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If you think LinkedIn is just for job hunting, you’re missing out on the many ways you can take advantage of this social network to build the professional relationships you need to advance in your career. LinkedIn can help you initiate, strengthen, and use the very real human connections that make you effective on the job—and help you get ahead. This short, practical book shows you how.

In Work Smarter with LinkedIn, social media expert Alexandra Samuel demonstrates the most effective ways to actively build and use your network, sharing tips and tricks on:

• Deciding which connection invitations to accept
• Searching for potential connections when you need to establish a new contact
• Using business travel to make the most of face time with colleagues and contacts
• Capturing all the connections you’ve made at a conference
• When not to use LinkedIn

The book also includes a 30-minute quick guide to starting—or perfecting—your LinkedIn profile.

Interested in learning more about how social media can help you get ahead of your daily work—and get ahead in your career? Look for more in this series of short, digital books from Harvard Business Review Press and social media expert Alexandra Samuel. Other installments provide the best tips and tricks for using tools like Evernote, Twitter, HootSuite, and Gmail to get organized and improve your performance on the job.

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67 pages
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English
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Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date

June 25 2013
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192 KB
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DFM4XE4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard Business Review Press (June 25 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 192 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 67 pages

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Alexandra Samuel is an expert on the digital workplace. A speaker, tech strategist and data journalist, she is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Business Review and the CBC. Her long career in tech includes co-founding Social Signal, the world’s first social media agency; leading social media R&D for a major customer intelligence company; founding a social media research center at Emily Carr University; and directing an e-governance research program for a global consortium of public sector leaders. She has led data journalism and social media trainings across the Americas and Europe, as well as through her popular Skillshare course, and is a featured expert on Google’s Digital Wellbeing site. Alexandra holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. Find her latest stories at alexandrasamuel.com or follow her on Twitter as @awsamuel.

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Eric Buchegger

Worthwhile Refresher

Reviewed in Canada on July 2, 2013

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As an avid LinkedIn user, this was definitely a worthwhile read. Some easy to implement tips that will help me better utilize the platform.

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Craig McGill

Not bad but very basic.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 23, 2013

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Handy if just starting out on LinkedIn but others may get more from seeking out Adam Gordon's work as this is really just an expanded 'getting started' book.

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Anonymous

too light

Reviewed in France on January 6, 2014

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i was a bit disappointed as i was expecting more from this book. I thought it would be light, but this was far too light...

John Gibbs

Getting the most out of your networking

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2013

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Unlike Twitter, Facebook, or Google+, LinkedIn is not primarily an online hangout or communications channel; it is more usefully understood as a cross between a dream phone book (one in which you could search people by any combination of company, job title, and keyword) and an atlas of human relationships (mapping who knows whom, worldwide), according to Alexandra Samuel in this short ebook.

But why would you want a fancy phone book and an atlas of human relationships, and how could you go about getting the most benefit from it? To achieve business or personal goals, you often have to enlist the help of people you do not know personally, and you are far more likely to succeed in persuading someone if you can arrange for one of your contacts who knows the person to introduce and recommend you. LinkedIn is a key tool for gaining and maintaining these types of contacts.

Maximising the value of LinkedIn to yourself seems to require a fairly selfish and opportunistic approach. A large network of superficial contacts is fairly useless; the author advocates accepting only contacts who are likely to be useful to you in the future in a business sense, while ignoring and pruning connections with people who might be Facebook friends or Twitter followers but who are unlikely to be useful to your business.

The book includes a guide to getting a LinkedIn account set up in 30 minutes, as well as an interesting chapter on using LinkedIn in combination with TripIt to simplify and maximise the value of your business travel. The book will be of most interest to power networkers, but any professional with find it a good investment of the one hour or so that it takes to read.

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pete parrott

Linkedi Basics

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2013

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It provided me with the basics I needed but I still don't understand the maximum usage of Linked]in. I'm rereading it to gain more knowledge and understanding of how to maximize usage of Linkedin.

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