How entrepreneurial physicians get answers to burning questions

There is always something new and helpful to discover on the web.

But first:

How many of you are LinkedIn?

How many of you know how to use LinkedIn?

And who knows how to put up a killer LinkedIn profile? For some assistance, I recommend a look at Guy Kawasaki's LinkedIn Makeover blog post.

This subject came up yesterday when I was helping a client with a job search. He wasn't aware of any of the social networking tools that are being used for effective career development, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and even Twitter. And for those of us who are physician entrepreneurs, these platforms are great places to find resources, introductions and potential business!!

Well, today, I discovered LinkedIn Answers - the place to pose a question to the vast professional community that exists on this social network. You can ask your question by various categories (e.g. Career and Education, Professional Development, Startups and Small Businesses and Technology).

Examples of questions include:

• Career advice for someone in tough circumstances
• How do you build rapport with the gatekeeper so they want to help you...?
• How do you regroup from letting go of a client who a) became a friend and b) started eating up all your time and energy?

And in case you want to read more about using the most helpful social networking platforms for professional and business development, here are some useful articles:

Internet Job Hunting - Using Social Media

Web 2.0 Dominates Trends in Internet Job-Hunting

Looking for a new job? Use Twitter.

How Twitter can help at work.

Comments

[endoguy]

Philippa,

Great information. I had heard about LinkedIn a while ago and had just signed up. This info will really help me out.

[Philippa Kennealy]

Glad it is helpful Endoguy! Maybe you'll be teaching us something next time :-)

Philippa

[Akshay Kapur]

Philippa,

Once again, you've illuminated amazing potential in a commonly-used platform, in this case for social/business networking.

Your links are incredibly useful. I went to each one and made use of it to spruce up my linkedin profile (which I've had for about a year now!). I have an invitation headed your way as well.

Thanks for drawing attention to linkedin, which really does a great job creating a bridge to people from all levels, from the desk employee all the way to the CEO.

[Philippa Kennealy]

Hi Akshay

I look forward to the invitation :-) And I will check you out on LinkedIn.