zondag, januari 14, 2007
Linked-In
LinkedIn.com is one of the leading profesional networking sites. You make a free profile, and link with collegues, classmates and basically everybody you are not afraid to show your CV to. With LinkedIn.com you can expand your professional network and get in touch with new contacts through your network, write endorsements, get alerts when somebody changes positions or jobs, search for a new job, etc. LinkedIn is free, but charges for additional services such as job postings.This is a link to my profile.
On this blog from Guy Kawasaki you will find ten tips to use linkedin.
They recently added a new section to their site for exchanging knowledge: LinkedIn Answers. Users ask questions, you browse the questions in your areas of expertise and answer them, and if you provide the best answers, you become an official expert in those areas.
What I personally admire on LinkedIn is the way they do the follow-up. When I signed up for my free account some year ago, there was a good chance LinkedIn would become yet another site where I once made a free profile and hardly ever went back to. But they send you a mail every so many months with relevant information such as new contacts, a reminder to search for classmates or colleagues from your company, etc.
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