Optimizing Your LinkedIn Profile: Add Video

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LinkedIn is a online professional community that is quickly gaining in popularity with over 38 million members. As a small business owner, you need to consider not only adding yourself but your company profile to LinkedIn. The next couple of post we are going to be talking about ways to optimize your LinkedIn profile.

Adding a Video to Your LinkedIn Profile Using Google Presentation

Be sure the video you want to use is already on YouTube.
Go to your LinkedIn Profile and Select “Applications”. Then select “Google Presentation” and add it to your profile. You may have to browse “more applications” to find it.
Creating a Google Presentation -If you don’t already have a presentation, then click “Create a Presentation”. This will take you to a Google Document’s Presentation Page where the first slide is already up on the screen.
To insert your video-From the first slide, click ” Insert”. Several options will appear. Select “video”. You will get a YouTube search window. Scroll to find your video or the video you want to add and select it. You may need to change the size of the video for this presentation.
To insert the link you created select the “Text” button and add the text you want to add. Select the “Link” button and add your URL to the link.
You then need to share the Presentation-Select the “Share” button and choose “Share” or “Embed”.
You will see two windows… select your presentation from the screen on the left
Click “Post To Your Profile”

That is all there is to adding vidoe to yout LinkedIn profile.

Here is a good video explanation by Talmadge Boyd at Reel Social Media