{"id":1034,"date":"2006-12-06T14:21:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T14:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/linkedin-the-facebook-for-professionals\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:58","slug":"linkedin-the-facebook-for-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/linkedin-the-facebook-for-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn: The Facebook for Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent a few minutes checking in on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/\">LinkedIn web site<\/a> &#8211; sort of a facebook for the working world. I had signed up as a member several months back, but didn&#39;t really &quot;get it&quot;. Then, I saw the company featured this month in both Business 2.0 and T + D magazines, so I took another look.<\/p>\n<p> In a nut shell, you set up a user ID and add your professional profile. You then seek out and link to other registered colleagues and begin creating your professional network of co-workers, clients, etc. The idea is that your professional network can blossom based on the old fashioned &quot;friend of a friend&quot; good word of mouth concept. Through existing and prior professional relationships, you can reach new professional contacts. <\/p>\n<p> Good in theory, right? No clue if it actually works, but the folks at Business 2.0 seem to think it has some merit and the site&#39;s registration has doubled from 4m this time last year to almost 8m now. I searched under &quot;instructional design&quot; and found oodles of contacts in the NYC area. Who knows? It may be work a closer look?<br \/> <!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; text-align: right\">technorati tags:<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/LinkedIn\">LinkedIn<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/social%20network\">social network<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent a few minutes checking in on the LinkedIn web site &#8211; sort of a facebook for the working world. I had signed up as a member several months back, but didn&#39;t really &quot;get it&quot;. Then, I saw the company featured this month in both Business 2.0 and T + D magazines, so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3095,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}