LinkedIn: What is it and Why Should I care

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What Is LinkedIn?Why Should I Care?

//HoeferwebBrattleboro Retreat, April 3, 2012 What is LinkedIn?Why Should I Care?

Introduction

Agenda•Objectives

•What is LinkedIn?

•Why does it matter to the Brattleboro Retreat?

•Basics

•Advanced Topics

•Company Pages

•Questions

Objectives•Understand the Basic Profile Settings and Best Practices

•Understand How To Use Status Messages

•Understand How Your Active Use of LinkedIn will help you, and help the Brattleboro Retreat

What is LinkedIn•Worlds Largest Professional Network with more than 120 million members

•Nine years old next month

• It allows you to establish “The most important page on the web”

•“Facebook for your Career” allowing you to connect and stay in touch with colleagues and friends (without subjecting them to your embarrassing college photos!)

•Recruitment, Job Postings, Job Seekers

•Rapidly expanding in to areas such News, Answers, and Company Pages

The Network Effect

Why Does It Matter To You?•Help control the message

•Allow others to validate what they have heard

•“If you are invisible you are a fraud”

•Job Opportunities (Not that any of you are looking for work!)

•Learning & Professional Development Opportunities

•Networking and Connecting with other professionals in your field

The Most Important Page On The Web

Why Does It Matter To The Retreat?•Organization growth is limited by staffing constraints (72 Openings)

•“Social” is becoming more and more important way “we humans” to find things that are good

•Professional development opportunities via information shared in your networks and areas of interest

•We want our employees to promote the good work they do, to be seen as experts in the field, and represent the Brattleboro Retreat well

•Taking every advantage of our referral networks

•Ensure we are professionally represented across the internet

LinkedIn 101: The Basics

Your Profile

Profile Settings

Custom Profile URLThis

Not This

Who’s Viewed

Make Connections

Invitation to Connect

Control Who Can See Your Connections

Send Messages

Status Stream

Status

Status Guidelines•Relevant to your professional life

• Info that is useful to the people in your network

•Questions for the people in your network

•Tasteful bragging

•Follow all laws/ethics in your profession

•You can link to Twitter if you like

Let’s Kick It Up A Notch•Groups

•Apps

•LinkedIn Today

•“Premium Service”

Groups

Groups On Your Profile

Group Page

Using Groups•Love em’ or Leave em’

•Control the Flow

• I’ve have good luck asking questions in groups

•Join and listen, then participate

•Consider starting your own...

•VT Mental Health Workers...

•Uniformed Services Mental Health Providers...

Apps: Reading List

Apps: Tripit

Apps: Events

LinkedIn Today

LinkedIn Premium

Company Pages

Company Pages•Marketing Communications Team will Coordinate

•“The Word” of The Brattleboro Retreat

•Allows for “Followers” (long tail recruiting)

•Lists Employees (who are on Linked in and have defined the Brattleboro Retreat as an Employer)

Questions

Now What?•What?•So What?•Now What?

Thanks!

Mike Hoefer

http://www.linkedin.com/in/mhoefer

(603) 369-7970

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