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Linda shows how you can add some punch to your LinkedIn profile as you begin to search for colleagues and others who can help promote your design or programming skills.
If you followed Linda's LinkedIn article last week, you now have a LinkedIn profile and you may be anxious to connect to friends and potential clients or employees. In this article, Linda shows how you can add some punch to your LinkedIn profile as you begin to search for colleagues and others who can help promote your design or programming skills.
Conclusion
Once you add applications to your page, you're ready to make contacts and recommendations. For this week, why not search for people you know and work with or those people you have worked with in the past? Make those connections first, as these people may be willing to write recommendations for you and you can write recommendations in return.
Recommendations are important, as they will help you finalize your tasks for your LinkedIn profile. Look around at recommendations made by and for others on your friends and co-workers profiles once you've connected. This is one way to learn how to write a recommendation. Other tips are shown below in the links.
In the next article, I'll show you how to find people to connect with through other methods.
Links
· How To Write An Excellent LinkedIn Recommendation: From JibberJabber
· Elements of a Good LinkedIn Recommendation: From Chris Brogan
· LinkedIn Recommendations: Five Ways to Make The Most of Them: NetWorkWorld provides some easy-to-follow recommendations on how to write recommendations!
· LinkedIn Recommendation Generator: Are you often at a loss for words? I haven't tried this tool yet, because I never lack words (just ask my friends). But, you might want to give it a shot. Just be careful, as the recommendation may not sound like you at all – in fact, it may sound like it came from a recommendation generator!
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.