Have I been bothered or inconvenienced by sharing this contact information? Not that I know of. Some of you may think I am nuts to share all of this information so freely, especially my cell phone number. This highlighted portion of my profile is displayed when a user clicks on the ‘Contact Info’ text which I have pointed out. I have highlighted that portion of my profile which depicts my contact information. Here’s a screen shot of the top portion of my LinkedIn profile. Skype (preferred by many contacts, especially international ones).Mobile phone for calls and text (preferred so can reach me at conference etc).All of which can be found at someone’s office desk, mobile phone, or tablet being viewed on a commute.
LinkedIn is gracious enough to let us list all of our points of contact - for free. As lawyers we have additional points of contact by which people can engage us beyond a office phone and address. Today, LinkedIn is the directory and networking platform of record for professionals. And no one had a problem listing a law firm and its lawyers, with contact info, in the business directory you’d see at the library, the chamber, and in some businesses. Whether your law firm used the yellow pages or not, your lawyers were listed in the white pages. Lawyers and law firms freely included all of the contact info we had before the net (business phone number and office address) in phone books and local business directories. So why is it that lawyers do not include all of their contact information with their LinkedIn profile? Phone books and local business directories look like chump change when compared to LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is adding new members at the rate of 2 per second. LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with more than 187 million members in over 200 countries.
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