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Many people have praised LinkedIn for its capability of obtaining lots of different information that cannot be found elsewhere. These very people join LinkedIn to see what all the fuss is about and may end up being disappointed because many of the features of LinkedIn can be found in the more popular networking sites.

 

What really separates LinkedIn from the rest is their community and that is where the unique information starts to come into the picture. Thanks to their large community of professionals and seamless integration with other components, you can get all types of information exclusively at LinkedIn the most common types being the following.

 

Company Profiles

 

LinkedIn has an extensive database of different companies that grow whenever new members register because it is they who place their company profiles there so that they are on the network map for others to look for. You can probably find company profiles in their respective corporate websites, but LinkedIn makes searching extremely easy with lots of ways to do it.

 

Searching for company profiles is a great way for jobseekers to find their ideal company to get into or for professionals that are already representing a company to check on how their competitors or doing as well as discover new ones.

 

Professional Ideas

 

LinkedIn is an excellent repository of topics that are related to the business world. If you explore the different groups formed by registered members of LinkedIn, you will learn a lot from the different discussions that are made by the group members.

 

There is another major area that LinkedIn users head to often too called “Answers”. This section lets people ask any business-related question they can think of and then categorize it in such a way that it is easy for others that likely know the answer to find. Since there are professionals coming from all parts of the world, you are sure to get some world-class information from these professionals that you simply cannot find in standard knowledge websites. Looking at some of the professional profiles and company profiles also include special business-specific fields that aren’t present in conventional social networking sites.

 

Current Business-related Events

 

Social networking sites let you better keep track of what your direct contacts are doing. But the majority of users that are active in the social site often display public events that are not business-related for confidential reasons. However, in LinkedIn, business is emphasized and people will almost always use the standard features like status updates, blogs, and other common tools found in social networks to let others know what business-related events they are currently into. People that add trusted contacts won’t hesitate at all in making their business activities public. The information that you can gain from this depends on the number of active users that are connected to you.

 

All you need to do to get all this information is to register a new account in LinkedIn or login to your existing account and explore the different features that are offered. You will be surprised on how much new things you can learn after using it for a few days.