Are you looking to promote your event? Are you looking for local networking opportunities? Here are three ways events can be used as networking tools on LinkedIn:
1. Find an event to attend.
2. Promote your own event or seminar.
3. Announce that you are attending someone else's event.
Step 1.Sign into LinkedIn.
Step 2.Find the "More" menu at the top of your home page. Click on the "Events" tab in the "More" dropdown menu.
Step 3 - Find Events.
You will come to the "Events Home" page. On this page, you will see Network Updates of events that people in your network are attending, hosting, or are interested in. This is a great way to find common interests with your network, or start conversations in order to build relationships with those in your network.
Click the "Find Events" tab.
To find events happening in your area, fill in the "Specific Location" radio button and enter the location you would like to search. I did one for Kelowna. You can see it here below:
Hit the Search button and it will return searches for the location you specified. Searches can be refined by: Upcoming, Within a Week, Within a Month, Within a Year, Past, or Any. Event Type can be refined by All, Conferences, Tradeshows and Conventions, Networking and Meetups, Training and Seminars, Fundraisers or Other.
Step 4 - Add Events.
Click the Add an Event Tab. Here, you can enter the event title, date and time, venue name, location, website and whether you are attending, are interested or are not attending. If you are not organizing the event, you would simply click that you are attending or that you are interested.
To have the event appear on your LinkedIn profile, select "Attendee",
"Presenter" or "Exhibitor" from the grey box that will appear when you
select the box next to "I'm attending."
If you are the organizer of the event, you click "Yes, I am organizing the event." and then Add more details. The "Add more details" screen will ask for all of the above details plus Address, City, Region, Country, Postal Code and a description. This image shows the screenshot.
It will also ask you to categorize your event by Type, Industry, Keywords, Who should attend and Organization, as you'll see in this screenshot below:

Step 5 - Publish.
Click on "Publish Event".
What events are you attending? Make sure you promote it on LinkedIn.
Thanks for reading!
Courtenay Pitcher