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Chris Jarvis
Chris Jarvis

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Open To Helping

Last year companies started cutting back staff and lay-offs were common, this lead to an increase of the #OpenToWork badges on LinkedIN.

People wanted to help and that lead Alishah Novin to launch the yellow #OpenToHelping badge. The LinkedIn community rose to the challenge and Yellow badges popped up to help the Green badges.

The #OpenToHelping movement caught wild-fire and has helped thousands. However - because it's not an official LinkedIn badge, there's no easy way to add the badge to your profile... until now.

For all those #helpers out there, I've collaborated with Alishah to build a LinkedIn #OpenToHelping profile picture generator. It's simple to use, and hopefully brings more and more helpers to the community.

two column website. left column has a ring to upload an image. left column is instructions.

Alishah designed the badge maker and had much of the layout done. He wanted help to finish the project. That's when I joined.
I tighten up the look of site. Added a share to linked in button you click it to create your own Open To Helping post on LinkedIn. Photoshop was used to make the preview avatar.

Please check it out.

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Love how this initiative empowers the LinkedIn community to pay it forward and help others—great work.

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