wondered, "What is LinkedIn?"

The simple answer is that it's the world's largest professional network, helping people

find and share opportunities every day.

But how is it relevant to you?

Managing your career is just one reason to join LinkedIn. As you develop your professional

profile, you establish an authoritative resource on your experience and capabilities that lets

people find you when they search the Internet. In two minutes, you'll be up and running with

the most important page on the web you'll ever have. Do you know what people find when

they Google your name? With LinkedIn you'll have more control over what appears in Google

results, and having a robust profile encourages people to approach you with opportunities. Many

of your contacts are already on LinkedIn, and you can reconnect just by uploading your address book.

This lets you stay in touch even as your contacts change jobs and email addresses. Your reputation

is summed up by the relationships you've developed over your career. LinkedIn helps you maintain

these relationships authentically. In addition, when you want to make new business connections,

you can find people using LinkedIn's search tool -- then see who you know in common.

This makes it easy to request an introduction from your trusted connections.

You can also join a LinkedIn group, where professionals in your field discuss issues and solve problems

related to your industry.

Link to your Twitter account to share tweets with your professional network both from LinkedIn

to Twitter, and vice versa.

And use LinkedIn's mobile application to stay current with your network wherever you are.

These are just a few features that help you get the most out of LinkedIn.

Whether you're working in an office or on the go, LinkedIn keeps you in touch with the people

that matter to your career. And since signing up is free, LinkedIn just might be the best

investment you'll ever make in your career.