How LinkedIn Helps You Find Answers to Your Questions
The goal of LinkedIn Answers is to allow professionals to exchange expertise. LinkedIn members have a lot of personal and professional experiences to share, so there’s no end to the questions you can pose [more…]
How to Answer a Question on LinkedIn
As you go through LinkedIn Answers, you might see a question you’d love to contribute an answer to, whether it’s to help someone avoid the same mistake you made about something, or a topic you enjoy discussing [more…]
How to Ask a Question on LinkedIn
LinkedIn allows you to post questions to be answered by the community. Your LinkedIn question is available for up to seven days from the time you post your question on the site. You can always reopen your [more…]
How to Post Your Question on LinkedIn Answers
LinkedIn lets you post questions that others, whether they are in your network or not, can answer on LinkedIn Answers. After you prepare a good question you have to post your question on LinkedIn Answers [more…]
How LinkedIn Recommendations Can Help You Professionally
LinkedIn Recommendations can help you find out more about the people you’re considering doing business with. You can also use LinkedIn Recommendations to build your own reputation. Whatever the reasoning [more…]
How to Write Good LinkedIn Recommendations
When you know how to write a good LinkedIn Recommendation, you’re in a better position to help others write good Recommendations for you. And the easiest way to get LinkedIn Recommendations is to give [more…]
How to Create a LinkedIn Recommendation
After you have gone through your list of LinkedIn contacts, and determined who you can recommend without damaging your reputation, you’re ready to write your first LinkedIn Recommendation. To create a [more…]
How to Request a LinkedIn Recommendation
In an ideal world, you’d never request a Recommendation from your LinkedIn Network members and colleagues. Everyone who’s had a positive experience working with you would just automatically post a raving [more…]
How to Set Up a LinkedIn Introduction
LinkedIn lets you introduce colleagues or people with whom you have done business. On LinkedIn, you should do your best to make sure the Introduction process goes smoothly, but don’t worry, there’s not [more…]
How to Send a LinkedIn InMail
If you’re looking to connect with someone on LinkedIn right away and you don’t have an immediate or secondary connection with that person, you can use LinkedIn's InMail feature to send a message directly [more…]
How to Accept and Forward LinkedIn Introduction Requests
If someone in your LinkedIn network is looking for your help to meet someone in your network, you can facilitate the Introduction requests between your LinkedIn first-degree connections. Now that your [more…]
How to Decline a LinkedIn Introduction Request
As a member of LinkedIn, you might receive an Introduction request that you just don’t feel comfortable sending to the recipient. There are any number of reasons why you might want to decline a LinkedIn [more…]
How to Build a Meaningful LinkedIn Network
LinkedIn is different from other social networking sites because it focuses on business networking in a professional manner. The best use of LinkedIn involves building and maintaining a professional network [more…]
How to Find Newly Added Colleagues on LinkedIn
LinkedIn provides a few tools that help you quickly scan the system to see whether a recently joined member is a past colleague or classmate of yours. When you want to search for colleagues [more…]
How to Browse Your LinkedIn Connections’ Networks
Finding connections from your LinkedIn connections is a good way to discover valuable connections. Although LinkedIn can help you search the network, sometimes nothing gives as good results as some good [more…]
How to Remove People from Your LinkedIn Network
You might need to remove someone from your LinkedIn network. Perhaps you added the person in haste, or he repeatedly asks you for favors or Introduction requests, or sends messages that you don’t want [more…]
How to Accept or Decline LinkedIn Invitations
When you receive an Invitation to join someone’s LinkedIn network of connections you can accept it or decline it. Remember to decline LinkedIn invitations gracefully so that you don’t burn your bridges [more…]
How to Send a LinkedIn Connection Request
When you’re on a LinkedIn page and spot the name of a member whom you want to invite to your network, you can follow these steps to send that person a LinkedIn Connection Request to add him to your network [more…]
How to Perform a Reference Search on LinkedIn
One of the benefits of LinkedIn is that you can search for someone who might have worked with someone you’re researching. It's commonly referred to as a reference search. LinkedIn has created the reference [more…]
How to Send a LinkedIn Introduction
You start the LinkedIn introduction process by writing you introductory message. When you’ve prepared your LinkedIn messages (one to your contact and one to the recipient) and you’re all ready to send [more…]
How to Edit or Remove LinkedIn Recommendations
Because relationships change over time, you might want to make changes to your LinkedIn Recommendations. Also, as you get more LinkedIn Recommendations, you might decide that you don’t want to display [more…]
How to Use the LinkedIn Home Page
The LinkedIn home page is, by default, full of information about how you use the site. Think of the home page as your command console for working with LinkedIn. You can get to the home page at any time [more…]
How to Set Your LinkedIn E-mail Notifications
LinkedIn can notify you when network activity occurs. The true power of staying connected, however, is having LinkedIn automatically contact you with the information you need to stay informed. By setting [more…]
How to Use Your LinkedIn Inbox
The best hub for your communications is the LinkedIn Inbox, which you can access by clicking the Inbox link in the top navigation bar. In most cases, you go to the action items [more…]
How to Track Received LinkedIn Invitations
When growing your LinkedIn network, you should be responsive to people who want to add you to their LinkedIn connections lists. These are the people who have sent you LinkedIn invitations. To review your [more…]










