TIPS: Back up your LinkedIn connections!
By David Pastore 
You’ve spent months, maybe years networking and you have a terrific database of hundreds of great professionals.
If your LinkedIn account is ever comprised, all those contacts are lost. Forever.
To avoid all that heartache, back up your connections into Excel.
Simply download them, as follows:
- Go to “Contacts” in your LinkedIn profile
- On the toolbar, select “Connections”
- Click “Export Connections” . . . it may be in the right hand column or at the bottom.
Never in a hundred years would it have occurred to me that my LI account could become compromised. Thanks for the tip. (Just how does this happen, anyway… isn’t it backed up to their servers for us… and with alternate email log in, how does this happen…?)
This is a great tip. You would think that LinkedIn would have multiple sources with copies of your information but you never know when a hack will get into your account and mess things up. Thanks!
Thanks Dave. Good advice. Just backed them up. Whether LI backs up this info or not to their servers it is always a safe bet to run a quick export once in a while so to have this list close at hand.
Just backed mine up. Great advice!