LinkedIn

I found an invitation to another community web site in my Inbox today.  Not that I usually don’t accept them, but I’ve started to wonder if I’m gonna see anyone I really (meaning apart from the monitor) know. And I found a few collegues from university, some acquaintaces and a colleague from work. That’s a decent begining.

LinkedIn is a web community created in order to connect professionals. After a very quick registration, you’re offered to create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you.

Among five reasons why you need LinkedIn network, there’s one I didn’t find at any other community web site. Here you can find professionals recommended by your friends. Every user can recommend and be recommended by others. Those with many recommendations must be really good professionals. It’s also possible to find out by whom they were recommended and read the short description of the recommendation itself.

Depending on quantity of useful information I might get from this web site, it will end up on my favorites list, or forgotten like many other interesting, but useless web sites. For now, I’ve decided to give it a chance. 

And for a conclusion, you can find my profile here.

Danas sam u svom Inbox-u pronašla pozivnicu za još jedan od mnogobrojnih community web site-ova. Nije da se inače ne odazivam, ali u posljednje vrijeme počela sam razmišljati kako skoro nikada neću na ovakvim web site-ovima pronaći nekoga koga zaista (što će reći izvan okvira monitora) poznajem. Kad tamo, po prvi put nekoliko kolega s faksa, pokoji poznanik i jedan kolega s posla. To je već početak.

LinkedIn je web zajednica kreirana s ciljem povezivanja profesionalaca.  Nakon vrlo jednostavne registracije, nudi vam se kreiranje profila koji će sumirati vaša profesionalna dostignuća. Vaš profil vam može pomoći da pronađete i budete pronađeni od strane bivših kolega, klijenata i partnera. Možete dodati nove veze pozivanjem ljudi u koje imate povjerenja da vam se pridruže.

Među pet razloga zašto trebate LinkedIn mrežu naveden je jedan koji nisam pronašla na konkurentskim web stranicama. Ovdje, naime, možete pronaći profesionalce koje vaši prijatelji preporučuju. Konkretno, svaki član LinkedIn mreže ima pravo da peporuči i bude preporučen od strane ostalih članova. Onaj ko ima puno preporuka, vjerovatno je dobar u svom poslu, a moguće je saznati i od koga je preporučen te kratak opis same preporuke.

Zavisno od toga koliko će mi korisnih informacija pružiti ovaj site, završiće na listi mojih favorita ili zaboravljen u gomili drugih zanimljivih, ali beskorisnih. Zasad sam se odlučila dati mu šansu.

I, na kraju, moj profil možete pronaći ovdje.