LinkedIn For Dummies, 5th Edition

Chapter 12

Using LinkedIn with Your Internet Activities

IN THIS CHAPTER

Exporting your LinkedIn contacts to your email program

Exporting your LinkedIn profile to a PDF file

Creating a LinkedIn public profile badge

This chapter delves in to how you can use LinkedIn as part of your overall presence on the Internet, especially when it comes to communication. Specifically, I focus on two aspects of your Internet experience: your email account and your non-LinkedIn Internet activities.

LinkedIn makes exchanging information between your email program and your LinkedIn profile convenient by enabling you to export your LinkedIn contacts list to a variety of email programs, including the Mac OS Mail program. You can also enhance your web browsing experience with specialized LinkedIn functions. You can add a colorful link, called a public profile badge, from other websites back to your LinkedIn profile, and you can capture your profile information into a PDF file for easy offline or online distribution. In this chapter, you see how to use each of these tools effectively.

Exporting LinkedIn Contacts to Your Email Application

As you build up your network, you might end up with more contacts ...