What is LinkedIn?
- A site for professional networking
- Users post resumes, recommend colleagues’ job skills
- Has more than 36 million members
- Organizations create groups to bring together people who want to be associated with their brand
Examples: Uses of LinkedIn
- For Q&A opportunities
- Monitor the competition
- Facilitate networking
- Provide profile information, like statistics, demographics, key links
Examples: UW on LinkedIn
- University of Washington (Seattle, Bothell)
- Foster School
- UW Medicine
- School of Law
- iSchool
- Libraries
- Alumni Group (not run by UWAA)