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Link Me Up!
If you're not using LinkedIn, you're missing out on a great professional networking tool. LinkedIn is similar to Facebook in that it keeps you linked to people you know while making them responsible for keeping up their own information. It makes it easy for you to keep track of people, and it can also create some wonderful networking opportunities with people in your network and your colleagues' networks.
If you're new to LinkedIn, we've set up an article called LinkedIn 101 that should help you get started with LinkedIn and understand it a bit better.
For those of you who are on LinkedIn and not yet part of the "Friends of MMPA" LinkedIn group, we encourage you to join. We have exciting new things happening within our LinkedIn communities and plans for many more. One of the best new features we have is that our LinkedIn group is now supporting subgroups that are topic specific. We have two active communities as of our web launch: Editorial and Circulation & Audience Development. We also have launch plans for seven new communities, including Publication Management, Digital and Web Publishing, Freelance, Advertising, Marketing Support and Events, Publishing Vendors, and Art, Design & Production. Once you join "Friends of the MMPA," you may join as many subgroups as you are interested in.
The subgroups will function as a conversation (part news source, part bulletin board, part forum) among those members who are interested in a specific topic. Want to know if anyone has used a particular piece of software and what they thought? Post a note on the subgroup page that it pertains to. See a great article online that you think people might be interested in? Post a link. The conversations have endless possibilities, and we hope you'll join in and participate.
How do you make sure your subgroup of choice gets launched? Volunteer to be a community leader! The time commitment is minimal (a leader is assigned to be the point person for the group one week per month, posting items of interest a few times that week). So if you would like to see your community launched sooner than later, let us know by filling out a volunteer form.
We can't wait to be Linked to you. Make sure you link to Friends of the MMPA!
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Comments (2)
Beautiful
Posted by Sherry Collins at 9:47 PM (5/19/10)
The new site looks so great!Connecting with Intern
Posted by Aileen Hough at 8:32 PM (5/28/10)
Has anyone had continued success linking up with sources to locate and keep in touch with potential interns? We've found our success by word of mouth, but there has to be a better way?