I am a strong believer in backing up information. One of the things I have discovered that few people back up are their Linkedin connections. I doubt Linkedin is going anywhere, but you never know. So, I encourage you to at least back this data up to a file on your computer every now and then (so you keep the latest data).

Backing up Linkedin is easy. Here are the steps:
1) Log in to you Linkedin account.
2) From the menu on the top left of the page, click on "Contacts".
3) This will take you to a page listing all of your connections (see image).
4) In the upper right is an option to "Export Connections" (also at the bottom of the list).
5) Click here and select the file type you want (.csv is probably the most versatile).
6) Create the file and save it to your computer (use save rather than open).
7) From here, you can upload your contacts into other databases such as Outlook, GMail, Yahoo etc, or just keep the file as a pure backup should you ever need it.

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