The following article came up a couple of open can times in my Google Alerts in the past few weeks, and I thought it was truly excellent. The author gives free reprint permission, so I thought rather than link to it, I’d just provide it directly here.

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Five Ways Authors Can Profit from LinkedIn
by Scott Allen on April 13th, 2008
 The following article came up a open can couple of times in my Google Alerts in the past few weeks, and I thought it was truly excellent. The author gives free reprint permission, so I thought rather than link to it, I’d just provide it directly here.

By the way, I’ve used LinkedIn for several of these myself. I found my agent for The Virtual Handshake indirectly via LinkedIn, and have used it in more ways than I can count to support my books. If you’re an author and you’d like more ideas beyond just LinkedIn, check out my article, Online Networking for Authorpreneurs.

5 Ways Authors Can Profit from LinkedIn open can

By Mahesh Grossman

LinkedIn open can, the social network for professionals, just changed my life.

To be honest, until a few weeks ago, I never took it seriously. From time to time a friend or an acquaintance would ask me to “link” with them, and I would, but I didn’t understand what to do with my network. In fact, I’m not sure I ever invited anyone to link with me.