LinkedIn is the largest professional social media network in the world and has been steadily growing in numbers and importance for businesses and individuals in the past years. The platform plays an influential role both for personal as well as for professional reasons, from an individual and from a company perspective. If you haven’t yet made use of the possibilities that LinkedIn offers and utilised its power, I encourage you to do so now!

To persuade you why you (and your business or company you work for) have to be on LinkedIn I’ve created a detailed infographic that shows quite a few relevant facts and figures about the platform and how members make use of it.

I’ve always been fascinated with infographics and this is the second one I created myself (the first one represented my dissertation findings; you can check it out here). I hope you find it useful. I would love to hear your comments :)

PS: I really enjoyed researching and playing around to create the infographic, so stay tuned, because this won’t be my last one.

(Click on the infographic for a larger view)