LinkedIn, the job Networking site, has just pasted the 200 million user mark. While it’s older than Facebook, it took longer to get users. This is in part because of its focus on professional networking, rather than pure social.

Most of the users are in the US, and many are in technical fields. But a good profile can get you found my employers and companies wanting to work with you. I’ve had several legitimate contacts in the last few weeks myself.

If you want to make the most of it, make sure you connect with people, and fill out all the sections for the best chance to be found and contacted.

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LinkedIn now has 200 Million Users – Are You One of Them? was originally found on Access 2 Learn

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Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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