You gotta ask why you would want to download your contacts from Linkedin:
a. Keep track of your contacts in Linkedin, just in case something happens in cyberspace
b. More easily see who you know a “XYZ” company
c. Conduct more personalized ‘marketing campaigns’, ie job search
Instructions that should enable you to fairly easily download your contacts from Linkedin into a ‘CSV’ file:
1. Go to linkedin home page
2. Click on the connections tab on the main menu
3. On the connections page, in the lower right, you’ll see a phrase “export connections” should be to the immediate right of the number of sent invitations
4. Click on the “export connections” link
5. You’ll go to the export connections tab, should be set to “microsoft outlook CSV file”, but if its not, click on the pop down menu and choose this option
6. Assuming it is set to “microsoft outlook CSV file”, click on the export button
7. Duplicate the ‘secruity’ codes and hit the continue button 8. Click on the open button, and the csv file should open up into excel 9. FYI, scroll to the right you’ll see a lot of interesting info, title, company, maybe phone numbers.
10. Save this file to your hard drive.
Best regards,
Doug Neeper
925.451.4541
doug.neeper@gmail.com
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