5 Need to Know LinkedIn Tricks

photo credit: Adriano Gasparri

Recently I’ve been writing more and more about LinkedIn. It is seriously a great website / social media channel to engage and expand your network.

I’ve been joining a lot of different groups to see what people are doing and what is happening. There are really so much people out there how are an expert in their own way or are able to help your business to the next level, all you have to do is connect and ask or just follow the timeline. I stumbled across a post from “Sean Nelson from Socialmediasonar.com and I added some of my own items.

How to add a You Tube Video to Your Profile

You can do this with either Slideshare or Google Presentation.  Here is how you would add a video using Google Presentation:

1. Add the Google Presentation application
2. Go into Google Docs and create a new presentation
3. Click on Insert (top link) and click on Video
4. Search for your video on YouTube and choose your video
5. Click on File (top link) and choose Rename – rename your presentation
6. Go back into Google Presentation from your Profile
7. Click on your video and Post to Profile

When the slide show is clicked the video will play.

How To Create an Email Signature on LinkedIn

You can use LinkedIn’s Email Signature Tool to add a LinkedIn signature to your Outlook (2003, 2002 XP, and 2000), Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Yahoo email accounts.

Here are 3 examples you can easily choose from. I didn’t fill in all the information needed to complete a signature but you get the idea. There are 17 templates available;

To create your signature do the following:

1. At the bottom of each LinkedIn page there are three rows of text links.  Click on ‘Overview’ at the bottom of your home page in the ‘Tools’ row.

2. Click on the ‘Try it Now’ button in the ‘Email signature’ area at the bottom of the ‘LinkedIn Tools Overview’ page.

Once you fill in the information you would like to include click the text link “Click here for instructions”.  This will open up a pop up window with the html code and instructions.

Customize your Search Views

When you conduct a people search or a Group member search you get a list of the results.  At the top is a drop down to choose how to view the results.  You can choose Basic, Extended, or Create a New View.  Choosing the New View opens a pop up window that allows you to include what you would like in your view.

This is a Premium feature that is available for a time to all types of accounts.  Use it while you can and don’t be surprised if one day it disappears if you have a free account.  LinkedIn wants to suck you in and once enough people use it, it will become a carrot to get you to upgrade to a paid account

Have new questions emailed to you based on a topic

Track topics based on keywords and categories in LinkedIn Answers to review and respond to questions posed by other LinkedIn members.  When you look at a category on the right side at the bottom of the Browse box is a text link to “Subscribe to new questions in” whichever category you are currently viewing.

Add Personal Contact Information to your profile

At the bottom of your Profile Edit page is a space to include the following information:

• Phone number
• Instant Messaging ID
• Address
• Birthday (this my be handy for relatives and important clients)
• Marital Status

As you can see I didn’t include all my personal information. There are limitations of what I want to be “out there” and I’d rather people would contact me and ask for more details. A lot of stuff is already available on my Facebook page but at least those are friends.. or people I know a little bit better..

If you want some more tips and tricks, don’t forget to have a look at my previous post about LinkedIn “How To Use LinkedIn” as there are also tons of tips and tricks for you to use on your LinkedIn page. Another great course is by LinkedIn Guru and all around nice guy Lewis Howes and his LinkedInfluence Course.

Keep networking,

Ralph

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