Linkedin

LinkedIn Data Source

LinkedIn is a professional networking and career-building website. It can be accessed both online
and through an app and enables employers and employees to discover each other, promote CVs and
share business insights. LinkedIn has a massive reach, as of 2021, with over 774 million users in over
200 countries around the world.

LinkedIn is a social network that consists of ‘connects’, allowing people to make professional
relationships and businesses can also use it to create events, groups, publish articles and job
postings, and post other content such as videos or photos.

It is a great resource for businesses to give themselves a good public image, network, help to launch
new products and make them globally visible. It can provide you with a great deal of data that your
business can then use for analytics, helping to make your contribution more effective. To be able to
do this, the data that is generated needs to be pulled through to your business’s data storage facility
where it can be used for analytics and insights.

ETL Your LinkedIn

The process of pulling the data through from LinkedIn to your business’s data storage process or
data warehouse is carried out through the Extract, Load, Transform – or ELT – or Extract, Transform,
Load – or ETL – process. Gravity data’s ELT or ETL tool enables you to do this quickly and easily,
ensuring that you have the best information to make the right decisions, when you need it.

LinkedIn Use Cases

LinkedIn is an extremely popular professional networking and business engagement website. Some
of its use cases include:

• Networking
• Publishing content
• Analytics
• Recruitment

Features of LinkedIn

LinkedIn is widely used by professionals across the world. Some of its features include:

• External, third-party applications
• Applications platform
• Mobile
• Export contacts in .CSV or .VCF format

You can find out more about LinkedIn on their website here.

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