LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking. As of July 2009, it had more than 43 million registered users, spanning 170 industries.

The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connection. 

Mintra manage one of the world's largest elearning networks on LinkedIn the Mintra E-learning Network. For further information, please visit http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=73990