Updating LinkedIn profile details

[Megan.]

So now I'm out on FB and at work and living full-time,  I'm just wondering about my LinkedIn profile. I can choose to have changes to my profile picture and name sent out to my connections,  I'm curious what others have done?

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[Michelle_P]

So now I'm out on FB and at work and living full-time,  I'm just wondering about my LinkedIn profile. I can choose to have changes to my profile picture and name sent out to my connections,  I'm curious what others have done?

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I updated the name and picture without sending out the update messages.  THEN I posted a short 'article' and photo on my transition, and let that go out to everyone.  That way they had answers, not just questions.

[Valkyrie_2]

So now I'm out on FB and at work and living full-time,  I'm just wondering about my LinkedIn profile. I can choose to have changes to my profile picture and name sent out to my connections,  I'm curious what others have done?

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I'd always steer clear of FB and the other FB (LinkedIn is pretentious Facebook)


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[Megan.]

Michelle -  a good approach. I have quite a few old colleagues on LinkedIn,  so some kind of brief explanation may be warranted!
Valkyrie - I do remember a time before the Internet! But these networks can be used for practical purposes as long we don't let them run our lives.

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[Denise]

I changed it and didn't sent out any notifications. 
I am active in one support site and I received a personal message about my account must have been hacked.  😁 I assured him it wasn't.

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[Dayta]

I'm not QUITE out at work, freedom day is currently set at May 8th, but I updated my LinkedIn profile a couple of months ago by changing my first name to just my initial and dropping my profile photo.  I'm going to update my Facebook, probably the day I come out at work to everyone, and I figured to leave LinkedIn as is for a while.  It's completely accurate as it is.  Once I settle in to my new normal, maybe I'll update it.  Maybe not.  I haven't used it or anything other than catching up with some old friends, so it's not that important of a tool for me ATM.  Congrats to you though! 

Erin

[Megan.]

Dayta,  I hope all goes well for the 8th. I did the same,  work and FB on the same day.  Removed my old picture from linkedIn,  and now starting to consider updating it.

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[Michelle_P]

I'm not QUITE out at work, freedom day is currently set at May 8th, but I updated my LinkedIn profile a couple of months ago by changing my first name to just my initial and dropping my profile photo.

Erin, that is EXACTLY what I did last summer, about 5 months before coming out in public.  Online sites, e-mail, and everything else I could get to lost the old dude's photo, and the first names were all replaced with the initial.

I rolled out my online 'coming-out' on LinkedIn, as that was where I had connections to most of the people I hadn't seen in a while, old co-workers and acquaintances I knew from before retirement.  I did the quiet photo and name change and then posted a generic version of my coming-out letter and photo.  I used variations of that letter with the photo in letting organizations I am in know what was happening.

I then went live with the new Facebook page (see linky...), which is pretty much locked down to friends, just a few public entries for things I am promoting as part of my activism campaign.  (My Facebook 'friends' list is carefully curated to folks I know and trust, as things can get weird fast there.    Alas, I have had to cull the list a few times when I've been too trusting.)