No matter where you are in your career LinkedIn is one social media platform that is always a great idea. Whether you’re still in school, raising kids, a fresh graduate, changing careers, drumming up new business, or maintaining connections, LinkedIn becomes an invaluable resource.
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nk of LinkedIn as your virtual Rolodex and handrail along the corporate ladder.
This social media platform gives you an opportunity to connect with people that you have met at any point in your life. Be it classmates, colleagues, clients, or friends, LinkedIn gives you the ability to showcase your connections as well as build a resource list that you can refer to over your entire career.
LinkedIn May 2014 New Features
*New* for May 2014 LinkedIn offers the “Where you met” feature where you can store notes about:
i) Why you are connecting with this person,
ii) Where you met them, and
iii) if someone introduced you.
These notes are kept private for you and no one else is able to see them.
Reminder Feature
Another *new* component is the “reminder to connect” feature where you can set reminders to follow up with each of your connections. This is a great tool to help you stay top of mind with your connections as well as track your touch points throughout the year.
Lastly the new abilities to write notes and create contact tags (a great way to organize your contacts). All of these new features are extremely useful, helpful, and most of all strategic.
Awesome info graphic put together by Hubspot and LinkedIn
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/6147/LinkedIn-by-the-Numbers-Infographic.aspx
The Balanced Belle 
I didn’t know about some of these functions so thanks!
Absolutely! They are great new features! Thanks for your comment.
I loovee LinkedIn!! I know there are some people that don’t like it because they really don’t know much about it!! Great post very helpful.
Yes lack of awareness and comprehension seems to be platform inhibitors. Thanks for the comment!
This is definitely a platform that I am underutilizing and need to be more involved with.
Absolutely. I’ve just connected with you on LinkedIn Marilyn!
Thanks! I’ll be sure to connect.
Have to agree with Annabelle, had no idea about these new features. I like how we can monitor, update and maintain our connections all under one site. Very useful. Thanks for the post!
I agree, very useful! These features have made LinkedIn the top social media site in my opinion. Thanks for the comment!