Start brainstorming and begin collecting your visual files for LinkedIn

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Here’s a creative idea that will really pay off. If you don’t have any images of yourself at work, next time you’re making a presentation, within a small trusted group in a meeting or at an event, get someone to take a wider angle shot of you talking to a group, a client, at the whiteboard, or when you’re explaining something to someone. Having other people in the shot is a great idea, but the only clear face in the photo (frontal or side view) should be yours.

# 3 Create your own screenshots

Download the great free screenshot tool ‘Lightshot’. Then start thinking about all greece whatsapp phone number the valuable data you have on your own hard drive that could be transformed into images for your LinkedIn and other social media profiles.

Here are some ideas to get you started:

• a website or blog you designed (a screenshot of a particular page can be used in addition to a direct link to the main page)

• the cover page/table of content of a report

• a visually interesting title slide of PowerPoint presentation (re-do the cover shot if it’s just a boring plain text title)

• An idea for more advanced graphics software users: Use your program to create a collage of items you’ve already created (e.g. screenshot collage, title page collage)

Start a folder of potential visuals and media items that you could add to your LinkedIn profile. Once you have something concrete and attractive to offer your visitors, you can upload them. As a beginner, you can add two or three items to start and then add/replace your media files with better or more current files. The latest file you upload will appear first in the list.

How do you add visuals to the media section of your LinkedIn profile?
You cannot add clickable links directly to your ‘Summary’ text or embed visuals in the text. But you can add media and links directly below the ‘Summary’ section. Here you can add a collection of pre-sized media boxes that contain an image, title and description to entice readers to find out even more about you, your professional activities, your work environment or see some of your work samples.