3 Ways to Showcase Your Work on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is becoming one of my favorite social networking sites. It’s a great way to keep up with your professional networks — with the launch of LinkedIn Today, the site is also becoming an efficient way of finding great content.

Given that LinkedIn is geared towards professionals, it makes sense to use the site to show off your previous work. By this, I mean any published articles you wrote, journal articles you worked on, interviews where you were featured, etc.

Recently, a Facebook friend asked me for some advice on how to best show off his work on LinkedIn. Here are three ideas I came up with:

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March 27, 2011

Why LinkedIn Today rocks

Earlier this month, LinkedIn announced LinkedIn Today, a new functionality on the site that “delivers the day’s top news, tailored to you based on what your connections and industry peers are reading and sharing”. I first dismissed this as just another way of keeping up with your networks (i.e. another “stream”), but I quickly discovered that it’s more than that.

So how does it work? Basically, it aggregates the most shared links on your network in one page. To quote the official announcement, LinkedIn Today “can help you cut through all the clutter, so you can discover the top headlines you need to read to be better informed everyday”. The links are not curated by editors; they are automatically generated by what your professional networks share.

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