LinkedIn and Website Project

HCA 447 - Healthcare Informatics

Fall 2017 (1 credit hour course)

Instructions for LinkedIn and Personal Website Project

Build a LinkedIn site and your own website through WKU

The LinkedIn site should contain the following sections

1. Summary

2. Experience

3. Skills and Endorsements

4. Education

5. Find five groups to follow

6. Connect with five of your classmates

7. Connect with me

Simply go to www.linkedin.com to sign up for this free networking site.

The Website should contain the following sections

1. Picture

2. Heading

3. Summary

4. Experience

5. Skills and Endorsements

6. Education

7. Working hyperlinks to five organizations of interest

Step 1: Signup for a Personal Site through WKU

http://www.wku.edu/it/websites/people/signup.php

Step 2: Create a text file using Wordpad or Notepad and save as an html file.

http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Simple-Webpage-Using-Notepad

Step 3: Download Filezilla and upload html file and picture. Make sure the file name of the picture

matches what is in the html.

http://www.wku.edu/it/websites/people/uploading-filezilla.php

Step 4: E-mail/Upload via Blackboard the html file and txt version of file along with link to site

Evaluation Criteria

Evaluation for grade

1. Correct Use of html tags in html file

2. Working link to site at people.wku.edu/firstname.lastname

3. All sections populated as listed above

4. All required connections made for LinkedIn site