How to Enhance Your LinkedIn Profile With Professional Portfolio
Are you looking for ways to get noticed and attract more business opportunities on LinkedIn?
In this article, you’ll discover how to use LinkedIn’s Professional Portfolio to make your LinkedIn profile stand out.
What is LinkedIn’s Professional Portfolio?
LinkedIn launched Professional Portfolio to showcase your unique professional story using rich visual content.It doesn’t matter whether you’re a photographer, a real estate agent, an interior designer or a marketer. By adding an interactive, rich media experience to your profile, you can leverage the power of imagery.
At present, the key features of Professional Portfolio are available on the following sections of your LinkedIn profile:
- Summary
- Experience
- Education
You can also link a range of documents and content types with Professional Portfolio. These are either hosted by LinkedIn or linked through approved providers. For example, approved providers for presentations are Prezi, Scribd and SlideShare. You can view a complete list of approved providers here.
How to Get Started on Professional Portfolio
First, select edit mode on your LinkedIn profile:
Editing your Professional Portfolio is simple and has lots of room for creativity.
LinkedIn encourages users to get discovered for their work by adding rich media.
Choose to Add Link or Upload File via the drop-down menu.
If you want to go back and edit any of the media, simply look for the pencil icon at the lower right corner on any of your content, click on it and edit the fields.
It’s as easy as that. In just a few steps, your profile springs to life!
LinkedIn created a SlideShare presentation showing how easy it is to add visual content to your profile, regardless of your profession. You can watch it here.
Action on your professional gallery is automatically showcased on the LinkedIn news feed.
#1: Showcase Video on Your Profile
There’s no doubt that video is an effective way to feature your business. Professional Portfolio lets you quickly and easily embed videos from a wide range of approved video providers.Melonie Dodaro embedded not one but two videos from YouTube in her Summary section to showcase her social media services and provide an example of her speaking skills.
Note how Melonie includes a call to action in both titles.
Professional Portfolio media are displayed in a scrolling menu at the bottom.
With so many people not using video in their portfolios, do you think video might help you stand out on LinkedIn?
#2: Embed SlideShare Presentations
SlideShare easily integrates with Professional Portfolio to provide another media-rich way to showcase your content.When looking for an example of SlideShare presentations being used to showcase skills and experience on LinkedIn, I needed to go no further than Jesse Desjardins.
Jesse uses SlideShare to highlight the incredible social media results he has achieved with his team at Tourism Australia.
By clicking on the image, you are taken to his Professional Portfolio, where you can view the complete SlideShare presentation, right within Jesse’s profile.
Just one media-rich presentation is enough to showcase the social media innovations at Tourism Australia.
Jesse and Tourism Australia are taking user-generated content to new levels. The whole story plays out in his Professional Portfolio.
#3: Highlight Your Achievements and Awards With a Visual Twist
Have you won an award? Published a bestseller? Been featured in a major blog or online magazine? Shout it from the rooftop with visuals.Fiona Lucas is the author of the recently published book, Futureproof Your Kids. With Professional Portfolio, she can visually showcase her book as well as her recognition as one of the finalists in the Most Clickable Women Awards with the following images highlighted at the foot of her LinkedIn Summary section:
Badges, awards and book covers stand out visually on LinkedIn using Professional Portfolio.
#4: Add Photos and Images for a Media-Rich Experience
Photographer Belinda Fettke uses Professional Portfolio to showcase her work by featuring an image gallery of her award-winning photographs at the end of her LinkedIn Summary:
Where is your eye drawn? To images…award-winning images, of course!
Linking to Behance is no different than linking to a normal article—just enter the URL of the Behance project you want to add while in edit mode.
Professional Portfolio offers a scrolling option so you can easily look through related images or photographs.
Getting social with images on LinkedIn.
#5: Provide Social Proof With Screenshots
As outlined in #1, video is one way to showcase your speaking experience on LinkedIn. But a simple screenshot can add social proof by sharing the perspective of audience reaction or testimonials from other social platforms.For example, to create a summary of your speaking experience on LinkedIn, start with simple images and screenshots from any recent and upcoming events to provide a snapshot of your experience. You can translate this idea to showcase any project, work history or “point of difference” on your profile.
Adding screenshots of tweets, upcoming events and testimonials adds social proof to your visual media mix.
#6: Link to Articles With Visuals
The simplest and quickest way to add visuals to your LinkedIn Profile is by linking articles with public URLs. Any live, public link containing an image, photo or infographic will upload instantly.Cindy King has used this to showcase her articles in Social Media Examiner by adding a direct link to them on her LinkedIn profile.
By clicking on this link, you are taken (via Professional Portfolio) to a stream of articles written by Cindy King on Social Media Examiner .
One way to retain control over images is to upload an image and then enter the information manually. However, you don’t get the benefit of the link being clickable or hyperlinked. It all depends on your priority between clickable links vs. having some control over the image that’s populated.
For example, on my own LinkedIn profile, a suitable image wouldn’t autopopulate from the link for an article on Forbes, so I used a screenshot instead. The image on the right autopopulated well and contains a clickable Read Original link to allow users to visit the original article.
Adding a call to action such as Click to Read can encourage the viewer to discover more of your profile.
10 Tips for Using Professional Portfolio
- Content must be hosted by LinkedIn or one of the approved services (including sites like YouTube, Pinterest, SlideShare, Spotify, TED and Twitter)
- Files should not exceed 100MB in size.
- Include calls to action on your image title and/or description (i.e., Click to view, Watch video).
- If possible, include a live link to your articles. If the link doesn’t generate or the image isn’t suitable, upload a screenshot/photo and manually enter the information. You can’t currently control the image that is autopopulated.
- You can reorder your media among sections of your profile. Click on Move this media in edit mode to access a drop-down menu of locations to move it to within your profile.
- Individual images can be rearranged by dragging and dropping them within a section of your profile.
- All titles and descriptions can be edited or updated.
- Only public URL links can be included at present.
- Start getting social with visual content by liking or commenting on images in other profiles.
- Mix up your visual media. Add a range of images, photos, screenshots, video and presentations. Be creative! Remember that every time you change your visual content in Professional Portfolio, it shows on the news feed, giving you more exposure to other LinkedIn users.
Still need some inspiration?
LinkedIn produced this SlideShare presentation to feature users who’ve leveraged the power of Professional Portfolio—an executive chef, a TV reporter, a motorcycle adventurer, a makeup artist and a writer.With Professional Portfolio, the ability to tell your professional story is really only limited by your imagination. I hope that these 6 tips will help you maximize your exposure on LinkedIn and better showcase your unique professional story.
What do you think? Have you used these features to showcase your skills and experience? If not, do you think you’ll consider giving your LinkedIn profile a visual overhaul with Professional Portfolio? Leave your questions and comments in the box below.
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