Comments on: Brilliant Use Of Applications On Your LinkedIn Profile

By: Using LinkedIn applications to build your personal brand

Using LinkedIn applications to build your personal brand — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:59:11 +0000

[...] to our earlier posting around using Skideshare, here is a classic Jason Alba blog entry that provides a great idea to share your personal brand / story on LinkedIn: Create a powerpoint [...]

By: LinkedIn Applications - Are they worth it? - Internet Entrepreneurship

LinkedIn Applications - Are they worth it? - Internet Entrepreneurship — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:02:56 +0000

[...] users with different needs, but how can we use the current applications to improve our profiles? Jason Alba suggests a brilliant idea of using a slideshow application. He suggests that we create a slideshow focused just on you. Make the slideshow to compliment [...]

By: Allison Farber Cheston

Allison Farber Cheston — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:17:12 +0000

Jason, regardless of the technology used, this is a great marketing idea that is perfect in a job search context.

When I was looking for a new job in branding (this is in the late ’80s, by the way), I always carried a slide tray in my bag and would take it out at the right moment and present projects I had developed and managed.

It was a great way to showcase my credentials and presentation skills simultaneously, and I should say that I received a very large number of job offers with that technique.

As a career advisor I always counsel people to show as much of themselves doing the job as possible, and this was about the closest thing to it in my case.

By: Yosef Sukenik

Yosef Sukenik — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:12:59 +0000

Thanks for the note. I’ll give it more thought.

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:21:44 +0000

@Yosef – when I say focused on you, I’m referring to not putting slideshare presentations of your most recent vacation, or something personal like that. Do something onbrand for YOU… something that will complement the LI profile… It let’s say you are a hardware engineer… have it be a “visual resume” of sorts (although I’m not a fan of visual resumes in a powerpoint)… something visual that people might be intrigued by.

By: Yosef Sukenik

Yosef Sukenik — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:40:10 +0000

Jason,
I afraid I don’t quite understand what you mean by “focused JUST on YOU”. I’ve seen (and suffered through) so many bad presentations. Bad in my mind is defined as “The speaker must not be redundant re the slides and vice versa.”.
I’m not sure how to get around this.
On the other hand your presentation is very well done.
An example would be helpful to clarify your idea. Feel free to use my profile (http://www.linkedin.com/in/sukenik) as an example.

Thank you for your ideas.
/Yosef

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:43:31 +0000

Ashwan – excellent – thanks for the suggestion (you can tell I am not one to poke around technologies :p).

BTW, I LOVE slideshare

By: Ashwan

Ashwan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:40:28 +0000

“One of the things about the LinkedIn app on SlideShare”

Errr, make that the SlideShare app on LinkedIn. doh!

By: Ashwan

Ashwan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:39:56 +0000

Hey Jason, I’m from SlideShare and one of the guys that worked on the LinkedIn app.

One of the things about the LinkedIn app on SlideShare is that you don’t need to have a SlideShare.net account to use it. Just add the app to your profile and upload your slideshow.

This way you don’t need to create a second account on SlideShare.net. If you later do want to sync them both into one account, you can link the app to your Slideshare.net account and both will be kept in sync until you choose to “delink.”

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:38:36 +0000

@Katie – too many ideas to implement, I know :p

@Melissa – instead of pictures about you, think about pictures to drive your strengths home. Like what I do on my JibberJobber blog… I put pictures to complement the post. If you drive sales, can you find an image about increasing, growing, sales, money, etc. The entire thing could be done without any images of you.

Also, check out my I Just Got Fired slideshow, which as NO images. But it’s still pretty cool (if I don’t say so myself :p)