Updating Your LinkedIn Profile

Spurred on by Joan Stewart's excellent weekly Publicity Hound ezine (see link below), I decided to do a little publicity work for myself.

I revisited LinkedIn to see what is new and how I could improve my LinkedIn profile.

First, I finally took the advice of my business partner Yael K. Miller to add my past positions. Previously I thought these positions did not have much to do with our social media marketing consulting company.

But I also took Yael's advice to locate an old resume to help with adding the info to my LinkedIn profile. And do you know what I discovered?

A great deal of my past experience does relate directly to the social media marketing consulting we do with clients. (See www.linkedin.com/in/phylliszimblermiller )

If you've been like me – dragging your feet about adding your past positions – pick up those feet now and add the information.

And here is a LinkedIn profile feature with an interesting concept:



You can now send an email message to a first-level connection suggesting the person update his or her profile.

The prompt to do this is underneath the profile box of a person with whom you are a first-level connection you will see this prompt: Suggest a profile update for [first name of connection].

Or this prompt: Help [first name] by suggesting a profile update.



If you click on the prompt, you'll get a choice of "Section" – Experience, Education, Other



Then you'll get this email message already written:



Hi [first name],

Keeping your profile up-to-date can help people find you on LinkedIn. Here's a suggestion.

[your first name]



Question: What do you think of this LinkedIn feature? Do you think that our first-level connections want us to give them unsolicited advice? (Share your opinion in the comments section below.)

Even when I want to give a private Twitter bio tip to someone, I usually first DM asking permission to share the tip. I personally don't plan to use this feature unless I use it only to ask permission to share the suggestion.

And now to help spur your publicity juices, get Joan's weekly Publicity Hound ezine. (FYI – This is not an affiliate link but it is an endorsement. I read Joan's ezine faithfully each week.)

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