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LinkedIn For Beginners: Part Two
linkedin, social media, business, kent smith
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LinkedIn continues to exert a powerful influence on connected job seekers, brands, recruiters and industries. Here are a few more tips to help you on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn: Groups
LinkedIn groups are spaces in which professionals and experts can share content, ask for advice, post or search for jobs and network with others. Groups are tailored to brands, associations and societies, support groups, causes, publications and industries in general.
On the other hand, don’t confuse LinkedIn “groups” with “companies.” Coca-Cola has a “Coca-Cola Current & Former Employees” group, but its business lives on “The Coca-Cola Company” company page.
With over 1.3 million groups to choose from, you’re likely to find at few that fit your field and interests. Keep in mind that many groups require authentication before the manager permits you to join. However, nearly one-third of groups don’t require review, and are labeled “open.”
Once you’re familiar with group functions, you may choose to create your own group. That means you’re the group owner, but you may also appoint a group manager and moderator, who are responsible for supervising discussions, subgroups, settings, etc.
LinkedIn: Companies
Just as you have a personal profile page, many companies choose to represent themselves on LinkedIn, too. Like Facebook brand pages, you may choose to follow the activity and updates of companies on LinkedIn.
Company pages contain general information, such as a business overview, list of employees and press mentions. Many companies also choose to list job openings on their pages, and some even encourage applicants to apply through LinkedIn, a very handy tool of the network.
Once you follow a company, you’ll see its updates appear on your LinkedIn homepage alongside those of your connections. Businesses also use LinkedIn to post company announcements, such as acquisitions, new hires or updated policies. LinkedIn warns against update spam, however: “Businesses that post updates excessively are subject to review by LinkedIn and could risk having their page deleted.”
If you’re interested in adding your own company to the network, LinkedIn advises you take the following steps.
-You’re a current company employee and your position is on your profile.
-A company email address (e.g. john@companyname.com) is one of the confirmed email addresses on your LinkedIn account.
-You associate your profile with the right company. You must click on a name from our company name dropdown list when you edit or add a position on your profile.
-Your company’s email domain is unique to the company.
-Your profile must be more than 50% complete.
-You must have several connections.
Hope these tips are helpful in getting started on LinkedIn.
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 | | This is a useful blog about LinkedIn, which I will share. |
| | |  | | Great blogpost.Thanks for sharing the nice written content here. Keep up the great work and have fun with ibo social network. |
| | |  | | Excellent post Kent:) Linkedin is a very professional network and I recommend everyone to use it. I will share for everyone to see:) |
| | |  | | Excellent blog about one of the best professional social sites for linking to networkers and business minded people. |
| | |  | | Kent,
Thanks for the information on LinkedIn. For some reason I have never been able to navigate LI very well. You have explained it very well.
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Monna |
| | |  | | Great Blog!..Hope to see more. |
| | |  | | Linkedin is a good and interesting place. Good information for people that use it and are going to start use it,
Sig |
| | |  | | great info , thanks for sharing ... a LIKE and a TWEET for you ! |
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