LinkedIn - Your Professional Facebook

Have you built up your LinkedIn profile? Have you joined groups that will provide you with information relevant to your job search, your studies, and the practice areas in which you are interested?

If not, start with this blog posting that discusses the value of LinkedIn, but I think one of the greatest insights actually came from within the comments. As with all strategies, results will come with time invested over time. Rarely are results instantaneous! Once you've considered how you want to use your LinkedIn profile, then utilize this checklist to help you maximize the many features of LinkedIn. You'll be amazed at how much is in there.

Some Social Media Thoughts

No one integrates social media perfectly -- and you probably shouldn't try or you'll miss out on the important face time. However, there are nuggets out there -- without Twitter and Google Reader, we wouldn't find great articles to share with you. You wouldn't be able to keep up with whatever area of law in which you are most interested. As with anything, it is about balance, which is a never ending battle, but here's some food for thought on how employers might be using social media to find you -- or at least vet you once they've decided they want you.

This Week's Posts

This week's posts included:

• Social Media: Keeping it Secure
• Using LinkedIn to Organize Networking Events
• Being a model adopted employee

Don't forget to check out our Tweets!

Social Media: Keeping it Secure

Have you heard about the Twitter hack escapade of a couple weeks ago? This is one of those stories that should scare you if you use the same password for multiple accounts or don't change passwords very often (yes, we know it is annoying). Why are secure or smart passwords important? What is considered good password habits? Don't let all the work you've done keeping your social media appropriate go down the drain because of a a hacker!

Using LinkedIn to Organize Networking Events

One of the pieces many of us struggle with in networking is finding ways to provide value back to those contacts. Do you have an affinity group for which you would like to help schedule a networking event? Think alumni group, non-profit organizations, neighborhood groups. This blog posting provides some insight on how to tap into your LinkedIn account to do just that -- and you'll probably think of more!