How to Create a Video within Your LinkedIn Profile

How to Create a Video within Your LinkedIn Profile

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by nate in News

LinkedIn has not been very aggressive in allowing users to get video on their Profiles. Because of a recent application upgrade, you can now have video streamed right on your Profile page without getting redirected. Check out this short 2 minute explaination of how to get video on your profile.

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46 Responses to “How to Create a Video within Your LinkedIn Profile”

  1. Arian Oldham

    28. Apr, 2009

    Thank you again for the valuable information Nate! I had actually recently been wondering about how to do this. You saved me a lot of time.

  2. Ross Dodwell

    28. Apr, 2009

    Nate,

    You are awesome!!

    http://www.linkedin.com/in/rossdodwell

    Thanks,
    Ross

  3. Yvonne Ohumukini Urness

    29. Apr, 2009

    Great information Nate! Thanks for your generosity and service. Would love to know about any events or webinars you are hosting. You can link to my LinkedIn profile here: http://bit.ly/LinkedInProfile

  4. pete

    29. Apr, 2009

    Nate, awesome work around! This alone could easily differentiate someone from everyone else and give them a giant edge over their competitors. Thanks for sharing! http://www.Linkedin.com/in/peterking

  5. Steve Molloy

    04. May, 2009

    Nate – Thanks for the great info. Do you know what file format it accepts (Slideshow doesn’t specify)?

    Thanks,
    Steve
    steve@cvpproductions.com

  6. nate

    05. May, 2009

    Steve, it’s only through Youtube… so you upload the video to youtube, and copy the url. When you upload a powerpoint, Slideshare will give you the option to insert the video link.

    Best,

    Nate

  7. Rob

    05. May, 2009

    Where is the YouTube link placed? Before uploading or after? Where?

    Thanks!
    Rob

  8. nate

    06. May, 2009

    Rob… after you upload the power point, you can open the powerpoint and on the right will be an option to insert the video link anywhere you want up to 5 times 5 different videos anywhere in your presentation.

    Best,

    Nate

  9. Rufus Rajaratnam

    25. May, 2009

    Hi Nathan

    Thanks for the tips. I have been off late spending a lot of time on SMM.

    I have also spent a lot of time on LinkedIn towards this.

    Thanks one again. Found your website, blog and LinkedIni profile interesting.

    Regards
    Rufus Rajaratnam

  10. Vivek Bahl

    26. May, 2009

    Hello Nate,
    Thank you again for Great information! here and your latest webinar last week on LinkedIN.
    You can link to my LinkedIn profile here: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vivek-bahl/0/b85/58b

  11. Mike Flanagan

    27. Jun, 2009

    Thanks Nathan. This is a fine service to the L.I. community. I’m glad you’ve taken on the valuable role of educating and galvanizing people about LinkedIn.

  12. Lucinda

    28. Jun, 2009

    I don’t see an “option to insert the video link anywhere you want up to 5 times 5 different videos anywhere in your presentation.” Do I need to turn on a feature or something?

  13. Anirudh

    06. Jul, 2009

    Good one Nate thank you for the valualbe info.

    Cheers,
    Ani

  14. Mark

    19. Jul, 2009

    Nate,

    A greta tip that I’ll have to follow up.

    In the meantime I’ve already started to follow your webinar and book advice and even now I’m begining to see some positive benefit. My profile can be found at : http://www.linkedin.com/in/markouthwaite

    Cheers

    Mark

  15. Zurab

    23. Jul, 2009

    Nate, great work! Thank you!!

  16. June

    27. Jul, 2009

    Thanks for the tip Nate, Its just another indication that you should take time to make intro video for you & your business. Kind of the do it once and share it everywhere ie also on your FB, blogs and other social accounts where a picture can say a 1000 words with less effort to the audience to hear your message & build a relationship.

  17. Michael Albert

    11. Aug, 2009

    Nate: you posted the video suggestion a while back. Well, I just spotted it today and it rocks. Although I know this application should be a boom to my business and personal growth, I just don’t know (or am frightened of?) how to implement it.
    At any rate, thank you very much.

  18. nate

    11. Aug, 2009

    just get the video up and start playing around with the application… it’s quite personal and really let’s people get to know you.

    Gotta Love it!

    ~ Nate ~

  19. Richard

    14. Aug, 2009

    Nate,

    I just joined your group and found this posting. It was very helpful. Now I need to play with making a video and posting it to my profile. How scary – exciting!!

    - Richard

  20. Steve P

    31. Aug, 2009

    Hi Nate

    This is great stuff, except I thought I’d cracked by setting up a Slideshare.net account , uploaded the presentation (just one slide) then emebed my You Tube video and hit publish, only for it not to appear on my LinkedIn profile.
    Any idea where i went wrong?

    Many thanks

    Steve

  21. Verne Shaull

    02. Sep, 2009

    Thank you for the information on adding a video. Very interesting. Verne

  22. nate

    04. Sep, 2009

    Steve,

    You may want to check your slideshare settings within linkedin to see if you have it on the single or three slides visible on your profile. You need to have the single for the video to show up.

    You also need to authorize slideshare to post it on your profile in these settings.

    Hope this helps, let me know.

    Best,

    Nate

  23. Lucy

    10. Sep, 2009

    Great post…Appreciate you and your simple approach. I’m inspired to get my videos on now.

    Having been a coach for 25+ years, I can validate, the simplier the better…don’t complicate it and better to be brief. Life is simple, we complicate it. Good job!

    If I can be of assistance back to you, let me know ~

    TCOY (take care of you…for the Health of it!)

    Lucy

  24. Alannah Ryane

    17. Sep, 2009

    thank you very much…since i have a video and documentary production biz…a video would def be appropriate..appreciate this very much ..will share

  25. Sabrina Theis

    21. Sep, 2009

    thank you very much for this info, I’ll try to add a video immediately, Greetings from Sardinia,
    Sabrina

  26. Missy Knight

    01. Oct, 2009

    Thanks! Great Post – I’ll tweet about it today. @missy5ft2

  27. Andrew Meyer

    01. Oct, 2009

    Thanks Nate, for this video update – looks like you did this a while ago but still useful:)

  28. Blaine Bullman

    09. Oct, 2009

    That’s awesome!!!

    I didn’t know you could add videos to your linkedin profile and I haven’t seen any with a video but I can see how a video could set you apart and add that little bit extra.

    Excellent explanation Nate.

  29. Stu Brodie

    17. Oct, 2009

    Thanks for the information! Great Job!

    Stu

  30. Gavin Chase

    27. Oct, 2009

    Im probably doing something wrong – Im getting “the slideshow file format is not supported” when I put the youtube url in… ideas??

  31. Zahida

    31. Oct, 2009

    I’m going right now and do the video thing :-)

  32. Stan Hewitt

    14. Nov, 2009

    Great article and Great Blog. My son, who is studying to be a film director, made a video for a former NFL player turned sports trainer. utilizing your tips, I helped them add it to Antonio Gibson’s Profile. I think it adds a real nice professional touch to his profile. Thanks for the Tips!

    Here is his profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/antoniogibson23

    Here is Chris Hewitt’s profile, who filmed the video:
    http://www.linkedin.com/in/christhewitt

    Thanks again for the great tips!

    Regards,

    Stan

  33. Siddique

    17. Nov, 2009

    Nate,
    Thanks for sharing. Here you go.
    http://www.linkedin.com/in/siddiquem

  34. John Moffat

    13. Dec, 2009

    Excellent
    Such a helpful group
    now to see the cost of getting http://www.youtube.com/user/jrmds2108#p/a/u/1/X_GZd5qE8mg uploaded!!!

  35. Mark Jason

    31. Dec, 2009

    Nate,

    Thanks for explaining this process, it is exactly what I was looking for, please contact me.

    Mark Jason

  36. Dan Molloy

    01. Jan, 2010

    Thanks for the coaching Nate!
    Have a great year and if you care to have a CFP (conversation for possibilities) with me, after looking at my web site, I’m open to discussions with serious successful business people.

    Regards
    Dan
    Happy New Year!

  37. Karen Bowden

    07. Jan, 2010

    How do you spell your last name? You only tell us what it is and I can’t find it anywhere — yet! :-) Thank you!

  38. nate

    08. Jan, 2010

    Hey Karen, my full name is Nathan Kievman.

    Wish you well.

    Nate

  39. Jim

    16. Jan, 2010

    Our advocate group has a 23 min. video that we would like to make available. YouTube has a 10 min. limit. Any alternatives or thoughts?

  40. Michael K

    08. Feb, 2010

    Seems you can only embed video with link not embed code. This make the video show related videos at end which is not desirable. Is there a workaround?

  41. Iyabo Asani

    11. Feb, 2010

    Thank you. I recorded a video because I knew I could do something with it on LInkedin so now I know how to put this up.

    Can I have more than one slideshare presentation?

    I guess I will go over to my profile and find out.

    Thanks.

    Iyabo

  42. Mary Stefanki Davis

    26. Feb, 2010

    Thanks for all the great ideas on how to maximize linkedin and I am going to work on adding a video to my profile page. I appreciate your sharing all your knowledge and expertise.

  43. nate

    01. Mar, 2010

    You can have as many slideshare presentations as you want, but only one will just up in full screen, or you can have up to 3 thumbnails show up.

  44. nate

    01. Mar, 2010

    You can have one full screen show up on your profile or up to 3 thumbnails. Thanks Iyabo.

  45. nate

    01. Mar, 2010

    Not that I am aware of. Check your Youtube settings to see if you can turn it off there.

  46. nate

    01. Mar, 2010

    @Jim – Not that can be used on LinkedIn’s Profile page. You could break it up into 3 videos and post it into the slideshare application using 3 thumbnails that can be click in order. Only work around I can see.

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