After receiving several email invitations to join LinkedIn I finally decided it was time to check out the site.  My first reaction was that I really didn’t want another site to login and maintain especially if it was just a ploy to sell my personal information.  I dutifully populated my profile with the basic facts of my professional life; education, job history, and skills.  Once I concluded that there was enough information in my profile I was ready to connect to my colleagues.  I used two methods to connect:  (1) The “Are you feeling lucky?” approach where you simply type the name of someone you think already has a profile.  If they are there, it’s like opening a door to reveal a surprise. You see the person’s name and enough info to recognize that they are the person you know.  Click on their name and select Add {colleague} to my network. or (2) Enter the email addresses of everyone in your address book and let Linkedin tell you if there are matches.  I found (1) to be more efficient, especially since my web-based email program doesn’t allow the export of my email contacts.  By the end of my first LinkedIn day I had 5 connections and 5 pending invitations.   One thing that took me some time to figure out was how to add bullets to lists of items in the various fields.  Since LinkedIn doesn’t allow HTML tags to create list with <ul> <li> <li> </ul> you need to use text symbols.  On MAC OSX Option + 8 will create the appearance of a bullet using plain old text.  Navigating to the Promote your profile page I found the code to add this button: