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Some Twitter Help With a LinkedIn Purpose

I have harped constantly on how you need to make it easy for others to engage and connect with you on LinkedIn. Now with the new twitter link feature you have a simple answer to the rules and regulations of LinkedIn that make it difficult for others to connect with you.

Twitter has no rules about having your personal information on your profile and as you may have noticed many people have backgrounds with all kinds of data, email, phone address, and other links. Creating one of these backgrounds and providing visitors the email address they need to connect on LinkedIn is a great way to help others engage you and connect.

Once you have done this you can simply put in the first line of your summary and contact settings sections of your profile that people click and follow you on Twitter (a bonus) and that they can find your email there to connect on LinkedIn.

Just to make things easy, here are the directions for creating the background on Twitter.

You will need to design a graphic with the data and graphics you want for your Twitter background. Then go into the Account Settings / Design tab in your Twitter account. At the bottom of this page is a button to change the graphic. Use this to upload your graphic.

You may need to mess with the size and design of your background graphic to make it all work the way you wish, but its not terribly difficult if you have some basic Photoshop or other graphics program skills.

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Some Twitter Help With a LinkedIn Purpose - ( 8 Comments » )

peter @ 9:15 am November 18, 2009

I always enjoy reading your blog. Again, you have supplied useful, easy to understand and needed information to the LinkedIn and now Twitter community. Many thanks and please tell us more.

Peter

Todd Pillars @ 1:44 pm November 18, 2009

Thanks for the resource! I’ve only just started using the LinkedIn / Twitter integration (when I remember to use the #in hashtag in my Tweet) and have found it does increase traffic to my Blog.

I especially like how you stress to use a custom Twitter background. I do, however I need to get my contact info into the foreground of the background :)

I appreciate you!
Todd
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Laurent J.V. Dubois @ 5:01 pm November 18, 2009

Great tips!

I’ll be happy to read you also in our forum discussions.

George Carter @ 6:50 pm November 18, 2009

Great tip. Can you refer us to an example of what this looks like?

Thanks,
gc

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Flyn @ 11:00 am November 19, 2009

George, just go to my Twitter page…

Marlene Ryan @ 3:40 am March 17, 2010

Your blog and tips are invaluable to me. Learning to use Linked in is a productive way to move forward. Thank you for all the time and energy that your are extending to help all of us.

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