Thanks for the post and a great LinikedIn 101 webinar this morning. Can you point me in the direction of more info about why add a powerpoint about yourself to your LinkedIn profile? I love the idea but am having trouble now explaining exactly why to colleagues!
Cheers from Australia.

Thanks

Kris

Some of my responses:
->Great picture – I love it.
Thanks! I was concerned that this might not be businessy enough.

-> The LinkedIn professional headline is … okay.
Yup changed. — I solve complex IT problems as an architect of information and systems. (Largely at Jason’s suggestion)

-> You need more LinkedIn Recommendations.
Yup. I’m currently soliciting some from people I know well. I may or may not be bribing them with a breakfast burritos as well.

-> You should have more connections.
Well I’m always working on that. It’s hard to compete with Jason’s 500+ connections though.

-> I highlighted the things that stuck out to me as errors in grammar or spelling or formatting…
What Jason isn’t mentioning is what my profile section looked like before he made a suggestion to me. I used to have the top chunk of my resume in this section.. Jason told me this which was extremely helpful:
Jason Alba: i would try and not make a LI profile look like a resume hardly at all.
Jason Alba: imo, the profile is where you tell stories – compelling, 2 – 3 sentence stories about what you bring to the table… not the dry, third person talk you read in a resume.

Thanks for the proofread. Some of this I’ve fixed and some I need to think about. As an entertaining story, having your browser think you’re in British English instead of US English makes for some interesting spellings (colour and centered). I did one one my last rounds of editing in my browser and didn’t pay attention to the corrections.

-> I think he’s still shy of the limit (2,000 characters), which I’d recommend he works towards.
Looks like I’m at around 1,500. I’ll have to brew up one or two more more informative paragraphs.

-> I’ve never seen this before but I really like it – it solves the issue of “how do I talk about different jobs I had at the same company?”
Glad you liked the @see idea. I’ve been wondering for a while if this is helpful or harmful to my linked in.

->I think the ending could be stronger… it’s okay as-is, but I wonder how it could make more of an impression.
I think Jason is soliciting me for another free burrito to help me improve this.

->which of these add value to your branding and overall message
Some unnamed groups have been removed from my list of visible groups

One other thing Jason suggested I add to my profile was a code snippit about contacting me. Here’s what I brewed up:

if(youWantToContactMe())
{
…if(youLikeEmail())
……mailer.email(”linkedin@magicalspirits.net”);
…else if(youLikePhoneCalls())
……phoneDialer.dial(”+18019150629″);
…else
……linkedIn.linkToClint();
}

Again, thanks for the review and tips Jason! This was super helpful. I hope my learning experience can help everyone advance their linkedin as well.

Clint