School leader Paul Ainsworth looks at the professional benefits and practicalities of using the popular LinkedIn social network.

Are you looking for a new method of meeting a range of educationalist across the world who you can share ideas with? Do you want to have subject-
specific conversations about the challenges that you face? Would you like a way of recording your professional development? Is this the time to find out how the careers of your contemporaries from school or university have
turned out?

LinkedIn is the world’s largest business-orientated social networking site with more than 120 million members. If Facebook reflects your social life then LinkedIn is seen as the equivalent for your work life. You have your own
page or profile, you can make connections with other users and have private conversations with them via its messaging service. You can use LinkedIn to communicate pieces of information, provide updates for your connections, and to join professional discussion forums.

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