Juggling between work and family, working moms get very limited time to interact and establish their professional identities outside their day-to-day contacts. LinkedIn is an excellent widget for working moms to launch and develop their professional identity online. Imagine that LinkedIn is a business conference, where you can interact with over 100 million professionals around the world! So take a look at these tips and start networking!

• A good start of professional networking is creating a strong and genuine profile.

• While filling your history and summary, make sure you include keywords that you want to be found for, like if you are a lawyer, include what type of law you practice.

• Get connected to a minimum of 30 people. These connections will further enable you to track down first, second or third degree connections that can assist you in new career opportunities. Connect with former bosses, school and college classmates, colleagues, professors, clients, friends, family and other people you know and trust.

• Upload a professional headshot photo to your profile. It’ll make your profile look genuine and will also help people recognize you, more so if you’re married and have changed your last name.

• Keep updating your status regularly, like if you just landed a big client or how much profit your company made this quarter.

• Join the groups of your interests and give your ideas and advices to other professionals on LinkedIn Answers. Not only will this help you sharpen your skills and enable you to expand your network, but it will also lead you to new job opportunities and clients.

With LinkedIn, you get an online professional identity, a must for today’s time. More than 60% of the Fortune 100 companies use hiring solutions by LinkedIn. So if you do not have a LinkedIn profile (or your profile is incomplete or isn’t up-to-date) you may be losing your next golden job offer. So, all the working moms out there, LinkedIn is the perfect widget for your professional career.