LinkedIn
What is it?
- LinkedIn is a free networking website where users make accounts geared towards business related social networking
Terminology
- Connection: The people you invite/invited
- My Network: A group of users you can contact through your connections
- Request: A request for a contact sent to another user
- Profile: What others see when they search you
- Endorsement: A short comment sent to another user that is visible to your connections
- Expired Invitation: When an invitation has not been accepted after a long time or has been declined
Getting started
- Go to linkedin.com and create an account
- To find other users:
- Type a name into the search bar and find the correct person then add them as a connection
- After you sign in, click on the “Add Connections” and you can find people through their email addresses
- You can edit your profile and add information about yourself (education, work experience, personal information, etc)
- There are ways to make your profile completely private by going to the “contact settings”
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