This week I am examining the relative merits of LinkedIn a professional social networking platform. LinkedIn claims to have more than 675 million members, and markets itself as a way to manage and build your professional identity and network. Like most similar platforms, LinkedIn requires a user to sign up for an account both to …
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I’ve always found LinkedIn a bit of a tricky fit. It’s a bit too “worky” for me to want to check at home, and a bit too “job hunty” to want to check at work. So message requests tend to pile up before I get round to reading them, and it’s usually from people I … Continue reading LinkedIn →
Thing 20: Professional Social Networks
I realised that LinkedIn is very popular in Europe, and it becomes more noticed in my home country as well. I have a LinkedIn account but only go check it from time to time, particularly when I need to look for a job again. 😀 It took certain effort to maintain and manage LinkedIn well,…
LinkedIn – Thing 20 of 23
Business Social Networking – The Devil, or merely Satan?Okay, so that might be a little bit flippant. In all honesty I have been on LinkedIn for a number of years, so to see that the 23 things had it as something I could look at as an assignment was a …
Thing 20 : LinkedIn
I have been using LinkedIn for a few years. I record my professional skills in this social media. But I still haven’t used the platform…
Thing 20: Professional Social Networks
This is a cross-post between WordPress and Medium. These last few posts for 23 Things will have to be fairly brief if I am to make it to the finish line in time. Been going in to rather greater detail than I was intending to and have time for – often the way! I joined … Continue reading “Thing 20: Professional Social Networks”
Thing 20 – Professional Social Networks (LinkedIn)
I’ve had a LinkedIn account for a long time. In fact, if the truth be told, I was surprised to read that it only started in 2010, which means it can’t be that old. I’ve never really spent much time on it; finding that when I have logged in I’ve been bombarded with requests to…
Thing 20: Professional Social Networks – LinkedIn
I have used LinkedIn for a number of years. I like that it gives me a public profile that I control, and in fact I don’t actually keep a paper CV any more, but I do update LinkedIn when something changes in my job of I gain a qualification. This ‘thing’ has inspired me to … Continue reading Thing 20: Professional Social Networks – LinkedIn →
Week 10 of 23 Things – Thing 20: Professional Social Networks (LinkedIn/Academia.edu/ResearchGate)
Thing 20 is asking me to look at LinkedIn, Academia.edu and ResearchGate. As an active user of LinkedIn and with accounts of the other two, I’ve already explored this area in great depth. I included these three sites in a Social Media at Work e-Learning package I produced when I worked at Imperial College London. […]
Thing 19 & 20 : Altmetrics, Professional Social Networks
Altmetrics are a recent addition towards attempts to measure the impact of scholarly and scientific published papers. A professional social network service is a social media platform that is focused solely on interactions and relationships of a professional nature.