Mcts windows 7 configuring 70 680 study guideashir82
This document is a study guide for the Windows 7 Configuring 70-680 exam. It includes an introduction, pre-test, and two chapters. Chapter 1 discusses Windows 7 editions, upgrade paths, improvements over Windows Vista like security and manageability features, and hardware requirements. Chapter 2 covers installing Windows 7, including the Windows Preinstallation Environment and tools like BCDBOOT, BCEDIT, and DISKPART. The document is authored by Sean Odom and published by MediaWorks Publishing.
LinkedIn is a powerful social media site for business professionals that exploits the concept of six degrees of separation. It allows users to network, find jobs, and promote themselves and their businesses through creating a professional profile and connecting with colleagues. Users can join groups, write recommendations, and search for jobs or candidates. Regular use of LinkedIn's features can help users expand their network and brand themselves as an expert in their field.
Here are 5 tips to grow your LinkedIn database organically:
1. Find and invite old acquaintances from past jobs, schools, clubs, and organizations.
2. Send connection invites to new contacts met at networking events or through other business interactions.
3. Optimize your profile to appear in LinkedIn search results 20-70 times per day.
4. Import your email address book into LinkedIn to find potential connections.
5. Send mass emails and use the invitation feature to invite people you know to connect on LinkedIn.
This document provides instructions for deploying and configuring a hyperconverged infrastructure using System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Windows Server. It describes recommended and minimal hardware requirements. It then provides detailed procedures for deploying management, network, and storage infrastructure components. This includes deploying Active Directory, Virtual Machine Manager, SQL Server, network logical components, a Scale-Out File Server cluster, and associated prerequisites.
The document provides guidance on optimizing a LinkedIn profile by completing key sections like job title, picture, positions held, summary and specialties, recommendations, and personalized URL. It emphasizes treating your profile like a professional brand and selling yourself to potential connections or recruiters. Status updates can help your profile stay visible to your network. Optional applications can also enrich your profile.
This document provides an overview of how to use Microsoft SharePoint 2016, including accessing SharePoint sites, understanding the interface, creating new sites, managing permissions for sites and users, working with pages and documents, searching content, and connecting to calendars and lists in Outlook. Key functions covered include creating and customizing sites, adding and removing user access, uploading and managing documents, and editing pages. The document is intended to help users learn the basic features and capabilities of SharePoint.
Here are some tips for designing effective LinkedIn invitation messages:
- Keep it short - 2-3 concise sentences is best
- Personalize it by including the recipient's name and referencing any connections you have in common
- Clearly state who you are, your background/experience, and why you're reaching out
- Highlight any value or benefits the recipient would gain from accepting your invitation, such as access to your large network
- Offer to provide assistance or introductions if they accept the connection
- Use a polite, professional tone without being overly familiar
- Proofread carefully for typos or errors
The goal is to help the recipient understand what's in it for them quickly while establishing your credibility
The Conversation Company is a story about boosting your business by investing in company cutlure, people (internal & external) and social media. A Conversation Company optimizes the conversation potential of an organization.
Mcts windows 7 configuring 70 680 study guideashir82
This document is a study guide for the Windows 7 Configuring 70-680 exam. It includes an introduction, pre-test, and two chapters. Chapter 1 discusses Windows 7 editions, upgrade paths, improvements over Windows Vista like security and manageability features, and hardware requirements. Chapter 2 covers installing Windows 7, including the Windows Preinstallation Environment and tools like BCDBOOT, BCEDIT, and DISKPART. The document is authored by Sean Odom and published by MediaWorks Publishing.
LinkedIn is a powerful social media site for business professionals that exploits the concept of six degrees of separation. It allows users to network, find jobs, and promote themselves and their businesses through creating a professional profile and connecting with colleagues. Users can join groups, write recommendations, and search for jobs or candidates. Regular use of LinkedIn's features can help users expand their network and brand themselves as an expert in their field.
Here are 5 tips to grow your LinkedIn database organically:
1. Find and invite old acquaintances from past jobs, schools, clubs, and organizations.
2. Send connection invites to new contacts met at networking events or through other business interactions.
3. Optimize your profile to appear in LinkedIn search results 20-70 times per day.
4. Import your email address book into LinkedIn to find potential connections.
5. Send mass emails and use the invitation feature to invite people you know to connect on LinkedIn.
This document provides instructions for deploying and configuring a hyperconverged infrastructure using System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Windows Server. It describes recommended and minimal hardware requirements. It then provides detailed procedures for deploying management, network, and storage infrastructure components. This includes deploying Active Directory, Virtual Machine Manager, SQL Server, network logical components, a Scale-Out File Server cluster, and associated prerequisites.
The document provides guidance on optimizing a LinkedIn profile by completing key sections like job title, picture, positions held, summary and specialties, recommendations, and personalized URL. It emphasizes treating your profile like a professional brand and selling yourself to potential connections or recruiters. Status updates can help your profile stay visible to your network. Optional applications can also enrich your profile.
This document provides an overview of how to use Microsoft SharePoint 2016, including accessing SharePoint sites, understanding the interface, creating new sites, managing permissions for sites and users, working with pages and documents, searching content, and connecting to calendars and lists in Outlook. Key functions covered include creating and customizing sites, adding and removing user access, uploading and managing documents, and editing pages. The document is intended to help users learn the basic features and capabilities of SharePoint.
Here are some tips for designing effective LinkedIn invitation messages:
- Keep it short - 2-3 concise sentences is best
- Personalize it by including the recipient's name and referencing any connections you have in common
- Clearly state who you are, your background/experience, and why you're reaching out
- Highlight any value or benefits the recipient would gain from accepting your invitation, such as access to your large network
- Offer to provide assistance or introductions if they accept the connection
- Use a polite, professional tone without being overly familiar
- Proofread carefully for typos or errors
The goal is to help the recipient understand what's in it for them quickly while establishing your credibility
The Conversation Company is a story about boosting your business by investing in company cutlure, people (internal & external) and social media. A Conversation Company optimizes the conversation potential of an organization.
This document provides tips on optimizing a LinkedIn profile, including listing learning objectives, describing LinkedIn's benefits, customizing profile sections like the headline and summary, adding keywords to improve search ranking, getting recommendations to strengthen credibility, and integrating LinkedIn with other social media platforms like Twitter. The key takeaways are to optimize profile sections for keywords, customize the public URL, get recommendations from professional contacts, and tweet LinkedIn updates to Twitter followers.
This document discusses managing groups and teams. It provides information on team cohesion, communication, conflict, motivation, inclusion, diversity, and personalities. Specifically, it addresses:
1) The importance of team cohesion and the factors needed to create and maintain cohesion such as team composition, internal environment, and management's role.
2) Potential issues with communication in teams like miscommunication and breakdowns, and tools for planning effective communication.
3) Different types of conflicts teams may face and methods for preventing and resolving conflicts, such as addressing underlying issues.
4) The role of motivation in team dynamics and ways to motivate team members.
5) How to select team members and lead
This document is an introduction to the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1 Handbook. It provides an overview of IBM Cognos BI and its architecture. It also outlines the business scenario and personas that are used in examples throughout the handbook. The handbook is intended to help users understand core features of IBM Cognos BI V10.1, realize the full potential of the product, and learn through practical scenarios.
The future of media and marketing communications: engage consumers! (Steven v...SEMPL
There are three levels of activation: the receipt of the message, spreading of the message and the creation of the information. All three are becoming a necessity for us to understand if we want to co-create the advertising future. Classic advertising models are long gone. Steven Van Belleghem will guide you through data and best practice in order to give you an insight on how to achieve a long-lasting consumer involvement through combining classic and social media.
This document provides guidance on using the professional social networking platform LinkedIn. It discusses what LinkedIn is, how to set up an account and profile, and how to network and engage with others on LinkedIn through answering questions, participating in groups, and connecting with contacts. The document contains step-by-step instructions for setting up a profile, including adding a photo, listing experience, and obtaining recommendations. It also reviews customizing profile links and integrating other social media like Twitter.
This document provides step-by-step instructions for modifying an existing BizTalk orchestration to incorporate trading partner management functionality. The tutorial walks through setting up Business Activity Services (BAS) to enable business users to manage trading partners and business agreements. It then describes defining a business relationship in the orchestration by creating various role links between the orchestration and BAS. This establishes the messaging and interactions between the orchestration and BAS for trading partner management.
The document lists various things one can do in 2009, including practicing a new sport, accepting new challenges, learning another language, making new friends, dreaming, updating one's wardrobe, relaxing after work, and achieving at least one goal for the year.
The document is an SEO report that summarizes the website rankings for 55 keywords and one URL across 3 search engines. It shows that there were 7 listings in the top 5 positions, 35 in the top 10 positions, and 64 total listings in the top 20 positions. The top performing keywords were for US state names followed by "search engine". Most of the high rankings were on the Bing search engine.
This report provides a competitive analysis of Gallun Jewelry's search engine rankings. It analyzed 47 keywords and one URL across 4 search engines over two dates. The report found 162 total listings, with 95 in the first position and 116 in the top 5 positions. It provides detailed ranking data for each keyword and search engine, showing changes in position. In summary, the report analyzes Gallun Jewelry's search engine optimization performance and visibility.
This document is a resume for Stephen C. Murphy, a marketing strategist, designer, and entrepreneur. It summarizes his education, work experience, skills, and contact information. Murphy graduated from the University of Delaware with a B.S. in Business Administration and minors in Marketing and Economics. He has over 9 years of marketing experience, including founding his own marketing consulting firm and currently running the marketing department at his job.
This document provides an overview of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern and the Backbone.js JavaScript library for building web applications using MVC. It discusses how Backbone.js implements the core components of MVC - Models, Collections, Views and Routers. Models contain the data and logic, Collections are ordered sets of models, Views are responsible for rendering HTML/CSS templates, and Routers provide URL routing functionality. The document also provides code examples for defining and using Backbone.js Models, Collections, Views and Routers.
Robert Duncan was a farmer born in Utah who began painting at age eleven. He started painting at a young age and was self-taught as an artist. His paintings focused on landscapes and scenes from rural life.
Closure Compiler is a tool that compiles JavaScript into compact, high-performance JavaScript. It parses JavaScript, analyzes it, removes dead code and rewrites/minimizes what's left. It also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about common JavaScript issues. The document discusses how Closure Compiler can be used to add object-oriented features like classes, private properties, packages/namespaces, inheritance, interfaces, enums, type checking and casting to JavaScript to improve code quality, readability, maintainability and performance. Well-documented code, progressive enhancement, and rigorous development processes are also recommended when using Closure Compiler.
The document outlines a photo shoot plan and the resulting pictures taken. The plan was to photograph a male model from mid-shot level in the main colors of blue and grey to focus on his face. Both a full shot and mid shot were taken to select the most suitable cover image. Three photos were taken keeping the same model and colors. The second photo against a pink background was dull, so a choice was made between the full shot or medium shot. Following the plan, the third photo focusing more on the model rather than his whole body was selected.
The PC encounters Macaver Mor, the Mad King, who has imprisoned a Fae songstress called the Songbird. Macaver is hosting a small party but is clearly unhinged, as he rants about keeping the Songbird caged. The PC attempts to convince Macaver to release the Songbird, but he refuses, enjoying having power over her too much due to his madness.
This document provides tips on optimizing a LinkedIn profile, including listing learning objectives, describing LinkedIn's benefits, customizing profile sections like the headline and summary, adding keywords to improve search ranking, getting recommendations to strengthen credibility, and integrating LinkedIn with other social media platforms like Twitter. The key takeaways are to optimize profile sections for keywords, customize the public URL, get recommendations from professional contacts, and tweet LinkedIn updates to Twitter followers.
This document discusses managing groups and teams. It provides information on team cohesion, communication, conflict, motivation, inclusion, diversity, and personalities. Specifically, it addresses:
1) The importance of team cohesion and the factors needed to create and maintain cohesion such as team composition, internal environment, and management's role.
2) Potential issues with communication in teams like miscommunication and breakdowns, and tools for planning effective communication.
3) Different types of conflicts teams may face and methods for preventing and resolving conflicts, such as addressing underlying issues.
4) The role of motivation in team dynamics and ways to motivate team members.
5) How to select team members and lead
This document is an introduction to the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1 Handbook. It provides an overview of IBM Cognos BI and its architecture. It also outlines the business scenario and personas that are used in examples throughout the handbook. The handbook is intended to help users understand core features of IBM Cognos BI V10.1, realize the full potential of the product, and learn through practical scenarios.
The future of media and marketing communications: engage consumers! (Steven v...SEMPL
There are three levels of activation: the receipt of the message, spreading of the message and the creation of the information. All three are becoming a necessity for us to understand if we want to co-create the advertising future. Classic advertising models are long gone. Steven Van Belleghem will guide you through data and best practice in order to give you an insight on how to achieve a long-lasting consumer involvement through combining classic and social media.
This document provides guidance on using the professional social networking platform LinkedIn. It discusses what LinkedIn is, how to set up an account and profile, and how to network and engage with others on LinkedIn through answering questions, participating in groups, and connecting with contacts. The document contains step-by-step instructions for setting up a profile, including adding a photo, listing experience, and obtaining recommendations. It also reviews customizing profile links and integrating other social media like Twitter.
This document provides step-by-step instructions for modifying an existing BizTalk orchestration to incorporate trading partner management functionality. The tutorial walks through setting up Business Activity Services (BAS) to enable business users to manage trading partners and business agreements. It then describes defining a business relationship in the orchestration by creating various role links between the orchestration and BAS. This establishes the messaging and interactions between the orchestration and BAS for trading partner management.
The document lists various things one can do in 2009, including practicing a new sport, accepting new challenges, learning another language, making new friends, dreaming, updating one's wardrobe, relaxing after work, and achieving at least one goal for the year.
The document is an SEO report that summarizes the website rankings for 55 keywords and one URL across 3 search engines. It shows that there were 7 listings in the top 5 positions, 35 in the top 10 positions, and 64 total listings in the top 20 positions. The top performing keywords were for US state names followed by "search engine". Most of the high rankings were on the Bing search engine.
This report provides a competitive analysis of Gallun Jewelry's search engine rankings. It analyzed 47 keywords and one URL across 4 search engines over two dates. The report found 162 total listings, with 95 in the first position and 116 in the top 5 positions. It provides detailed ranking data for each keyword and search engine, showing changes in position. In summary, the report analyzes Gallun Jewelry's search engine optimization performance and visibility.
This document is a resume for Stephen C. Murphy, a marketing strategist, designer, and entrepreneur. It summarizes his education, work experience, skills, and contact information. Murphy graduated from the University of Delaware with a B.S. in Business Administration and minors in Marketing and Economics. He has over 9 years of marketing experience, including founding his own marketing consulting firm and currently running the marketing department at his job.
This document provides an overview of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern and the Backbone.js JavaScript library for building web applications using MVC. It discusses how Backbone.js implements the core components of MVC - Models, Collections, Views and Routers. Models contain the data and logic, Collections are ordered sets of models, Views are responsible for rendering HTML/CSS templates, and Routers provide URL routing functionality. The document also provides code examples for defining and using Backbone.js Models, Collections, Views and Routers.
Robert Duncan was a farmer born in Utah who began painting at age eleven. He started painting at a young age and was self-taught as an artist. His paintings focused on landscapes and scenes from rural life.
Closure Compiler is a tool that compiles JavaScript into compact, high-performance JavaScript. It parses JavaScript, analyzes it, removes dead code and rewrites/minimizes what's left. It also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about common JavaScript issues. The document discusses how Closure Compiler can be used to add object-oriented features like classes, private properties, packages/namespaces, inheritance, interfaces, enums, type checking and casting to JavaScript to improve code quality, readability, maintainability and performance. Well-documented code, progressive enhancement, and rigorous development processes are also recommended when using Closure Compiler.
The document outlines a photo shoot plan and the resulting pictures taken. The plan was to photograph a male model from mid-shot level in the main colors of blue and grey to focus on his face. Both a full shot and mid shot were taken to select the most suitable cover image. Three photos were taken keeping the same model and colors. The second photo against a pink background was dull, so a choice was made between the full shot or medium shot. Following the plan, the third photo focusing more on the model rather than his whole body was selected.
The PC encounters Macaver Mor, the Mad King, who has imprisoned a Fae songstress called the Songbird. Macaver is hosting a small party but is clearly unhinged, as he rants about keeping the Songbird caged. The PC attempts to convince Macaver to release the Songbird, but he refuses, enjoying having power over her too much due to his madness.
The document summarizes a newspaper called WizKids that is aimed at children between 5-13 years old. It will be launched in South Delhi initially and eventually pan-India. The newspaper will include puzzles, stories, coloring pages, news, and quizzes to promote reading habits, positive values, and thinking skills in children. It is a project started by 10 motivated students and will eventually aim to become the highest selling newspaper for kids in Delhi within 18 months.
The document discusses using social media networking for business purposes. It recommends creating profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and blogs to publish content, share information, and build business relationships online. The key aspects covered include crafting profiles, networking, searching for jobs and companies, engaging in discussions, and using groups and updates to connect with others. The goal is to become an active and valuable member of the social media community to promote business and services.
The document provides a list of life's most important things with brief explanations. It states that the most important things in life are the power of God, prayer, faith, love, and giving. It also lists worry, excuses, gossip, and selfishness as very harmful. The document encourages developing an attitude of gratitude, which can turn what we have into enough. It concludes by saying the future is as bright as God's promises.
This document provides an excerpt from the book "42 Rules for 24-Hour Success on LinkedIn" which discusses establishing clear goals and understanding how to use LinkedIn effectively. The excerpt focuses on answering why someone joined LinkedIn and what goals they have. It notes that for many people, answering why they joined LinkedIn elicits silence, and their goal was simply to sign up after receiving an invitation. However, LinkedIn is a tool that can be used to find and be found by people, communicate, help one's business or career, and more. It stresses that LinkedIn alone is not magic and success requires using it as a connector and conduit with a clear strategy and action plan.
The E Learning Guild’S Handbook Of E Learning StrategyHidayathulla NS
This document is the table of contents for "The eLearning Guild's Handbook of e-Learning Strategy". It provides an overview of the book, which contains chapters written by various authors on developing and implementing an effective e-learning strategy. The document lists the chapter titles and brief descriptions of the topics covered in each chapter, such as keeping the strategy focused, strategies for transitioning to e-learning, design strategies, and elements of a successful strategy. It also acknowledges sponsors and provides information on how to cite and distribute the content.
This document is an introduction to The eLearning Guild's Handbook of e-Learning Strategy. It includes a foreword by Marc Rosenberg emphasizing the importance of developing an e-learning strategy differentiated from tactics, with a long-term view, and defined measures of success. The document then provides information about the authors, table of contents, and sponsored content advertisements. It introduces the handbook as a resource for developing successful e-learning strategies.
This document is an introduction to The eLearning Guild's Handbook of e-Learning Strategy. It includes a foreword discussing the importance of strategy in e-learning and provides an overview of the contents of the handbook, which includes chapters on developing an e-learning strategy, transitioning to e-learning, design strategies, marketing and change management, key elements of a successful strategy, and strategies for learner success. It is intended to help organizations and individuals develop effective e-learning strategies.
This is a presentation that I did for the Fremont Public Library that covers the basics of LinkedIn. I discuss the elements that need to be a priority. The latter portion of the deck shows the LinkedIn mobile app and several unknown features.
The document provides an overview of how LinkedIn can be used for professional networking and job searching. It discusses how companies use LinkedIn to find qualified candidates, both active and passive job seekers. The key benefits of LinkedIn include being able to efficiently search for contacts from current and former jobs, build industry connections, find new career opportunities, and access recommendations. The document then provides tips on creating an optimized LinkedIn profile, engaging with groups, and utilizing the various LinkedIn tools and features to facilitate career development and job searching.
This document provides an overview of The eLearning Guild's Handbook of e-Learning Strategy. It includes a foreword discussing the importance of strategy in e-learning and a table of contents outlining the various chapters in the book. The chapters cover topics such as developing an e-learning strategy, transitioning to e-learning, design strategies, marketing and change management, elements of a successful strategy, and strategies for learners. It also includes sponsored content sections promoting Adobe e-learning solutions.
This document provides tips and techniques for optimizing LinkedIn searches, including:
1) Using Boolean search operators like AND, OR, and NOT to refine LinkedIn search results.
2) Bypassing LinkedIn's limits on the number of connections and search results by searching profiles through Google instead of LinkedIn directly.
3) Using the Google "X-Ray" technique to view full LinkedIn profiles even for 3rd degree connections and return unlimited search results.
This document provides tips and techniques for optimizing LinkedIn searches, including:
1) Using Boolean search operators like AND, OR, and NOT to refine LinkedIn search results.
2) Bypassing LinkedIn's limits on the number of connections and search results by searching profiles through Google instead of LinkedIn directly.
3) Using the Google "X-Ray" technique to view full LinkedIn profiles even for 3rd degree connections and return unlimited search results.
RE:WORK IV: Social Media Tips for the Modern Work WorldKimberly Carroll
The document provides tips for using social media effectively in the modern job market. It notes that 92% of companies now use social media for recruiting and many dismiss candidates based on their online profiles. The quick-start action plan recommends creating a LinkedIn profile as a base, and also establishing a blog, Twitter, and Pinterest account to demonstrate expertise and increase findability. It emphasizes creating value by sharing unique perspectives online and building networks on social platforms.
This is the deck I presented to the St. Joseph Employment Ministry group in Libertyville, IL on Wednesday, July 10th. I discussed best practices and covered several #LinkedIn mobile app features.
Proven strategies I used to grow my LinkedIn connections to +10k within 4 months. Learn how to better use Big Email Data and analytics to solve your LinkedIn growth hacking challenges in 2017. You’ll discover how to use LinkedIn and Big Email Databases to understand your local and global customers, identify high-potential prospects, and get fresh findings on how to use Geodemographic data you already have to grow your LinkedIn Connections and business prospects.
Topics covered: Data Science, Analytics, Geodemograpics Data Mining, Profile Page Optimization, Social Selling & Much More.
LinkedIn for Business Insights is a resource that is part of module one of the LinkedIn Insider online training course.
Visit www.linkedinsider.com.au to find out more information about the world's top LinkedIn training course for sales professionals and business owners.
Be You. Be Active. Personal branding - Leeds Internship AcceleratorMatt Duncan
The document provides guidance on developing a personal brand and using LinkedIn for career development. It discusses the importance of self-reflection and intentionality in crafting one's professional story online and offline. Students are encouraged to develop personal branding statements and publish relevant content on LinkedIn to showcase their skills and experiences to potential employers. Key resources like LinkedIn Learning and the LinkedIn economic graph are also highlighted.
Entrepreneurs participating in Gvahim's 2nd Incubator program: How can entrepreneurs leverage LinkedIn? Presented by Daniel Alfon in September 2012 [aka "A monkey in a suit is still a monkey"]ץ
To learn more about TheHive's accelerator program, led by Cynthia Phytoussi and Audrey Chocron, check the video after the last slide
The document provides tips and strategies for effectively using LinkedIn for professional networking. It outlines how to use LinkedIn to find clients, jobs, experts, and make professional connections. The summary highlights using LinkedIn to build your professional network and personal brand, find new opportunities, and maximize the site's features to professionally promote yourself.
This document provides an excerpt from the book "A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization" which discusses social bookmarking and crowd-sourcing. It defines social bookmarking as a way to publicly save favorite websites and blogs. It provides examples of how social bookmarking sites like Delicious work and how they leverage "folksonomy" or user-generated tagging. The chapter recommends getting accounts with social bookmarking sites like Delicious, developing descriptive tags and notes, and searching sites based on those tags to expand reach.
Book excerpt from A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization: Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Succeeding in the Social Web by Deltina Hay. This book is a hands-on guide to building an optimized presence in the Social Web.
Learn about the basics for creating a professional profile and utilizing the tremendous amount of information on LinkedIn. Topics include an overview of LinkedIn and its general usage, building your network of connections, identifying LinkedIn Groups to join, and searching individuals, companies, and jobs. Learn about creating a job search agent and the options for job applications using LinkedIn. Additionally, discover the best practices or activities for getting the most out of LinkedIn.
2. The Power Formula for
LinkedIn
Success
Kick-start Your Business,
Brand, and Job Search
Wayne Breitbarth
3. Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
I Never Even Wanted to Be on LinkedIn!
Chapter 1 A New Way to
Look at Social Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The LinkedIn Power Formula
Your Unique Experience
Your Unique Relationships
The Tool
Chapter 2 The Million-Cubicle Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
LinkedIn—Making the Invisible Visible
Chapter 3 Where’s the Beef? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The LinkedIn Profile: Basics
Chapter 4 Your 30-Second Bumper Sticker . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
The LinkedIn Profile: Personal Identification Box
Your Name
Your Photograph
Your Headline
Your Location and Industry
4. viii • The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success
Chapter 5 Resume on Steroids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
The LinkedIn Profile: Experience Section
Chapter 6 Aren’t You Any Good? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
The LinkedIn Profile: Recommendations
How Many Recommendations Should I Have?
What Should My Recommendations Say?
Why Are Recommendations So Important?
Tips for Getting Recommendations
Chapter 7 Hyperlinks to Hot Leads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
The LinkedIn Profile: Additional Top Box Items
Education
Websites
Public Profile URL
Chapter 8 That’s My Boy! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
The LinkedIn Profile: Summary
and Specialties Sections
The Summary Section
Specialties
Chapter 9 Not Your Average Joe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
The LinkedIn Profile: Must-Have Applications
and Tools
Box.net Files
Google Presentation / SlideShare
Amazon’s Reading List
Events
Giving (and Getting) Answers
Chapter 10 Who Do You Want to Find? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Searching on LinkedIn
Saved Searches
5. Contents • ix
Chapter 11 I Found You—Now What Do
I Do with You? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Contacting the Person You Just Found
The Introduction Function
Chapter 12 There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Expanding Your Network
Importing Contacts
Connecting with Colleagues
Connecting with Classmates
The Outlook Toolbar
“People You May Know”
Accepting or Declining Connection Requests
Connecting with Competitors
Monitoring Your Growing Network
Tags
“Who’s Viewed My Profile?”
Chapter 13 Keywords Are King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Maximizing Your Ability to Find and
Be Found by Others
Exact Phrases
The “And” Function
The “Or” Function
The “Not” Function
Keyword Optimizing Your Profile
Chapter 14 How Do Companies Fit into the LinkedIn
Landscape? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Researching Companies on LinkedIn and Other
Company-Related Matters
Social Media Policies and Procedures
Chapter 15 Revving Up Your LinkedIn Efforts by Joining
Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
The Power of LinkedIn Groups
6. x • The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success
Chapter 16 Show Me the Money! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
What Are the Power Users
Doing on LinkedIn?
Chapter 17 Your Account, Your Settings—Your Way . . . . . 129
Setting Your Preferences and Using the
LinkedIn Help Centers
Paid vs. Free Accounts
LinkedIn Learning Center and Customer Service Center
Chapter 18 A Job Seeker’s New Best Friend . . . . . . . . . . . 135
LinkedIn—The World’s Largest Internet-Based
Resume Database
Chapter 19 Ready . . . Set . . . Go! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
A Six-Week, Two-Hour-per-Week Road Map
to Results
Weeks 1-6
Managing Your Time on LinkedIn
Chapter 20 Conclusion (Or Is It Just the Beginning?) . . . . 153
Which Camp Are You In?
Bonus My Kids Are Already on Facebook—
Chapter Can’t They Find a Job There? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Why College Students Need to Be on LinkedIn
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Index ���������� . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
7. C h apt e r 1 2
There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills
Expanding Your Network
As you can tell from previous chapters, the winner of the searching
aspect of the LinkedIn game is the person who has a lot of con-
nections. However, please continue to keep in mind my recom-
mendation that you only add to your network people whom you
know and trust, because when you add a new contact, you put
your extremely valuable network in his or her hands. Remember,
it is your network. It is a possession you have worked your entire
career to build, and when you add a connection on LinkedIn, it is
like handing your Outlook database to that individual and trust-
ing him to treat it professionally as you would treat his.
I recommend you have an ultimate goal of acquiring at least
200 to 250 connections (muskie size), as opposed to the 20 or
30 connections (minnow size) that the vast majority of LinkedIn
users acquire. If you want your searches to be useful, you really
want to consistently add connections. This chapter will show you
8. 88 • The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success
how to find new people to add, accept or decline the requests
you’ll get, and gather interesting information about your expand-
ing base of contacts. Once you’ve built your muskie-sized net,
when you go fishing, you’ll be sure to come up with lots of poten-
tially valuable connections.
The most common way to add connections is one at a time.
You do this by clicking “Add Connections” on the top toolbar (see
Figure 12.1). All you need is the person’s e-mail address, and then
you can use LinkedIn’s standard invitation to invite your friend or
colleague to join your network
The preferable way, however, to add a person to your network
is to search for her by name and then click “Add [her name] to
your network” at the top right corner of her profile. Once you
make this selection, you must then tell LinkedIn and the per-
son how you know her by selecting one of the options LinkedIn
shows you: colleague, classmate, etc. I prefer this method of add-
ing connections rather than the option mentioned in the previous
paragraph because it allows you to enter a short personal note
explaining why it would be beneficial for the person to allow you
to be part of her network. In my opinion, the standard “I’d like
to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn” is very lame.
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Remember, you are adding this person to your group of trusted
professionals. Therefore, you should add a personal touch to your
invitation. Customizing the connection request will get you a
much higher response rate.
Now I am going to show you how to add a lot of connections
at the same time. Even if you’re starting out with no contacts, you
should be able to get to 50 or 60 connections within three or four
days by following the four steps that follow. If you currently have 30
or 40 connections and follow these steps, you should get to over 100.
Importing Contacts
The first step is to import contacts (see Figure 12.2). Click “Con-
tacts” on the top toolbar. Then select “Imported Contacts.” At
that point LinkedIn will be searching your entire database for
contacts. It searches Outlook by default, but it can do any other
database or e-mail account, including ACT, GoldMine, Yahoo,
Gmail, or even a simple Excel file with name and e-mail. LinkedIn
will sift through the entries in your database, looking for e-mail
addresses that match those of people who are on LinkedIn. When
Figure 12.2: Press the button and relax while LinkedIn finds
connections for you.
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it’s done searching, you will see the screen shown in Figure 12.3.
What you’re looking for is the little blue square that says “in.”
That icon indicates the contacts in your database who are already
on LinkedIn. What do you think the odds are that they will want
to connect with you once you send them an invitation? Probably
close to 100 percent.
Check the boxes next to the names of the contacts you want
to connect with and click the button labeled “Invite selected con-
tacts.” This will send a group invitation to the people you have
selected, and you will have to be fairly creative in crafting your
personalized message, since it is going to many different people.
You could do something like this:
Hi. I just read a great book by Wayne Breitbarth on LinkedIn,
and I finally understand how powerful this thing is. I would love
to have you join my network.
—John Doe
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Connecting with Colleagues
The second step to building your network is adding colleagues.
Click “Add Connections” on the top right toolbar, and then click on
“Colleagues” (see Figure 12.4). LinkedIn will then take all the jobs
you have included in your profile and create a comprehensive list
of the people on LinkedIn who were employed at those companies
during your tenure (another benefit to listing all jobs you have had).
If you perform this same search at a later time, the list will include
only people who have been added since the last time you searched.
Figure 12.4: Past and present colleagues can be extremely valuable
connections.
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way to find people who already know on LinkedIn. Learn More each address by a comma.
Email:
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Connecting with Classmates
The third step, connection with classmates, is fun—it will feel like
you’re on Facebook. Click “Classmates” (see Figure 12.5). Select a
school and the years you attended that school, and LinkedIn will
give you a list of all the people who said they attended this school
during the years you indicated. You will probably get quite a large
number of potential connections, but if you say to yourself, Well,
that’s too many; that’s going to take me too long to review, then I guess
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you don’t really understand why you are even on LinkedIn. Rather
than viewing this process as a hassle, treat your search for valuable
connections as if you were hunting treasure—tell yourself, There’s
gold in them thar hills. Your classmates present a tremendous oppor-
tunity to make some important connections. These are people who
will remember you from your college days, and you will now be able
to tell them what you are up to today. Reconnecting with old friends
is fun, but it can also be very productive; some of your old drinking
buddies may now be presidents of the companies with which you
are trying to do business. Many others will likely have nice databases
of Number 1 connections, which could lead to great connections at
the second or third level for you. You just never know.
Figure 12.5: Connecting with a classmate may lead to that million-
cubicle deal.
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See Who You Already Know on LinkedIn Enter Email Addresses
Searching your email contacts (hotmail.com, gmail.com, yahoo.com aol.com) is the easiest Enter email addresses of people to
way to find people who already know on LinkedIn. Learn More each address by a comma.
Email:
Password:
The Outlook Toolbar
The fourth step is downloading the Outlook toolbar, which you
can get by clicking on “Tools” at the bottom of any LinkedIn
page. Click “Download it now” in the Outlook Toolbar box (see
Figure 12.6). This will download a piece of software to your com-
puter, which, going forward, will search all the e-mails you receive
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for contacts who are in the LinkedIn database. The program will
also tell you when people you have in your Outlook database join
LinkedIn. In addition, when you are writing an e-mail to a new
contact in Outlook, a pop-up box will tell you whether the recipi-
ent is a LinkedIn member and how many connections he cur-
rently has—and it will give you the option to add the person as a
LinkedIn connection.
Figure 12.6: The Outlook Toolbar—your virtual assistant—looks for
potential connections 24/7.
“People You May Know”
On your LinkedIn home page, you’ll see a box on the right labeled
“People You May Know” (see Figure 12.7). LinkedIn has a special
formula for putting people in this section, and although they have
not revealed how it works, you will be amazed at the names you
find here. From my observation, these people typically fall into
one or more of the following categories:
• They are connected to someone in your network.
• They attended a school that you also attended.
• They are a member of a group to which you belong.
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Figure 12.7: LinkedIn helps you find new connections.
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You will find these suggestions not only useful but also some-
what entertaining. LinkedIn has helped me find a number of
guys I used to drink dime taps (10¢ beers) with during my col-
lege days! Do not overlook the usefulness of this feature in find-
ing new connections.
Accepting or Declining
Connection Requests
People frequently ask me what they should do when somebody
they don’t know invites them to connect on LinkedIn. This will
begin to happen with greater frequency as you become more active
on LinkedIn, especially if you decide to join larger groups. Some
people assume that because you are members of the same group,
you will want to connect with them on the first-degree level.
When you receive an invitation from someone, you will see
the screen in Figure 12.8. Let’s go through the six options you
have when responding to an invitation:
Accept. The person will immediately become a first-degree
1.
connection.
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Reply. People often overlook the option of using the Reply
2.
feature. If you hit the Reply arrow, you can send a com-
munication to the requesting individual without allowing
him to become part of your network. If I have had an inter-
esting meeting with a person and we belong to the same
group or club, I can send a message saying something like,
“At the next meeting, let’s make sure we connect and get to
know each other better so we can join each other’s Linked-
In networks.”
Delete. The invitation will be moved to the trash.
3.
Archive. The invitation will be stored in your archive file,
4.
which gives you the ability to reconsider accepting the
invitation at a later time. I use the archive function quite
often, but there is one thing I do before I archive some-
one’s invitation: I look at his profile and see whether he is
somebody I should at least consider having a meeting with.
Remember, this person found you, so he is probably inter-
ested in building a business relationship with you. Look
at his profile to see if there is something interesting there
before you put his invitation in your archive file, where you
may forget about it entirely.
Figure 12.8: Consider all of your options when responding to an invitation.
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Ignore. The invitation will be put into the archive file and
5.
marked “Ignore.” Before deciding to ignore an invitation,
follow the same procedure that I suggested for archiving
invitations: Check out the person’s profile to determine
whether there might be a reason to meet him or her. After
selecting “Ignore,” you will have two additional options—
“I don’t know them” or “Report as spam.” This allows you
to report to LinkedIn that this individual might not be
using LinkedIn appropriately.
Forward. If you wish to make an inquiry concerning this
6.
person before you decide whether to accept his or her invi-
tation, you can forward the invitation to any of your first-
level connections who might possess useful information.
Connecting with Competitors
One question that comes up quite frequently is, “Would you let
competitors be connected to you at the first level?” My immedi-
ate response is “No!” It does not make good business sense to
allow your competitors to have a list of the people who are most
important to you. You are basically handing them your Outlook
database. There are, however, certain industries in which your
competitors may also be your suppliers or vendors, and you will
need to weigh the risk and reward of allowing those individuals to
be part of your network.
One of the few times I used the “I don’t know them” option
was when one of my direct competitors, whom I had never met,
attempted to connect with me on LinkedIn. There was no way
I was going to give her access to the network I have worked so
hard to develop over the course of my lifetime. So I promptly
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told LinkedIn I don’t know her. Something tells me she was not
surprised by my response.
Monitoring Your Growing Network
Once you’ve started to build your LinkedIn network, you can
easily keep track of the number of new people added to your
network since a certain date. Select “Contacts” on the top tool-
bar and then “Network Statistics” to view information about
your total number of connections (see Figure 12.9). You will be
amazed at how quickly you continue to add people to your net-
work, not only at the first level but also at the second and third
levels. You will find a summary of this information on the right
side of your home page. I typically pick up about 8,500 people
per day. Although I am not aware of the names of these people
or who in my network has connected with them, I do know I
am 8,500 people closer to finding that million-cubicle job than
I was yesterday. Even when I am at the beach or hiking in the
Rocky Mountains, I am adding about 8,500 people per day to
my network. Now doesn’t that bring new meaning to the word
vacation! And there is no question in my mind that one day these
connections will pay off in a big way.
Figure 12.9: You will be amazed by how quickly your network grows.
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Tags
Once you’ve got all these connections, you’ll want to use tags to
sort them for easy reference. LinkedIn defines tags as “simple key-
words that you can create to organize your connections for quick
filtering on LinkedIn.” To use this feature, go to “Contacts” on the
top toolbar, then click “My Connections,” and then click “Tags.”
Once you have tagged all of your connections that fall into a par-
ticular category, LinkedIn will create a list of those connections.
Examples of tags that I have found useful include “bankers,”
“insurance agents,” and “customers.” As you spend time using this
feature, you will find more ways to use tags to help you organize
your network, which can save you time when you need to locate
or contact a particular person or group within your network.
“Who’s Viewed My Profile?”
LinkedIn also allows users to see how many people are looking at
their profile with the “Who’s Viewed My Profile?” feature, which
you’ll find in the column on the right side of the LinkedIn home
page (see Figure 12.10). This is an interesting box to click on from
time to time, but don’t expect to see the name of the person who
looked at your profile. You may instead see any of the follow-
ing information about the person: job title, type of company or
industry, company name, or location. From this information, you
can sometimes guess who viewed your profile and perhaps may be
interested in meeting you.
The “Who’s Viewed My Profile?” section can also help you
identify whether you are increasing your activity and presence on
LinkedIn; it will display information like “Your profile has been
viewed by 22 people in the last 3 days. Yesterday, you appeared
in search results 7 times.” As with all networking, increasing your
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activity has the potential to increase relationships, which may lead
to increased business.
Figure 12.10: More looks at your profile should create more business
opportunities.
Who’s Viewed My Profile?
21 Your profile has been viewed by 21 people in the
past 3 days.
29 You have shown up in search results 29 times in the
past 3 days.
Taking advantage of the features explained in this chapter
will enable you to quickly add a large number of connections.
You’ll be on your way to building that big muskie net, so that
when you search for new contacts, you will have plenty of people
to choose from.
Applying the Power Formula
• aking connections using the steps outlined in this chapter
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may take you six to eight hours to complete, but it’s well
worth the effort. Every one of your unique relationships
gives you lots of Number 2’s and 3’s, and any of them could
be the person you want to meet.
• hese steps work more effectively when you have thoroughly
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outlined your unique experience in the Experience and
Education sections. If you fail to list a job or an educational
experience, you will miss out on potential credibility as well
as the opportunity to make valuable connections with people
you met while gaining that unique experience.
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