Slides following my training session on Linked In.

1. Get Connected Sue Davis

2. Who do you know? Sue Davis Just enter email addresses Direct search of your email for yahoo, googlemail, hotmail, msn – etc. Otherwise import contacts

3. Linked In makes suggestions Based on your existing connections

4. Not just people you know

5. 2nd and 3rd level connections

6. Can’t access everyone though! (Some people don’t have real accounts.)

7. People (targets?) you don’t know If you don’t share a group you could always join one they belong to.

8. …sometimes it works!

10. Others may ask you about them and vice versa

11. You will get updates on their activity

12. Linked in lets you invite colleagues, classmates, friends and business partners without entering their email addresses.

15. But.. Are they harvesting email addresses?

16. They can still “I don’t know you”

18. Reply You could reply (drop down from Accept option). … or report as Spam if the invite is written that way.

19. Ignore Invite is moved to archive without accepting. You can view it later if you get to know the person. The other person won’t know you have ignored so may try to connect with you again, but you won’t get the reminder to say you haven’t responded yet. If you then click on “I don’t know (name)” that person is prevented from sending you further invites. It also flags to Linked in that they may need to restrict, suspend or close a users account