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July 07, 2008

Get LinkedIn with Emerge Lakeland

Are you LinkedIn? Joining LinkedIn is easy and now you can join Emerge Lakeland's LinkedIn Group and connect to other Emerge Lakeland Members. Click or paste the following the link in your web browser to join: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/115974/4DC9803702F5

Don't know what LinkedIn is? LinkedIn is a business oriented social networking site. The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connection.
Becoming connected is fast and easy but requires either a preexisting relationship or the intervention of a contact of theirs.

This list of connections can then be used in a number of ways:

* A contact network is built up consisting of their direct connections, the connections of each of their connections (termed second degree connections) and also the connections of second degree connections (termed third degree connections). This can be used to gain an introduction to someone you wish to know through a mutual, trusted contact.
* It can then be used to find jobs, people and business opportunities recommended by someone in one's contact network.
* Employers can list jobs and search for potential candidates.
* Job seekers can review the profile of hiring managers and discover which of their existing contacts can introduce them.

Posted by Michael Wiener at July 7, 2008 08:56 AM

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