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Every day, LinkedIn’s number of registered users grows because they are all interested in the free services they offer and concept of professional social networking. Although there are people actively using LinkedIn’s service every day, people still enjoy logging in other websites that offer different services that LinkedIn does not cover.

The interesting thing is that these people do not use these services because LinkedIn doesn’t offer them. Instead, they use them because they complement well with LinkedIn in terms of productivity and getting their goals accomplished. Here are some other online services that you may find to be useful to work with alongside using your LinkedIn account.

Other Social Networking Sites

Nobody ever said that you should stick to a single social networking site whether it is LinkedIn or another network. Although many of the social networking sites are out to compete, signing up to others can be good in bringing people together. Some social networking sites like Facebook have applications and widgets that connect with the LinkedIn service like this one particular application that allows sharing of LinkedIn contacts. This is a great way to find other professionals who haven’t discovered LinkedIn.

Blogging Service

LinkedIn recently launched several applications including ones that will benefit bloggers. Those that manage blogs particularly the ones signed up with WordPress or SixApart can easily utilize the applications and incorporate them to their LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn continues to find new ways to connect these blogging services so LinkedIn doesn’t need a blogging service of its own. Getting a blog is a great way to freshen up your LinkedIn profile.

Online Storage Service

E-mailing services are quite limited when it comes to file sharing because the space is solely dedicated for e-mails and the attachment sizes and file type coverage have their boundaries. This is where online storage services take the primary role and LinkedIn is leaning towards that direction since professionals always need to share documents, applications, presentations, and other needed files. One of LinkedIn’s applications supports Box.net, a popular and affording online storage service.

Personalized Start Page

Web applications are so popular that they are taking over their browser homepages because of the amount of information it can display and flexible customization options given. Netvibes is one of the leading services that offers a free personalized start page and it has widgets that can fetch information from LinkedIn so that you have some quick updates without even visiting the LinkedIn website.

Online Travel Planners

There are a lot of professionals that are frequently on the go and most of them plan their trips using online travel planners to become better organized. LinkedIn saw the connection and developed an application that fetches updates from one of the popular online travel planners – TripIt. This is a great add-on to see where the people you are connected to are going and if they are heading your direction so you can set an appointment.

There are plenty of other services that will expand LinkedIn’s functionality and give users more ways to connect with people and interact with them. What is most important is that professionals are making good use of LinkedIn and any other service that makes LinkedIn even better.