Like many lawyers, you may have a profile on LinkedIn, but do you really know what to do with it? Are you passive when you could be active? Beyond adding connections to your network, do you know what those tabs on your profile page can do?
Learn how to leverage the worlds largest professional network to boost your own practice and profile! This practical webinar will give you strategies for using LinkedIns many proactive features to connect with referral sources, former classmates, former practice colleagues, peers, experts, and others in effective, mutually beneficial ways.
Whether you are a new or long-term user, this webinar will show you how to harness the power of LinkedIn to make lawyers No. 1 social media tool work for you.
After taking this webinar, you will be able to:
- Understand the many ways lawyers use LinkedIn and find the way(s) that work best for you.
- Design and optimize your LinkedIn profile to create a strong professional social media presence.
- Engage LinkedIn in the job search, recruiting, and interviewing process.
- Develop focused, strategic approaches to networking with others on LinkedIn.
- Use powerful advanced features of LinkedIn that many users are not even aware of.
- Boost your professional presence and establish your niche among the 100+ million members of the LinkedIn community.
- And more!
This program is not available for CLE credit.
Michelle Golden is the president of Golden Practices, Inc., and an international consultant advising on marketing and profit-growth strategies in the legal and accounting professions. A frequent speaker, Ms. Golden maintains a blog at GoldenPractices.com (www.goldenpractices.com) and recently authored Social Media Strategies for Professionals and Their Firms: The Guide to Establishing Credibility and Accelerating Relationships (Wiley, 2011). She has helped over 100 firms achieve such results as doubling revenue and improving proposal results, increasing client longevity, and effectively communicating practitioners' differentiations both online and off. www.linkedin.com/in/michellegolden/ or read her tweets at: www.twitter.com/michellegolden/.
Dennis Kennedy is an information technology lawyer, as well as a widely-published author and frequent speaker on legal technology and Internet topics. He writes the technology column for the ABA Journal, co-wrote with Tom Mighell the book, The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools: Smart Ways to Work Together, and co-hosts the highly-regarded legal technology podcast, The Kennedy-Mighell Report, on the Legal Talk Network. His blog (http://denniskennedy.com/blog/) is a highly-regarded resource on technology law and legal technology topics.
Allison C. Shields is the author of the Legal Ease Blog (www.legaleaseconsulting.com) and President of Legal Ease Consulting, Inc., where she coaches lawyers on practice management and business development issues, including alternative fee structures. She is a former practicing lawyer, law firm manager, and administrative partner. A nationally recognized speaker, Ms. Shields presents workshops and programs in both private and public settings. She is also the author of published numerous articles on practice management and business development/marketing issues. Ms. Shieldss website, Lawyer Meltdown (www.LawyerMeltdown.com), provides resources and information for lawyers about managing and building their practices.
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