Sometime last week LinkedIn's Groups product team made a significant change to group member communications. They have made it even more difficult for those that share a group to message other group members that may be in their second and third degree networks. Now you are required to go to the Member tab to locate the group member to send a message.

Martin Brossman, success coach, speaker, trainer and author incorporating social media training, (www.pronetworkingonline.com)uses my profile to demonstrate how to add video to your LinkedIn.com profile. To see this in action, head to my LinkedIn profile here and click on "View Full Profile".

For college students considering a career in the new media field there is one online community they need to be part of: LinkedIn.com. Why? Your professional reputation depends on it. LinkedIn has brought together over 50 Million professionals, small business owners, entrepreneurs, job seekers and college students in an effort to make it easier to solve a simple professional task; to find someone that knows the answer.

Updated 7/29/2011 The original video included in this post was an interview with Martin Brossman and Shirley Min of Raleigh's NBC17. Unfortunatly, NBC17 archived this video and has taken it down from the web. Below is a related video of Martin Brossman speaking on the same subject of using LinkedIn for job seeking.

Have you ever been in the situation where you were talking to a friend or an old boss and they mention that they were looking for someone to fill an open position or maybe there is someone you thought they should meet because they share a common interest and could mutually benefit from the introduction? Was that person in your LinkedIn network? If they are, here is a neat way to get that person's profile and a note to your friend or old boss. Have you use the "Forward Profile" feature? Once, never? After reading this consider using it a little more often.

On November 3, 2008 a group of about 35 people descended on a conference room at iContact in Durham, NC to learn more about how to enhance their profile for a job search. These 35 people are members of Linking Raleigh, NC, a networking group on LinkedIn with a very high concentration of Triangle professionals with profiles on LinkedIn.com. I, Greg Hyer, brought them together to discuss and share with them a number of best practices that should be considered when gearing up a profile for a job search.

Enhancing Your Profile To Be Found

Why should you enhance your profile? There are two reasons why. One is to increase your chances of being found. Whether you are in a job search or you are an entrepreneur you need to have a well written profile that can be found when someone searches for someone like you for a need they have. The second reason is that you want to communicate information about you accurately.  This is a chance you for you to brand yourself an expert in your field or industry. That can and needs to be communicated in your profile. That these two things in to consideration when enhancing your profile and you can increase your chances of being found on LinkedIn.