‘Tis the Season to light-up your online identity…

Want to shine some light on your career?  Light-up your online identity as a holiday gift to yourself. 

• Give those on your business list of connections an invitation to join your network.
• Offer recommendations to those you can wholeheartedly endorse; ask for recommendation, too.
• Take time to review the profiles of those who are in your network:
  • Look at their connections to find people you want to meet;
  • Do your research; ask for off-line introductions

Recruiters and employers are putting your name into "Google." What are they finding?  If the answer is nothing, you should give yourself the gift of online identity. From the Career Management Alliance newsletter, here’s some statistics that may interest you:         

LinkedIn:
–#1 business networking site with 15 million active users
–4 million visitors each month and 35,00 new members daily
–Average user is approximately 39 years old
–Maintains an online resume of each user

MySpace.com:
–Reaches 39% of all adults
–110 million active users, 61 million visitors each month and 270,000 new members daily
–66% of MySpace’s audience consists of people ages 25+

Facebook:
–Fastest-growing demographic in the 25+ age group with 30 million active users
–17 million visitors each month and 150,000 new members daily
–1% of all time spent on the Internet is on Facebook

This post was inspired by Chanukah, the Festival of Lights.  Hope to see you illuminated online soon.

Posted by Karen P. Katz

LinkedIn.com – Webinar available Friday 11/30/07

Please consider signing onto this webinar – best if you can participate live, but still worthwhile if you must listen to it later.  90 minutes with self-made LinkedIn.com guru Jason Alba. 

Jason and I are on the same page on the use of this tool.  While I’ve been using it longer, he is the one who wrote the book: I’m on LinkedIn.com…Now What???   You can also access Jason’s blog and read the comments of others from the sidebar of my blog.

I’ve copied the invitation issued through the program’s sponsor, the Career Management Alliance - just click on the link provided, be prepared to pay $45, and learn a lot about strategies that will help you maintain your career health for years to come… 

If you haven’t done so, check-out my profile on LinkedIn.com: 

Program: I’m on LinkedIn: Now What?

Presenter: Jason Alba, JibberJobber.com

Date: Friday, November 30, 2007 – 3-4 pm Eastern (attend live or listen to the audio recording)

Description:

LinkedIn
has certainly established itself in a class all of its own. And, I know
that many of you already have LinkedIn profiles and networks. Now, ask
yourself … Are you getting value out of your account and your network
relationships, and what can you do to optimize that value? Is LinkedIn
working as an effective sales, marketing and business development tool
for you? Do you know how to find potential partners and clients with
LinkedIn?

During this WEBINAR, Jason will walk you through
various aspects of LinkedIn that will help ensure you feel "up to
speed" with the tools and technologies. In this 90-minute session, you
will learn:

– What’s important on the landing page, when you
login, and how to identify opportunities to enhance relationships with
other individuals.

– How to show lasting appreciation for a
connection by endorsing them, and usually getting an endorsement back
from them for your own profile.

– What settings and preferences you need to know about.

– How to use LinkedIn as a job search strategy/tool (and, alternatively, what’s wrong with it).

–
Three easy things to write your profile that will make a difference in
your online image, along with profile tricks to help you to "be found"
by others.

– How to use answers to get business, find contacts, get competitive intelligence and establish yourself as an expert.

– How to export your contacts, and why you would want to do that.

– How to set up a group, determine if it makes sense for you and figure out which groups you should join (and why!).

Additionally,
there will be discussion about common LinkedIn issues, such as how and
when to accept invitations from others (and what to do with the
notorious IDK button), things you shouldn’t do and more!

Jason Alba is CEO if JibberJobber.com and author of this "hot" book: View this photo

Teleseminar Registration: https://monkey.he.net/~careerma/reg-teleseminar.php