1 Linked In and Networking Debra Kurtz Vice President, HBA Chicago Chapter Founder and President Kurtz Consulting Inc.
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Linked In and Networking Debra Kurtz
Vice President, HBA Chicago ChapterFounder and President Kurtz Consulting Inc
LinkedIn.com
Over 35 million professionals use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas and opportunities
Stay informed about your contacts and industry
Find the people and knowledge you need to achieve your goals
Control your professional identity online
Re-connect, power your career, get answers
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Hope Deckard’s Job Debra Kurtz’s client Laurie Lucas’ identification of
subject matter experts for a client The power of “super connectors”
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LinkedIn Success Stories
How to join LinkedIn…
http://www.linkedin.com
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To download the LinkedIn Outlook toolbar
After logging in, scroll to be bottom of the page (see below)
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To join the HBA group...
Search groups (HBA)
Join this group
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Useful Tools for Research and Networking Business information
ZoomInfo.com Spoke.com CEOExpress.com
Social interaction Facebook.com
Aggregator/”life stream” Plaxo.com
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ZoomInfo
Comprehensive source of business information on people and companies To date, 45M people and 5M companies in database Extract information about people and companies from
public information sources Assembles information into summaries Offer free and paid subscriptions Valuable tool to find contacts within specific
companies, industries, and regions
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Spoke
Source of business information on people and companies To date, 40M people and 2.3M companies in database Focused on services to aid lead generation and sales
prospecting Provide business directory and detailed contact information
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CEO Express
Designed to be the busy Executive’s interface to the Internet Users have customized Dashboard
Headline news, entertainment topics, stock quotes, e-mail, etc. Services provided are not unique and can easily be created
by individual users CEOExpress provides technology to easily filter important
information and automatically populate to your customized dashboard
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Free-access social networking website Users can join networks organized by cities, workplaces,
schools, and friends Ability to communicate with communities
The Wall—post messages to user user controls privacy settings, so posts are visible only to those
allowed to see updates
Share photo albums Updates on status News feed application appears on each users home
page and includes status changes, upcoming events, and birthdays
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Plaxo
On-line address book and social networking service Automatically updates your contact information in all your
contacts’ address books Plaxo Pulse, social networking service provides tools to
manage your social media information Aggregates content from multiple social sources (i.e., flickr,
digg, YouTube, blogs, social networking sites) Allows users to selectively share and view content by pre-
determined categories (i.e., friends, family, business networks) or customized groups
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Thank you for joining us
Debra Kurtz DebraKurtz@hotmail.com (networking)
Consulting@DebraKurtz.com (office)www.DebraKurtz.com(web)
224.715.1538 (voice)
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