LinkedIn and Delicious 101 Presented by Team Chatter

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LinkedIn and Delicious 101Presented by Team
Chatter
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Objectives

• Learners will
• Describe the purposes and features of LinkedIn
  while displaying proper netiquette
• Brainstorm ways integrate LinkedIn and social
  bookmarking tools into patient education, staff
  education, and nursing education
• Become a LinkedIn user and add contacts and
  connections via various routes
• Understand the use of Delicious in professional
  networking, classroom application, and patient
  education
• Assess the feasibility of utilizing LinkedIn and
  social bookmarking tools in patient, staff, and
  nursing education

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What is LinkedIn ?

• A business oriented social networking site used
  for Professional Networking (Jones, 2008).

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Purpose

• Allows registered users to maintain a list of
  contact details of people (connections) they know
  and trust in business (Jones, 2008).

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Features of LinkedIn and Uses in Nursing

• Building up a contact network
• Find jobs, people, and business opportunities
• List jobs
• Review profiles, find and collaborate with
  professionals to help you meet your goals
• Look for connections to be introduced
• Join alumni or professional groups
• Applications platform
• Limited patient use

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But I am already using Facebook. Or Myspace etc.
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You may use more than one site in fact many do
just that.(Freiart, 2008)
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Tips for LinkedIn Netiquette(Jones, 2008
Shaffer (n.d.))
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1. Create a User Friendly Profile
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2. Invite true friends and acquaintances to
connect
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3. Be honest, polite, and gracious
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4. Dont abuse your network
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Popularity of LinkedIn(Shonefeld, 2009)
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So, lets make some connections on LinkedIn!

• www.LinkedIn.com

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Now just sign in!

• Use the email address and password recently
  created

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Lets take a look at the home page

• Notice the navigation bar on the left, the
  options to build your network, the event
  calendar, and network updates.

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Lets take a look at the home page

• Notice the event calendar, a list of new
  pertinent LinkedIn users, jobs listed

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Uploading Your Resume

• Click Profile on navigation bar
• Import your resume
• Choose file and upload resume

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Lets find possible connections.

• In search bar with Search People selected,
  search for Tami Wyatt. Click on name.

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View Dr. Wyatts Profile

• Is this the Tami Wyatt you had in mind?

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Lets make a contact!

• Click on Add Tami to your network. Select how
  you might know Dr. Wyatt, and select Send
  Invitation.

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Lets add additional connections.

• On the home page under Build Your Network,
  click Find beside Current past colleagues.
  You may then provide the needed information.

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What did the search come up with?

• Current and past colleagues, of course!

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How do I add applications?

• Click Applications located in the navigation
  bar on the left. Applications will be listed.
  Click on the desired application (this is an
  example of SlideShare).

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Easy!
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LinkedIn provides MANY tools to utilize

• Add yourself to groups, such as Sigma Theta Tau
  and get updates
• Applications include anything from information
  about where your contacts are traveling, to
  linking blogs, to sharing presentations, to
  conducting polls
• Remember, netiquette!

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Why use bookmarks in social networks?

• A network is a group of business and professional
  contacts with which you have common interests.
• The internet is a growing resource of information
  for business, teaching, and research.
• Bookmarking is a way of organizing, accessing,
  and sharing information from the internet using
  two broad categories
• Topics of interest
• People (social network)

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Using Bookmarks in Education

• Subscribe to tags (topics) or persons through RSS
  feed to find out what others are using.
• Create a classroom resource or library using a
  specific tag designation (such as N577).
• Create student projects and collaboratively save
  applicable links to build a project library.

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Creating Bookmarks

• Go to Delicious.com and sign up for a free
  account.
• Add Del.icio.us and tag buttons to your
  browser.
• Go to www.youtube.com/watch?vx66lV7GOcNUfeature
  channel
• Tag websites you want to save using keywords or
  tags to organize them.

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Sharing Bookmarks

• Go to delicious homepage.
• Select people, then my network.
• Add people from your network and share your tags
  and bookmarks.
• Explore all tags and bookmarks according to tags
  (topic), popularity, most recent, or
  subscription.

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Screenshot of Del.icio.us