Creative Professionals can now display their portfolios on LinkedIn
Ed. note: This belongs to a series of posts on how professional web sites and services are integrating LinkedIn functionality using the LinkedIn API. This post is from Scott Belsky, CEO and co-founder of one of the leading platforms that helps creative professionals display their work – Behance.We are thrilled to introduce Creative Portfolio Display, an invaluable application for creative professionals within LinkedIn and beyond.
For too long, creative professionals in industries such as advertising, fashion, design, architecture, film, photography, and digital media have lacked tools to efficiently manage their portfolios and showcase their talent. Personal websites don’t adequately broadcast your work for discovery by industry peers and top companies and neither is it tied to your professional identity on the web. Plus, keeping your work samples up to date on multiple websites is inefficient, resulting in portfolios becoming outdated and forgotten.
With LinkedIn Creative Portfolio Display application, we aim to empower creative professionals by creating a one-stop solution for maintaining their work portfolio and broadcasting it to millions.
Introducing Creative Portfolio Display
With Creative Portfolio Display, LinkedIn members can create a free, multimedia work portfolio that is displayed on their LinkedIn profiles as well as other websites and galleries around the web. This new LinkedIn application is powered by the Behance Network, the leading online platform for creative professionals.
Here are some key features:
- From one central portfolio, your work can be displayed within LinkedIn, Behance.net, AIGA, MTV, and other networks/galleries around the web.
- The Behance Network is a free service, allowing you to host an unlimited number of multimedia projects that include still images, video reels, text, and/or audio samples.
- Creative Portfolio Display seamlessly syncs with your free Behance.net account; Create a new portfolio project on Behance.net, and it instantly appears on LinkedIn and our other partner platforms.
Through Behance’s Creative Portfolio Display application, LinkedIn becomes a tremendous opportunity for creative talent to get found and showcase their work to millions of visitors.
If you are a creative professional on LinkedIn, we invite you to join the Behance Network and sync your portfolio with LinkedIn. If you are already a member of the Behance Network, simply install the Creative Portfolio Display application on your LinkedIn Profile.
We welcome your feedback as we continue to improve LinkedIn Creative Portfolio Display and other Behance Network services.
Install The Creative Portfolio Display Application on LinkedIn
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Phil Richards July 28th, 2010
Another great application, thank you.
What excites me in particular about this application ( and the Legal Updates) is that they are specific to a target market and another community.
I believe this makes them highly valuable, to the people in that market, and will have benefits for members of both platforms.
Keep these integrations coming it really adds value for us.
Phil
Carlos Guerra Amaral July 29th, 2010
Great (app) feature! Congratulations.
Adolphus Nolan July 29th, 2010
This is a necessary step for LinkedIn. I’ve noticed a number of freelance web designers with great portfolios but no, coherent, method of presenting these works. Sure they have “their own” websites but often the work outshines their own domain. I can see this app making a huge splash.
Kudos Behance.
Tom July 29th, 2010
Looks great. When announced this week, signed-up and started portfolio, BUT no images would load…I assume Behance’s servers were bombarded. Dissapointing.
ALSO – sales people, PM’s, account managers and other’s can benefit from Project Portfolio (although Behance Network is only setup for creative networking).
Looks great and plan to try again – Tom
web design jobs in miami July 30th, 2010
I am wondering why this feature added too late
so nice anyway finally its helps us.thats all looking for
thanks for useful info
$22,000/mo in 100 days July 30th, 2010
About time, more companies need to release this type of products. The world is ever changing and we need to keep up with times in order to stay relevant. It’s hard enough getting hired at Fast food places.
John Daniel Gore August 1st, 2010
As someone just starting-out, I feel as if I do not know how I will use this tool yet but I have a hunch I should begin learning now.
Thomas Schulze August 2nd, 2010
That´s a great featute you offer! Big creative move!
Yannis Marcou August 6th, 2010
Set up a portfolio and it works fine. A bit labour intensive to set up, but it’s good.
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Lisa August 17th, 2010
Could this be used within a Company Profile for a Creative Business?
Harry August 19th, 2010
Good to know you all! Hope this works, I got a lot of ideas, watch me!—-Why not share ‘em,? —I just want you all to get along and make this whole world a better place for our children to exist! Yeah, I’m a newbie, but I learn fast! So teach me, and I’ll show “U” what I do know! “let the spirit rise”. Thanks for the vent, Harry.
leoarjuna August 20th, 2010
Does portofolios will also appeared in our post in linkedin