Making Your LinkedIn Profile Public
As Jeff Barr, Lead Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, just noticed, one of the cool features LinkedIn has added recently is the ability to make your LinkedIn profile not only accessible to the public, but also to make an easy-to-remember unique URL (linkedin.com/in/scottallen vs. linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=2369). Here’s an illustrated step-by-step how-to:
- Go to My Profile:
- Go to Edit My Public Profile:
- Edit your public profile URL:
- Choose an easy-to-remember URL:
Your name is probably the best choice (I got lucky and was the first one to claim mine - there are at least 50 other Scott Allens in LinkedIn!). If that’s not available, try a combination of your name and company name, or your name and your title or line of work. Don’t use something wacky - remember this is a professionally-oriented site. - Now choose which portions of your profile you want to make public:
I’m honestly not sure why you would want to hide any of this unless you’re a very private person, in which case I don’t know why you’d be making your profile public anyway, but the options are there if you so choose. - Save the changes and optionally preview your profile as it will appear to others:
You’re done! Now you can easily include your LinkedIn profile - a dynamic resume/portfolio - in your resume, your email signature, or wherever else you think it’s appropriate.
January 21st, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Hi Scott,
Thanks for your article on a public profile. I would be happy to link with you if you would like to send me an invitation.
Clive Hartnett
ASSOB Gold Coast Qld
Australia
January 21st, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Clive (and anyone else reading):
I’m a truly “open” networker in the sense that I’m open to hearing from just about anyone, getting to know each other and finding out how we might be of service to each other, i.e., building an actual relationship.
However…
As I say in the top right corner of every page next to the link to my profile:
That’s based on my own experience as well as LinkedIn’s recommendations about who to connect with:
For more on my thoughts on this, see The Connection that Wasn’t There.
If you’d like to e-mail me, though, I’d love to hear from you at Scott At Linked Intelligence Dot Com.
February 10th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Excellent, Scott!
Good to have an illustrated version explaining Linkedin’s public profiles.
I’ll share it with some of my friends.
Thanks!
Vincent
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:19 am
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