A colleague brought this to my attention: LinkedIn is introducing “University Pages.” (The technical details are mostly over my head, but you may be interested.) It looks to me as if the initiative targets students rather than faculty, though I don’t know whether that means faculty really have no role in “University Pages.” But it raises for me the perennial question:

Should I stop deleting those LinkedIn requests, and go ahead and start an account? As a scholar in Biblical Studies, should I be “LinkedIn”?

As far as I know, LinkedIn helps users do two things…