Ethics & Professional Responsibility: LinkedIn

If you are not on LinkedIn yet, you need to be. If you are a prospective student, current student, alumni, looking for work or even if you are currently employed, you need to have a LinkedIn profile now.

For those of you that think that LinkedIn is just another social networking site, think again. According to LinkedIn.com, the site boasts more than 100 million networking professionals and is growing at roughly 1 million new LinkedIn members every week, which is the equivalent of a professional joining the site at faster than one member per second.

Here are the top-8 best practices from esteemed career experts on how to maximize your LinkedIn account.

What do John McCain, Bill Gates, Kevin Bacon, Sarah Palin and Barak Obama all have in common? They all have LinkedIn pages- and you should too. Read on to find out how you can become part of the LinkedIn community, population 43 million.