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LinkedIn Member Growth: Separate Professional From Personal

Linkedin Member Growth Separate Professional From Personal

Career-focused social networking website LinkedIn – which debuted online back in 2003 - is becoming more and more popular these days. In fact, by the time you had finished reading the first sentence; five more people had probably created accounts. … [Read more...]

LinkedIn: 5 Tips To Raise Your Profile

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The business orientated social network LinkedIn is growing in users and we thought we would share some tips with you to help improve your profile, courtesy of Laura Smith over at CIO. … [Read more...]

LinkedIn Tips: Using Social Etiquette

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LinkedIn, the business-oriented social networking site which has been available online since 2003, has seen more than 75 million registered users in over 200 countries. As a user to this site, do you “accept” a friend request but do not taken it further. This leads to a build up of connections … [Read more...]

LinkedIn Myths: What Are They?

LinkedIn Myths- What Are They

Whenever you ask businesses what social networking service they are using the answer you get back most would be Facebook, so how come so many of them decide to ignore LinkedIn? One reason could be a few myths that surround the service – something that Neal Schaffer from Social Media Today plans to … [Read more...]

Google’s Social Networking Effort: Should Facebook Worry?

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Many of us have been aware for months now that Google are desperate to climb up on to the social networking ladder. This desire may have been fueled even more by the fact that Facebook has now overtaken the search engine as the website in which users spent the most time on. Google are hell bent on … [Read more...]

Facebook Sharing Data: Compared To Twitter and LinkedIn

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A question that many people will be wondering the answer to… What is a tweet worth? Well we are about to find out. … [Read more...]

LinkedIn: Launch New “Career Explorer”

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Since LinkedIn was launched in 2003, the business-oriented social networking site has had more than 75 million registered users in over 200 countries. As a extra string to its bow the site has introduced a new feature for the recently graduated. … [Read more...]

Fake LinkedIn E-Mail: Yet more spam

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LinkedIn, the social networking site aimed at business professionals has been the target of unwanted spam. LinkedIn, which was launched back in 2003 is mainly used for professional networking, and figures showed that as of 9 August 2010, the site had at least 75 million registered users. … [Read more...]

LinkedIn Social Networking: How to utilize the services

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LinkedIn, the social networking site is more geared up for the business-oriented professional. As of 9 August 2010, it has seen an impressive 75 million registered users over 200 countries. But are these users getting the most out of the site? Below are some tricks and tips to help the user … [Read more...]

LinkedIn $2 Billion Valuation: Capital not needed

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LinkedIn Corp., the professional networking site, now has a worth of $2 billion. This figure was arrived at after Tiger Global Management LLC, a hedge fund founded by Chase Coleman, paid $20 million for a stake, according to 2 unnamed people. … [Read more...]

Bump 2.0 for iPhone: Share Facebook Twitter and LinkedIn

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Bump – the popular app that makes it really simple to exchange information with others simply by bumping phones – has just announced the release of Bump 2.0 for the Apple iPhone. The app will allow people to instantly connect via Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. … [Read more...]

Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter: Where’s the competition gone?

Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter- Where’s the competition gone

2010 has been a very good year for social networking sites, the likes of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter has all seen growth. We have to wonder what makes these three stand out against the rest, and where are the rest for that matter? … [Read more...]

Job Hunting Online: Five things to avoid

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Anybody who has tried to look for employment during this economic climate knows how hard it is to find a job. There are currently more applicants than there are jobs available, and any advantage you can get over the competition can be a great help. … [Read more...]

LinkedIn Seminar: How to register

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LinkedIn, the social networking site mainly for business professionals can now be experienced with a hands-on approach at the latest seminar scheduled at The Hammond INnovation Center and the Northwest Indiana SBDC. … [Read more...]

Gay and Lesbians: Prolific users of social networking sites

According to a US market research story, gay and lesbian adults are among the country's biggest users of social networking sites and blogs. … [Read more...]

Apple’s iPad and iPhone LinkedIn poll on website access

Apple’s iPhone and iPad products have changed the way that consumers interact with devices. Instead of using a mouse to navigate the internet, they now use a touch screen. … [Read more...]

LinkedIn India: 6 Million Member and Counting

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After 6 months of opening an office in India, professional networking site LinkedIn has topped the 6-million member mark. Predominately this is a business-orientated networking site, and reaches out to people using languages in Portuguese, Italian, English, French, German and Spanish and with this … [Read more...]

Facebook and LinkedIn Head-to-Head: Privacy and Security

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With all the controversy surrounding social networking sites at the moment amid privacy concerns, just how do we know if it’s possible any more to keep our privacy and if so which sites look after our security the best? … [Read more...]

Investor on Enterprise: Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

Investor on Enterprise- Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

When it comes to choosing the best social networking tools for business, these would have to be Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Vendors have tried to recreate these top three but found that they were being blocked from the public Internet. Well that is what a venture capitalist said. … [Read more...]

LinkedIn for BlackBerry App: Review and Verdict

LinkedIn for BlackBerry App- Review and Verdict

The LinkedIn for BlackBerry App version 1.0 is finally available and we have to wonder if the two-year wait has been worth it. We say this because the app has been available on the iPhone for the past two years – so has a huge jump on its rivals. … [Read more...]

LinkedIn: Jobs, economic downturn, and Canada key for growth

LinkedIn- Jobs, economic downturn, and Canada key for growth

As we struggle to fight our way out of this economic downturn, we still cannot get around the fact that more people are trying to compete for the same job. Getting that job has now become more difficult – a result of more competition. … [Read more...]

Network Hippo: Manage contacts on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

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If you have been looking for a way of intelligently linking all of you social networks together you may want to check out Network Hippo, this allows social networkers to quickly and easily view contact information from your email account, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn profiles. … [Read more...]

China: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn is not enough

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A recent article post on Telegraph.co.uk suggests that almost half of China's Internet users log on to social networks, the same cannot be same for UK web surfers as only a quarter of them utilize social networks. … [Read more...]

Dentists: Understanding Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn

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There is some invaluable advice available for dentists on how to use Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn as a valuable tool for networking and expanding their patient lists. ExecSense has been examining social media to discover how other dentists are utilising the social networking sites to maximise … [Read more...]