ISLT EdD student Jason Harle is a total LinkedIn Guru.
Here's a post he wrote recently about getting more active on LinkedIn.
Me? I've never fully warmed up to it.
Some part of my brain is still stuck back in early LinkedIn, when it was an online resume space. I had a job, my field doesn't hire that way, it was of little use.
Then came the posts and feeds, and it started to feel like Facebook for work.
I can see the value in posting there, but on some level it's just not me. I tend to shy away from announcing my accomplishments, even though I know I should be shouting them out like seemingly everyone else.
In part after seeing some encouraging posts from Jason and in part because of this class, I decided to post my latest big accomplishment.
I won't lie -- I totally smiled at some of the comments and was delighted to (re)connect every so briefly with a few folks. I'm thinking about what I might want to share in that space next. But I'm still not really comfortable with it.
However, I think it's time to issue myself a LinkedIn challenge. Y'all can help me build it. Some of my ideas include:
- post publications and presentations (but only once per conference for presentations, even if I do multiple)
- post about my upcoming keynotes
- post about my students who successfully defend a dissertation (I did this recently; skipped the other one because they weren't connected to me on LinkedIn for me to tag them)
- Leave at least 3 likes somewhere on there per weekday
And what else? Give me ideas in the comments. (Or tell me to not do this because I don't need to and it will just be one more task on the list. That's possible, too.)
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