In October we created a PSTV Alumni Group on LinkedIn, the popular professional networking website. Recently, PSTV alumnus Chris Rooney took the initiative to start a PSTV Alumni Group on Facebook, the popular social networking website. Thanks Chris. In less than a month the group already has 75 members and counting. If you're not one of them and want to join, click this link (you'll need to be logged in) and then click the Join Group link.

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LinkedIn, the popular website for establishing and maintaining professional business connections, now has a PSTV Alumni Group available.

In the past you could only connect with other PSTV alumni on LinkedIn if you found their name on your own and recognized it as a fellow PSTV alumnus, or if you got lucky with one of the very few members who manually added PSTV to their profile. This new LinkedIn Group makes finding fellow PSTV alumni much easier. Anybody who joins the group can then easily find others who have also joined the group. You won't automatically be connected with all other PSTV alumni but you can now have a direct means of forming that bond.

If you're not already a member of LinkedIn perhaps you should consider it. Unlike networking websites that concentrate on social interaction, LinkedIn focuses only on professional business connections. It is a great resource because it can connect you with people you don't know, who worked with a common contact. For example, you never met the manager at that station you applied to, but apparently he used to work with somebody that you went to school with. Bingo, you know have common connection that you didn't even know you had before.

• To join LinkedIn, click here and set up your profile.

• To join the PSTV Alumni Group on LinkedIn, click here.

• To join an unrelated Plattsburgh State University Alumni Group that is also on LinkedIn, click here.

Of course, don't forget the #1 resource for PSTV networking, PSTValumni.com ;-)

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