Palin's Latest Online Destination: LinkedIn

By: Stephanie Condon
Topics: Republicans

(www.linkedin.com)

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is using the professional social networking site LinkedIn.

The 2008 vice presidential candidate is one of about 50 million people on the site, which gives professionals a place to post their resumes and network.

Palin has a profile on the site that lists her professional history dating back to 1992, as well as her education. It also links to her political action committee, SarahPAC, and declares that she is interested in job inquiries, business deals, expertise requests, reference requests and getting back in touch. She has more than 500 "connections" on the Web site.

Palin had a separate LinkedIn page during the 2008 campaign that listed more of the higher education institutions she attended.

Representatives for Palin did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the LinkedIn page.

The former governor, who resigned from her post in Alaska in July, has stayed a part of the national political discourse through online media like Facebook. On Saturday, Palin wrote a Facebook note regarding the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill.

"Those driving this plan no doubt have good intentions, but good intentions aren't enough," she wrote. "If we don't fight for the market-oriented, patient-centered, and result-driven reform plan that we deserve, we'll be left with the disastrous unintended consequences of the plans currently being cooked up in Washington."

Stephanie Condon
Stephanie Condon is a political reporter for CBSNews.com.
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by stuart-johns2 October 19, 2009 12:56 PM EDT: This is akin to where Mickey Mouse's next destination will be.; Reply to this comment


by bearkat30 October 19, 2009 12:23 PM EDT: She's the American Idol of politicians. She has no talent whatsoever, yet somehow she gets airplay. What a World, what a World.....; Reply to this comment


by actornaught October 19, 2009 12:20 PM EDT: Sarah probably thinks the Matrix is possible, and that this is how to get in on the groundfloor, like volunteering to be a personal virus.

Didn't that cat walk past the door twice?...; Reply to this comment


by Sloughfoot October 19, 2009 12:16 PM EDT: Take a page out of MJ's final chapter. Your political career is over. Bury it.; Reply to this comment