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5 Ways to Market Your Brand on LinkedIn
Linda Coles is the author of the book Learn Marketing with Social Media in 7 Days (Wiley) and is a social media speaker and consultant at Blue Banana. LinkedIn provides plenty of marketing opportunities, but lets take a look at some of the lesser-known tools. Although not all are free, ...
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Three Ways To Use LinkedIn If You're NOT Looking For A Job
A post last week on pimping your LinkedIn profile drew a big response and led to a divide in comments about whether people should be using LinkedIn. One of the bigger misconceptions in the comments was that LinkedIn is primarily a job-hunting site. But there are reasons to use LinkedIn ...
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How To Pimp Your LinkedIn Profile
I like using Twitter. I tolerate Facebook because I have to. And I'm on Google+ because everyone says I should be. So that has left little time to give love to my profile on LinkedIn, which is, depending on how you look at it, either the biggest niche social network ...
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LinkedIn Rolls Out Polling for Groups
Aiming to spur more conversation among its one million Groups, LinkedIn on Wednesday announced Polls, a new feature that’s designed to get a quick read on an issue. Ian McCarthy, principal product manager at LinkedIn, wrote via the LinkedIn Blog that the feature came about after Group Moderators shared that ...
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LinkedIn and Google Help U.S. Veterans Find Work and Each Other
As of October 2011, 850,000 U.S. veterans were unemployed. The jobless rate for post-9/11 vets hit 12.1 percent. With an estimated one million service members scheduled to leave the military between 2011 and 2016, it was high time for President Obama to find new ways to help vets find civilian ...
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LinkedIn Unveils Dashboard for Groups Statistics
LinkedIn has unveiled a new Group Statistics dashboard that allows group admins to drill down into the demographics and growth of their groups. The new dashboard, as CEO Jeff Weiner describes it on Twitter, turns relevant information about each group into an infographic-style display. This information is summarized on a ...
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LinkedIn Launches "Classmates" for Alumni Networking
LinkedIn has launched Classmates, a professional networking tool that gives college graduates a high-level look at where their fellow alumni work and live, and what they do. Classmates is designed to help LinkedIn users make and renew professional connections based on their college and university affiliations. The interactive graphs ...
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LinkedIn Classmates Shows Your Entire Alumni Network
Today LinkedIn launched LinkedIn Classmates, a way to tap into the power of alumni networks without calling your school's alumni office. This new tool gives you access to what your fellow alums are doing in their post-school lives, highlighting what they've accomplished since graduating, an opportunity to reconnect with alums ...
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Viadeo Looks to Take on LinkedIn in the US
Viadeo, a social network founded in 2004 with 35 million professional members worldwide, is looking to take on LinkedIn as the preferred business social network in the United States —  and the company thinks that its Viadeo API will do it. Viadeo recently launched a publicly available version of its ...
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LinkedIn Gets an Android App
Career-minded social network LinkedIn has finally released version 1.0 of its Android app, bringing the site's functionality onto the number one smartphone OS in the U.S.. While LinkedIn has had an iPhone app since 2008, it only just recently began testing an app for Android. The app has been in ...
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LinkedIn's Answer to Facebook's Open Graph
Professional social network LinkedIn has opened up access to a new developer platform today that should bring LinkedIn content, buttons, Twitter-esque "profile summaries" and more to websites throughout the Web. The platform, though, isn't just for developers. LinkedIn is offering an entire suite of plugins to bring all of this ...
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Backupify Now Archives Your LinkedIn Data
As the recent story of Flickr's accidental deletion of someone's account, along with 3400 of their photos, reminds us: just because we've moved from the desktop to the cloud doesn't mean we can forgo backing up our data. That's the service that Backupify offers, the ability to archive ...
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How Not To Describe Yourself on LinkedIn
Are you a results-oriented team player with a proven track record? Or are you a fast-paced problem solver with extensive experience? Chances are, if you're any of these things, then you're also a job-seeker using LinkedIn, the social network for the career-minded, and you're guilty of using some of the ...
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LinkedIn Tops 70 Million Users; Includes Over One Million Company Profiles
Professional social network LinkedIn now has 70 million members, according to the company’s home page. The company hit 60 million users in February, and has been growing fast, especially in international markets. LinkedIn’s network’s CEO, Jeff Weiner, stated in a blog post last fall that half of LinkedIn’s membership is ...
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LinkedIn Polishes Its iPhone App Into A More Facebook-Like Gem
Following a bit of planned iTunes Connect downtime for the holidays, LinkedIn came out with the latest version of their iPhone app today. As you might expect from a 3.0 release, the app has been much improved, namely in its user experience. In fact, it looks a lot more like ...
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8 Tips for Managing a LinkedIn Group
Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr. With over 50 million users, LinkedIn continues to be among the most popular social networking sites for business professionals, offering a variety of ...
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Buy Any Company In Under 5 Seconds, Courtesy Of LinkedIn
A not so well thought-out feature – or defect – allows any LinkedIn user to indicate the company they work for has acquired, merged with or become a division of another company without any third-party verification whatsoever. Worse, when a user falsely claims company A has e.g. purchased company B, ...
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7 Ways to Get More Out of LinkedIn
Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com. LinkedIn LinkedIn, which recently reached the 50 million user milestone, has long been considered the social networking site for professionals. If you’re in business, ...
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LinkedIn Reveals New Look, Better Navigation
Some LinkedIn users will have noticed a change to the navigation and user interface of the LinkedIn.com website, announces a company blog post. The business-focused social network is in the process of rolling out an updated design that aims to improve and simplify site navigation while also offering a cleaner, ...
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LinkedIn Hits 50 Million Users; Still a Roach Motel (Updated)
Updated at 11:30 PST with comment from LinkedIn. One million new people signed up for LinkedIn accounts already this month, taking the professional social network past the 50 million user mark. LinkedIn has some of the most valuable user data in all of social networking, not just because its ...
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LinkedIn Launches Profile Organizer, Enters Salesforce Territory
The business social network LinkedIn is not just a way to connect with your business contacts. For a lot of recruiters, salespeople, and other professionals, it’s a great business database for finding potential leads and new employees. Organizing the people and information you find though … well, you’re ...
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LinkedIn Launches Profile Bookmarking
If you're a hiring manager, marketer or journalist, you know how important it is to have leads. Those of us who've been on the hunt for good sources and staff have often resorted to bookmarking portfolios and saving them for a later date. Today, LinkedIn announced Profile Organizer - a ...
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LinkedIn Gives You a Better Way to Brand Your Business
Building your personal brand on LinkedIn LinkedIn can be instrumental in landing you that perfect job. But in today’s social media savvy world, companies also need to focus on their online professional branding strategies for better recruiting. LinkedIn thinks they can help here too. LinkedIn has just rolled out Custom ...
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LinkedIn Drills Down Into People Search With New Beta
There is an IBM commercial that pokes fun of people who spend time on social networks in the workplace (see below). It shows a young, hip guy who brags about having “826 friends” and explains to an older boss-lady type that he “can find anyone.” So she says she ...
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LinkedIn Launches Powerful Events Feature
What hot events should I attend in my industry? That's a frequently asked question in many professional conversations. LinkedIn today offers a great way to answer that question with the launch of its new Events feature. LinkedIn Events offers not just event search, but recommendations based on the contents ...
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LinkedIn Cuts 10% Of Staff
We’ve just heard from LinkedIn that the Sequoia-backed business network will be cutting 36 of 370 employees, or around 10% of the company. LinkedIn is saying that some of these employees will be reassigned to new roles (though the company won’t comment on how many new roles there will ...
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Study: LinkedIn Users Rich (But Still Annoying)
a study by Anderson Analytics confirms what everyone already suspects: LinkedIn users are rich. Nearly 60% of users have incomes of $93,000 or more. Executives with an average income of $104,000 make up 28% of the 2,000 random users polled for the study. Another 30% are self-identified “consultants” with ...
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LinkedIn Launches Business-focused Application Platform
The business networking site LinkedIn has now launched a new application platform they call InApps. It’s an OpenSocial-based platform that enables third-party developers to create applications that get embedded into LinkedIn user’s profiles. While this follows along the model used of Facebook, MySpace and host of other social platforms, it ...
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Which 5 LinkedIn Apps Would You Like to See?
The Mashable team can’t wait to see these 5 apps coming to our LinkedIn profiles. What are your top 5 most wanted LinkedIn apps? Share in the comments! 9 LinkedIn Apps Debut LinkedIn, the undisputed leader of business networking online, pulled a Facebook today with the launch of ...
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LinkedIn Means Business With New Application Platform
LinkedIn has launched its new OpenSocial-based application platform called InApps - an answer to the platforms found on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, but without the clutter and “junk” apps that plague those sites. Unlike most other social networks, LinkedIn apps must go through an approval process before ...
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LinkedIn Applications: Your Resume Just Got More Dynamic
LinkedIn has always served a very specific purpose in the business community: helping you find a new job. That utility came in a variety of flavors: posting your resume, looking through job listings, answering questions in hopes of highlighting your intellect, or getting in touch with former co-workers in hopes ...
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LinkedIn and CNBC Team Up for Industry News
LinkedIn and CNBC have announced a partnership today that unlike most of the hundreds of partnership announcements we see on a daily basis, seems to be something that actually impacts usability in a game-changing way. LinkedIn is, of course, the business based social network designed primarily to put together employers ...
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LinkedIn Rolls Out Enhanced Groups Features
Last week, we wrote about LinkedIn’s recent issues with its Groups - as part of a new platform rollout, a number of management features were apparently buggy, while others had been removed entirely. Tonight sees the release of a number of new features on the platform that should quell some ...
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LinkedIn Now Speaks Spanish
Spanish speakers who are using LinkedIn will be happy to know that this business social network now supports two languages: English and Spanish. You can choose the language from the drop down menu at the upper right hand side on the homepage. This move is on par to what ...
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New York Times, LinkedIn Enter Content Partnership
In a brilliant move that's sure to make both newspapers and social networks around the web jealous, the New York Times and LinkedIn, the leading US social network for professionals, are announcing a content partnership tonight that could substantially increase the value for users of both sites. The announcement ...
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LinkedIn DirectAds Combine Advertising with your Professional Reputation
LinkedIn is well established as a professional networking site, and if you play your cards right, you can leverage this online community to get the word out about your company, product or particular brand. But LinkedIn is now taking things a step further by allowing individual users on LinkedIn to ...
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LinkedIn Now Offering Network RSS Feeds
LinkedIn is now offering RSS feeds for network updates. The feature allows users to track updates and connections across their LinkedIn network via their favorite RSS Reader. For example the feed shows when people in your network connect with other people, make recommendations or update their LinkedIn status. As ...
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LinkedIn Revamps Design, Adds Status Updates
Thursday morning LinkedIn will roll out a new site-wide design featuring a tab-less header and a persistent left column with personal, account-related options. LinkedIn is also adding status updates with which users can broadcast their current activities (professional or otherwise) to their connections and/or networks. Just as when the company ...
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News Corp May Be Looking To Buy LinkedIn
News Corp. is said to be talks to buy business social networking service LinkedIn, according to TechCrunch UK. If the deal were to happen, it would bring MySpace and LinkedIn under the same corporate roof. Full story here. Mountain View based LinkedIn has approx. 12 million users and has taken ...
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LinkedIn To Open Platform In Response To Facebook
LinkedIn is moving to provide API’s that will open its platform to developers in response to Facebook’s rapid growth. Dan Farber reports LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman saying that the move will occur in the next 9 months. LinkedIn helped define the professional networking space, and yet today it faces the ...
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LinkedIn Raises Nearly $13 Million More
Professional social network LinkedIn will announce a previously rumored $12.8 million round of financing on Monday, led by Bessemer and the European Founders Fund. The company, which has been profitable since March 2006, has raised $13.4 million in two previous rounds of financing, bringing the total to more than $26 ...
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LinkedIn Expanding Model to Service Recommendations
LinkedIn, a social networking website primarily focused on business connections has added a section to their site that allows users to recommend service providers — a yellow pages based on user referrals. From web designers to doctors, users rate service providers in a thumbs up, thumbs down voting system similar ...
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