Etiquette About Contacting Other People's Connections on LinkedIn. With the LinkedIn online business networking website, you can build a network of professional and business contacts.

If you're serious about connecting with someone on LinkedIn, skip the boilerplate invite. Instead, follow these three steps to make connections effectively. We’ve all done this: You sign into ...

Creating a useful LinkedIn profile, and knowing how to interact with your connections on the professional social network, isn't always as straightforward as it seems. Building a strong profile on ...

Donna Serdula is the the author of LinkedIn Makeover and hosts a site bearing its name. I phoned her offices in New Jersey to — wait for it — connect.

On the other end of the spectrum are the LinkedIn Open Networkers, known as LIONs. A LION generally will add most people as a connection (whether they know them or not).

Andrew McCaskill, a career expert at LinkedIn with more than 30,000 followers on the platform, says he typically gets 10 direct connection requests per day, and knows the names of only one or two ...

So goes the LinkedIn etiquette, like it or not. It doesn’t take a LinkedIn savant to understand the quid pro quo that lurks behind an endorsement. 11. Don’t be stingy with endorsements.

LinkedIn used to be a place where you could only connect with colleagues you knew in real life. I knew plenty of people who took the connection very seriously and declined anyone they wouldn’t ...