty for your attention. Set it up, check on it occasionally, and use it as a communications tool that shows your professional side and then let it work for you.
2. LinkedIn is another way to use a social tool to link to your site and to other sites where you show a professional presence.
In other words, LinkedIn can serve as your contact page (much like a phone book), your resume centre and a tool that shows a bit of your personality, but not enough that someone may learn that you spend your weekends bungee jumping from the skid of a helicopter into the gaping maw of a bubbling active volcano .
Linda Goin
Linda Goin carries an A.A. in graphic design, a B.F.A. in visual communications with a minor in business and marketing and an M.A. in American History with a minor in the Reformation. While the latter degree doesn't seem to fit with the first two educational experiences, Linda used her 25-year design expertise on archaeological digs and in the study of material culture. Now she uses her education and experiences in social media experiments.
Accolades for her work include fifteen first-place Colorado Press Association awards, numerous fine art and graphic design awards, and interviews about content development with The Wall St. Journal, Chicago Tribune, Psychology Today, and L.A. Times.