LinkedIn is one of my favorite Web 2.0 apps. It gives me a great way to keep business contacts. With the latest feature, LinkedIn Answers, it creates another dimension to receive great insights and advices from professionals. In short, it is a grown up version of Myspace.
Guy Kawasaki suggests 10 more ways (his readers contributed two more) to use LinkedIn. They give me more excuses to spend more time into LinkedIn:
- Increase your visibility
- Improve your connectability
- Improve your Google PageRank
- Enhance your search engine results
- Perform blind, “reverse,” and company reference checks
- Increase the relevancy of your job search
- Make your interview go smoother
- Gauge the health of a company
- Gauge the health of an industry
- Track startups
- Ask for advice
- Integrate into a new job
- Scope out the competition, customers, partners, etc
I want to add Use it as your online resume. I have added a profile button at my personal homepage. Good thing is that I do not have to create another page to keep my resume online. It also contains recommendations from other people who endorsed my work. With that, there are responses/queries coming on my work from both LinkedIn and email.
Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn – [How to Change the World]
