By Jessica Quillin, Inside Higher Ed
The prospect of online networking through a site like LinkedIn can seem as arduous as an annual checkup. You know that it could be good for you, especially in the long run. Yet its benefits seem illusory enough (after all, how unhealthy is your career?) that the sheer act of going to the site and dealing with e-networking seems hardly worth the effort of typing in the URL. Higher education professionals are particularly poised for taking advantage of the networking capabilities of a site like LinkedIn. However, as with any new media tool, LinkedIn involves a certain amount of patience, creativity, and restraint in order to fully leverage what the site can offer.
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