2013 PROMO: Social media for professionals in virtual worlds: Linkedin

Social media for professionals in virtual worlds:  
Linkedin
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Social Networking

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Linkedin is for professionals to network. If you are doing professional things in virtual worlds, you may want to use it to promote your work.  

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Professional things done by people in Virtual Worlds

• Building, scripting, etc. 
• Fashion:  clothes, avatars
• Art and photography
• Education
• Video creation
• Writing, blogging
• Musical performances, music videos, music tracks
• Marketing 
• Business and management

You can:

• see what other professionals are doing.
• claim your skills .
• get other professionals to endorse your claim.
• contact other professionals doing work related to yours.
• see jobs that you might want to apply for.
• promote your blog or other professional activities.
• find professional groups that fit your interests.
• I have found at least 200 people from virtual worlds there.

Here is the web link: Linkedin
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Suggestions: 

• Use your legal name.  This is for real business.
• Show your connections to virtual worlds
• Show the name(s) you use in virtual worlds. 
• In virtual worlds, show your legal name in your display name
• Join professional groups with interests in virtual worlds.
• Look in those groups for other people you know. 
• Post about your professional activities only. 
• Post as often as you have significant news.
• Give out your legal name to your friends so they can find you.
• Get legal names from your friends so you can find them.
• If you think you know someone, see if you know people in their contacts list.
• Endorse people only for skills you know they have.  
• Look for ways to show your skills in the outworld, not just the inworld.
• I am Selby Evans in Linkedin.   Connect with me if you want.
• I will probably need your SL name to endorse you for anything.
• You can look through my contact list to find the SL people I know.   
• And look through my contact list on Google+ for more SL people

Other social  media of interest
Google+ is my top choice for a social media site to promote your projects.

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