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[karavansara]

A visual resume

Here’s something I designed as a lark, but might come handy one of these days…

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Hacking Linkedin - Inbuilt Tools of Linkedin deciphered

All of us use Linkedin each day and by far it is one of the most important sites for business and jobs. Over 100 million professionals across the globe use LinkedIn’s network to exchange information, ideas and opportunities. It is the most important tool for professionals to highlight their profiles to employers, business companies use it to show what they are made of. Linkedin’s popularity is growing, and one of the reasons for this site to grow is the applications provided free of cost.

Linkedin is not just about connections but a carefully crafted structure on Linkedin and usage of the tools make it a very important tool for individuals and business houses as well. To access the Linkedin applications, you need to go to this link [http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=application_directory&trk=hb_side_apps] and below are some of the applications which you will come across.

1. WordPress – Having a blog on WordPress is FREE and nowadays everybody has a blog on which they showcase their talents. It can be anything ranging from a travelogue blog or technology blog or could be just about anything. This application synchs your posts automatically with your LinkedIn profile and also displays your posts, and after you have synced it with Twitter, you can do a posting here and it will reflect on your twitter profile.

2. SlideShare Presentations – Again a very good tool to showcase your presentation. It could either be a individual presentation or a company presentation, this tool allows you to display and share your presentations within the group. If you are a powerpoint guru, then this would be a right place to showcase your presentation skills. If you are a technology company, then this would be the right place to showcase your company prowess.

3. Events – This application shows what events people on your network are attending and helps you find events recommended for you based on your industry and job function. You can also view the most popular events, search for events and create new ones. This application is great for making connections prior to attending a conference, or following up.

4. Google Presentation – This is similar to Slideshare but it is here directly connected to your google account. For this, you dont need to have a new account, you can simply use your gmail login to get inside and create a presentation and then sync the same with your linkedin profile.

5. Company Buzz – This tool is of the most powerful tools to have on your side. It allows you to tap into information stream to find relevant trends and comments about any company including yours. It helps to discover relevant trends and comments about your current employer or a target employer. You can customize and modify the topics to watch, monitor trends and display charts that track activity.

6. Tweets – This application needs not much of an introduction. With this, you can display your most recent tweets on your LinkedIn profile. This tool also gives you instant access to the updates of people you are following on Twitter and the power to tweet, reply, and re-tweet — all from your LinkedIn home page.

7. Polls – An awesome data collecting utility. With this nifty tool, you can raise all your queries and get the experts to answer it for you. Polls can be highly beneficial if you are into the research and opinion section, it tells you a lot of information.

8. Projects and Teamspaces – An awesome collaboration tool especially when you have a team spread across. It can be used for any kind of activity such as software development, event planning and more. And the best part of this, is that you get an unlimited workspace.

9. Reading List by Amazon – With this you know what other people are reading and if you felt like reading any book and wanted to know other people’s opinion, this would help.

10. Portfolio Display – A creative tool used not only by creative people but anybody would benefit from this. The tool will help in presenting creative projects done for past clients or for your personal portfolio. Also can be used to showcase the creative talent to recruiters and professional contacts viewing your profile.

11. Box.net – Box is a simple, scalable and affordable solution to manage documents, media and all the content online. You can Share files as a link and also sync with the desktop.

I have left out a few other apps as i personally haven’t used them but if you have used them, please feel free to comment or drop me a note.