Add volunteer experience to your LinkedIn profile

You can now beef up your LinkedIn profile by adding any volunteer experience, a list of causes that you care about, and any organizations you support.

After all,  volunteering is as good for your career as it is for those you help. And your volunteer efforts are one more way to generate publicity.

Here’s how to add this new section to your Profile.

Step 1: Log into Your Account.

Step 2: In the Menu bar at the top, click on Profile > Edit Profile.

Step 3: Scroll down to just before the Summary and click on “Add Sections.”

 

add volunteering to linkedin profile

Step 4: On the left, under Sections, click on Volunteer Experience & Causes

add volunteering to linkedin profile

Step 5:  Add your volunteer experience and causes you care about.

Step 6: Click on Add to Profile

add volunteering to linkedin

 

What other ways do you use LinkedIn to promote your expertise?

Other Tools to Help You on LinkedIn: 

Your LinkedIn Power Formula: Learn How to Make Killer Contacts, Pull Crowds to Events, be a Star in Your Industry & Track Down Leads Like a Bloodhound

Your LinkedIn Power Formula Part 2: Advanced Strategies for Writing a Killer Profile, Cashing in on Groups and Creating Company Pages

 

Membership directories could include social media URLs

Cober of mmac membershipp directoryIf your organization publishes a membership directory, allow members to include URLs for social media sites like Facebook Fan pages, Twitter profilesYouTube channels and LinkedIn profiles, not just URLs for their websites.

That would be a nice value-added feature for chambers of commerce, convention and visitors bureaus, health care associations, school groups, etc. and it would distinguish your group’s benefits from those of your competitors.

I just received a copy of the 2010 Business Directory for the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce. While glancing through the members’ section, I noticed that all the companies, even mine, have only the URLs for their websites.

Can’t afford to let every member include social media URLs because of high printing costs? Then charge a small additional fee. 

Does your organization include these URLs in its membership directories? If not, why not? What other information do you include that members find valuable?