Sams Teach Yourself LinkedIn in 10 Minutes

by Patrice-Anne Rutledge

Sams Teach Yourself Linkedln® in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. Learn everything you need to know to quickly and easily generate solid results on LinkedIn. Tips point out shortcuts and solutions Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls Notes provide additional information Plain English explains new terms and Definitions 10 minutes is all you need to learn how to… Create a LinkedIn profile that generates results Find jobs, consulting opportunities, partners, and clients Enhance your visibility to an audience of millions Promote your services as a LinkedIn service provider Develop a streamlined approach for managing contacts Customize LinkedIn for maximum effectiveness and productivity Use LinkedIn Answers and Groups for research and marketing Extend the power of LinkedIn with third-party applications and tools Give and receive professional recommendations Recruit job candidates Access LinkedIn from mobile devices Advertise on LinkedIn Internet LinkedIn User Beginning Register your book at www.informit.com/sams/register for convenient access to updates and corrections as they become available.

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 17, 2009

About the author

Patrice-Anne Rutledge is a business technology author specializing in social media, online collaboration, and presentation technology.

Her latest books include:

-- Using LinkedIn
-- Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
-- Teach Yourself Basecamp in 10 Minutes
-- The Truth About Profiting from Social Networking
-- The Web-Savvy Writer

Visit her website for book excerpts, tips, videos, and more: http://www.patricerutledge.com.

Reviews

[James · Rating 1 out of 5]

Was looking for a book to boost my online profile. I've had LinkedIn for a few years but I have never made good use of it.

Unfortunately this book is fraught with a few problems. First of all the edition I read (2011) is somewhat dated and the features and structure of LinkedIn has changed a little bit. Second, LinkedIn is fairly intuitive for anyone with a modicum of online experience. It pretty much prompts you to do everything. Third, the title boasts Teach Yourself LinkedIn in 10 Minutes, but the book is 212 pages long. Granted these are not dense pages and I am a fast reader, but so fast that ten minutes does it for me.

The one piece of throwaway advice I took from this book was the author's assertion, "At first glance, LinkedIn appears deceptively simple. It is true power, however, comes from employing strategic best practices of online networking, not on your ability enter your professional data on a form" (4). Unfortunatley this is not a book about the strategy of online networking but on the basic features of LinkedIn. Skip this book and teach yourself in 10 minutes.