Get started with LinkedIn

Amy Chamier, Web Editor

About this workshop

1. Presentation (30 mins)• Learn the basics• Set up an account

2. Practice session (30 mins)• Practice using your account• Get 1-2-1 help

How to use LinkedIn

1. Learn as you go

2. Visit the Help Centre

Social media guidelines

1. Personal safety• don’t reveal personal details (eg date of birth, home address)

2. Ownership• you own your account (but IOE owns groups set up on its behalf)

3. Your behaviour• the same rules apply to the virtual world

Set up your account

1. Go to homepage and enter your details in “Join Linked Today”

2. Enter your details in the “start creating your professional profile” box

3. Skip this step

4. Access your confirmation email and activate your account

5. Skip this step

6. Choose the Basic version

7. Skip this step and click on “Profile” in the top menu bar

Complete your profile

1. Edit your basic information

2. Edit your public profile

3. Understand recommendations

4. Edit additional information

5. Omit personal information

6. Edit contact preferences

Visit your home page

1. Import email contacts box (don’t import contacts from ioe.ac.uk)

2. Sharing box (don’t spam your contacts)

3. Update feed

4. People you may know box

5. Who’s viewed your profile box

Add a connection

1. View your list of connections

2. View your imported connections

3. Click on “Add Connections” > “Colleagues” > “Institute of Education”

4. Send me an invitation to connect to you

5. Understand the different types of contact

6. Search for an expert

Find out about groups

1. List of your groups

2. What a group looks like

3. The role of the owner

4. IOE groups

Look in your Inbox

1. For private messages and invitations to connect

2. You can restrict who communicates with you

3. You can only communicate directly with your connections, unless you upgrade to a paid-for version of LinkedIn

Check your settings

1. Profile

2. Email Preferences

3. Groups, Companies & Applications

4. Account

Assess your success

1. Decide on your success criteria:• job leads, consultancy leads, useful information, profile views, traffic to website• number of group members, level of group activity

2. Use LinkedIn statistics features:• individual profile data (need to upgrade to paid-for version)• group data (free is ok)

Questions?

Amy Chamier, Web Editor