Are You LinkedIn?

My cousin Josh posted a blog on his website a couple of days ago about how he was updating his LinkedIn profile. For those who aren’t familiar with this service, it’s kind of like MySpace without angsty teens, awful grammar, and horribly designed pages. From what I can tell, it’s a very professional environment where business professionals go to be seen and increase the size of their personal networks.

In his post, Josh discusses how he heard about LinkedIn and why he uses it. He also links to some good articles, including one in Wikipedia that discusses what it is and this one that discusses how this service can be used to one’s benefit. (I recommend that you check out Josh’s entire webiste. He has lots of good stuff on it.)

Josh isn’t the only one that I know who is using it. A couple of weeks ago, I received an invitation to join from Holly’s brother-in-law. He told me that it’s a really good way to meet business professionals which helps lead to better job opportunities. I thought that better job opportunities are usually not a bad thing so I actually tried to set up an account at that time but the site would never load on my computer. I discovered that this was due to my filter blocking all “social networking” sites. Once that was resolved, I was finally able to join and set up my own profile. You can check it out here.

I’m not sure how much benefit this will bring me but I figure that if it’s half as good as everybody says that it is, then it’ll be pretty beneficial.

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