Friday, July 20, 2012
Where LinkedIn is headed next
CEO Jeff Weiner discussed the volatility of the stock's first year, as well as the company's plans for future growth.
FORTUNE -- On May 19, 2011, LinkedIn (LNKD) went public. The online professional network's stock soared to more than double its offering price on its opening day, and then teetered up and down in the months to come. A little over a year later, on May 25, CEO Jeff Weiner discussed the volatility of the stock's first year, as well as the company's plans for future growth. He talked revenue streams, developing the product in China, and making the website more intuitive. Weiner shared the company's Duke Blue Devil-inspired mantra, noted its strong support from the Dutch, and fended off the notion of an acquisition by Microsoft. An unedited transcript follows.June 18, 2012: 10:25 AM ET
Read full article here.
What's Next for LinkedIn?
Recently, in the first week of May this year, LinkedIn bought SlideShare, a leading professional content sharing community, at around $118.75 million. The deal is supposed to close in this second quarter (…and consequently, this will show in the bottom-line of the company in the second-quarter report).
Read Suman Chatterjee's full article on seekingalpha.com by clicking here...
Thursday, July 19, 2012
How to Embed Videos in LinkedIn
Here's a video from YouTube to show you how to embed videos into your LinkedIn profile:
LinkedIn Makes Homepage More Like Facebook, Google+
Here's an interesting article by Todd Wasserman from mashable.com: LinkedIn overhauled the look of its homepage on Monday, the end result of which is sort of a mashup of Facebook and Google+.
As on Facebook, the design — rolling out over the next few weeks —
has more relevant updates on top plus a comment stream that is set off
with a different-colored (light blue) background. There’s also a line on
top of the stream that shows which people — and how many — commented
and liked the post.
However, the design is less cluttered than Facebook’s, making it more
similar to Google+. The page also boasts a black band on top hosting
headers like “Home,” “Profile,” and “Contacts.”
“This simpler and cleaner design makes it easier to navigate the page
and quickly find the updates you’re looking for – whether that’s a news
article your boss has recently shared or it’s to see who has just
started a new job,” writes Caroline Gaffney, a product manager at
LinkedIn, in a blog post explaining the move.
Read full article here...
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Linked In's New Homepage
I found this article on businesinsider.com:
Your LinkedIn Homepage Is About To Go Through A Major Change
Steve Kovach | Jul. 16, 2012, 12:30 PM
LinkedIn is rolling out a major refresh to its homepage starting today, the company announced on its blog.
The new look removes a lot of the clutter from your home screen, focusing on the network updates and news that you'll likely care about the most.
Instead of a flood of updates from all of your contacts, LinkedIn will determine the ones that matter the most to you. Articles from LinkedIn Today, the company's news aggregation product, will be displayed more prominently too.
Click here to read more...
Your LinkedIn Homepage Is About To Go Through A Major Change
Steve Kovach | Jul. 16, 2012, 12:30 PM
LinkedIn is rolling out a major refresh to its homepage starting today, the company announced on its blog.
The new look removes a lot of the clutter from your home screen, focusing on the network updates and news that you'll likely care about the most.
Instead of a flood of updates from all of your contacts, LinkedIn will determine the ones that matter the most to you. Articles from LinkedIn Today, the company's news aggregation product, will be displayed more prominently too.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
A Negative Effect of Social Media...
This is hilarious to me, but shows how social media has contributed to the bad communication habits we have developed as a society...
How to Use LinkedIn
This is a great article by Alison Doyle from About.com Guide describing the basic use of LinkedIn:
(click here for original posting...)
LinkedIn
is a directory of professionals and companies. Individuals and
companies use LinkedIn for networking, job searching, hiring, company
research, and connecting with affiliates, including alumni, industry,
and a variety of other business related groups.
It's quick and easy to get started using LinkedIn. You'll need to
sign up for LinkedIn and create a Linkedin profile. Then you'll be able
to start using LinkedIn to connect, to network, and to job search and
boost your career. Here's how to use LinkedIn.
How to Get Started on LinkedIn
One of the most important parts of LinkedIn is your profile. That's what you use to connect with people in your network and your profile is how you get found on LinkedIn, because it contains information about your skills and experience.
How to Use LinkedIn
How to use LinkedIn as part of your job search, including how to increase your visibility and connections, so employers and recruiters can find you.
LinkedIn Message Guidelines
Tips for sending LinkedIn invitations asking people to join your network, as well as advice on writing LinkedIn messages requesting recommendations and job search and career assistance and advice.
LinkedIn Job Search
How can you ensure that you're using the full power of LinkedIn to assist with your search for a new job? It's important to effectively use your connections and to use the information available on LinkedIn when you're applying for jobs.
Your LinkedIn Profile
The more complete your LinkedIn profile, the more chances you will have to be found and to be contacted. Use your LinkedIn profile like a resume and provide prospective employers with detailed information on your skills and experience.
What to Include in Your LinkedIn Profile When You're Unemployed
What to include in your LinkedIn profile when you are unemployed is an issue. That's because even though you might be unemployed you want to present yourself in a positive light to prospective employers and to networking contacts. Here are tips for what to include in your profile when you're out of work.
LinkedIn Company Profiles
LinkedIn company profiles are a good way to find, at glance, more information on a company you're interested in. You'll be able see your connections at the company, new hires, promotions, jobs posted, related companies, and company statistics.
LinkedIn Mobile
LinkedIn Mobile features include searching and viewing profiles, inviting new connections, access to LinkedIn answers, and actionable network updates. Use it to keep your job search moving forward when you're on the road.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
LinkedIn Watching Me?
Heads up, LinkedIn users: 93% of recruiters are looking at you
The professional network leads the list as the top social media site scoured by professional recruiters to track down job applicants.
LinkedIn users hunting for a job may want to spruce up their profiles.
A recent survey from Jobvite found that 93 percent of job recruiters tap into LinkedIn to find qualified candidates, up from 87 percent last year and 78 percent in 2010. But the other popular social networks are growing in influence as well.
In second place, Facebook is used by 66 percent of the recruiters polled, up from 55 percent last year. And Twitter is on the watch list among 54 percent of those surveyed, up from 47 percent last year.
Would you stay in a hotel room that was 16 ft. below sea level?
I found this hotel online today and thought it was amazing!
Read the blog post by Eugene ![]()
from last year about Conrad Maldives Rangali Island. Interesting place!!!
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
LinkedIn Account Compromised? Test Your LinkedIn Password
The company LastPass has created an online tool so users of LinkedIn can check to see if their passwords have been compromised. Visit https://lastpass.com/linkedin/ to make sure you were not a part of the security breach.
LinkedIn Slapped With $5 Million Lawsuit Over Password Breach
The news just keeps getting worse for LinkedIn. The social network for work professionals is being sued for $5 million after more than 6 million of its users’ passwords were leaked online earlier this month.
Katie Szpyrka, a LinkedIn user from Illinois, filed the lawsuit. She claims LinkedIn deceived its more than 160 million members by having a security policy “in clear contradiction of accepted industry standards for database security.” Szpyrka is seeking class-action status for the suit.
LinkedIn spokeswoman Erin O’Harra told Reuters that “no member account has been breached as a result of the incident, and we have no reason to believe that any LinkedIn member has been injured,” something that Szpyrka’s lawyers would have to prove for their suit to be successful.
Read full article...
Facebook Jobs Board Competition for LinkedIn?
Check out this interesting article by Todd Wasserman that I saw on mashable.com:Facebook could launch a searchable job board later this summer, according to a report. If true, the entry would tread on LinkedIn‘s territory.
Citing “people familiar with the matter,” Dow Jones reported earlier this week that the social networking giant was preparing to aggregate job postings from third parties. The effort involves at least three companies that already use Facebook as a professional network hub, including BranchOut, Work4 Lab and Jobvite, according to the report. Reps from Facebook could not be reached for comment.
Though leveraging Facebook’s 900 million-plus user base might worry any competitor in the estimated $4.3 billion online job-recruitment category, based on the report, LinkedIn can probably relax. “It doesn’t feel like a big effort that they’ve worked on for a long time,” said one source quoted in the report. “It feels lightweight.” The goal of the site is less to compete in a new market than to drive more engagement, the source told Dow Jones. It’s also unclear how the job postings would circulate and if they’d appear in Facebook’s News Feed or elsewhere on the site. However, a serious entry by Facebook into the market could disrupt LinkedIn’s business, especially since many recruiters already prefer Facebook to LinkedIn.
Click here to read full article.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
The Top Ten Reasons Twitter unlinked from Linkedin:
I found this funny post on a blog named "My Little Media Business Blog":
The Top Ten Reasons Twitter unlinked from Linkedin:
Click here to read entire post.
Twitter Cuts off service to LinkedIn
Thursday, July 5, 2012
LinkedIn Offering Free Trial Premium Membership
I received this in my email today:
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LinkedIn - More than Meets the Eye
Some of you may think LinkedIn is just a place to connect with other professionals or network, which is it's main purpose, but there's so much more to LinkedIn. Check put LinkedIn's list of products and services they offer through the website.
LinkedIn Products and Services
Monday, July 2, 2012
Paying for LinkedIn?
Do you need a Paid Account?
To be honest, until recently I didn’t think anyone needed a paid account. In my experience, with enough connections and connected to some strategic groups, you could gain access to the people you needed to on LinkedIn.
However, with the recent shift in security setting defaults (mostly groups and visibility) I am rethinking my opinion. The shift in default settings is making people less visible and harder to get in touch with. With the loss of visibility of our our 2nd and 3rd connections last name name, suddenly a paid account is looking more attractive and those InMails and extra Introductions are becoming more useful. I’m certainly receiving a lot more InMails and Introductions than I used to. more...
Who we are: LinkedIn
Company Background
- LinkedIn started out in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman in 2002.
- The site officially launched on May 5, 2003. At the end of the first month in operation, LinkedIn had a total of 4,500 members in the network.
- As of March 31, 2012 (the end of the first quarter), professionals are signing up to join LinkedIn at a rate of approximately two new members per second.
- The company is publicly held and has a diversified business model with revenues coming from hiring solutions, marketing solutions and premium subscriptions.
LinkedIn Facts
- As of March 31, 2012, LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with 161 million members in over 200 countries and territories.
- Sixty-one percent of LinkedIn members are located outside of the United States, as of March 31, 2012.
- LinkedIn members did nearly 4.2 billion professionally-oriented searches on the platform in 2011 and are on pace to surpass 5.3 billion in 2012.
- Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., LinkedIn also has U.S. offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Omaha and San Francisco. International LinkedIn offices are located in Amsterdam, Bangalore, Delhi, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Melbourne, Milan, Mumbai, Munich, Paris, Perth, São Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.
- The company’s management team is comprised of seasoned executives from companies like Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, TiVo, PayPal and Electronic Arts. The CEO of LinkedIn is Jeff Weiner.
- LinkedIn is currently available in seventeen languages: English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
- As of March 31, 2012, LinkedIn has 2,447 full-time employees located around the world. LinkedIn started off 2012 with about 2,100 full-time employees worldwide, up from around 1,000 at the beginning of 2011 and about 500 at the beginning of 2010.
Worldwide Membership
- 161m professionals around the world as of March 31, 2012
- 44m+ members in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) as of February 17, 2012
- 34m+ members in Europe as of February 17, 2012
- 9m+ members in the UK as of April 2, 2012
- 3m+ members in France as of November 29, 2011
- 3m+ members in the Netherlands as of December 6, 2011
- 2m+ members in Italy
- 2m+ members in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland)
- 3m+ members in Spain as of March 27, 2012
- 1m+ members in Belgium as of September 22, 2011
- 1m+ members in Sweden as of June 20, 2012
- 1m+ members in Turkey as of February 10, 2012
- 25m+ members in Asia and the Pacific as of January 29, 2012
- 15m+ members in India as of May 29, 2012
- 4m+ members in Southeast Asia as of January 29, 2012
- 1m+ members in Indonesia as of February 21, 2012
- 1m+ members in the Philippines as of March 12, 2012
- 5m+ members in Canada as of January 19, 2012
- 8m+ members in Brazil as of May 3, 2012
- 3m+ members in Australia as of March 12, 2012
- As of March 31, 2012, students and recent college graduates are the fastest-growing demographic on LinkedIn
LinkedIn and Business
- As of March 31, 2012, LinkedIn counts executives from all 2011 Fortune 500 companies as members; its corporate hiring solutions are used by 82 of the Fortune 100 companies.
- More than 2 million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages.
- LinkedIn represents a valuable demographic for marketers with an affluent & influential membership.
- More than 60,000 developers are using LinkedIn APIs to create innovative tools and services for professionals, averaging over two billion API calls per month as of March 31, 2012.
- As of March 31, 2012, there are more than 400,000 unique domains actively using the LinkedIn Share button on their sites to send content into the LinkedIn platform.
- LinkedIn members are sharing insights and knowledge in more than one million LinkedIn Groups.
- In the last week of March 2012, 22 percent of unique visiting members came from mobile devices.
- As of March 31, 2012, hundreds of thousands of job applications have been submitted using Apply With LinkedIn.
LinkedIn Financial Metrics
2012 Quarter 1
2012 Quarter 1
- Total revenue advanced 101 percent year on year to $188.5 million. This was the seventh straight quarter in which LinkedIn's revenues have at least doubled over the prior year.
- Hiring Solutions revenue was $102.6 million, increasing 121 percent compared to the year ago period. In the quarter, hiring solutions comprised 54 percent of total revenues compared to 49 percent last year. At the end of March 2012, there were over 10,400 enterprises under contract for hiring solutions.
- Marketing Solutions revenue was $48.0 million, increasing 73 percent compared to the prior year.
- Premium Subscriptions revenues ended the quarter at $37.9 million, up 91 percent year-over-year.
- According to comScore, unique visitors (including members and non-members) averaged 102.5 million in the first quarter of 2012. In March 2012, LinkedIn ranked as the 31st most-visited website worldwide, according to comScore. ComScore measured 9.4 billion page views in the first quarter.
Source: http://press.linkedin.com/about
LinkedIn Confirms Account Passwords Hacked
On Wednesday, LinkedIn confirmed that at least some passwords compromised
in a major security breach correspond to LinkedIn accounts.
Vicente Silveira, Director at LinkedIn, confirmed the hack on the
company's blog Wednesday afternoon and outlined steps that LinkedIn is
taking to deal with the situation. He wrote that those with compromised
passwords will notice that their LinkedIn account password is no longer
valid.
Silveira added that owners of compromised accounts will receive an
email from LinkedIn with instructions on how to reset their passwords.
These owners then will get a second email from LinkedIn customer support
that explains the situation at greater length.
Silveira also apologized to those affected, saying LinkedIn takes the security of members very seriously.
The business-focused social network had 161 million users worldwide as of March 31.
Read the full story from PCWorld's blog by clicking here...
LinkedIn's iPhone App Sparks Latest Privacy Controversy Over Mobile Devices
Gerald Smith of the Huffington Post wrote an interesting article the LinkedIn app for the iPhone/iPad and security breaches. Are you really safe using this mobile app?
LinkedIn's iPhone App Sparks Latest Privacy Controversy Over Mobile Devices
Security researchers have discovered a feature on LinkedIn's iPhone
and iPad app that sends detailed information from users' calendars to
the company's servers without their knowledge or consent.
If iPhone users "opt-in" to the app's calendar feature, the app
automatically sends all of users' calendar entries within a five-day
time frame to LinkedIn's servers, researchers say. This can include the
subject, time and location of meetings as well as the names and email
addresses of the meeting organizer and attendees. It can also include
meeting notes, "which tend to contain highly sensitive information such
as conference call details and passcodes," Yair Amit and Adi Sharabani,
researchers at Skycure Security, said in a blog post
Tuesday. As an example, they said users may create a "financial
results" meeting on their calendar and it would be sent to LinkedIn's
servers. Read more...
A Blog About Blogging...
This is my first time creating a blog and I'm sure the first time for most of my classmates. It can see a bit overwhelming at first, but guess what I've found? A blog about blogging... Picture that! Click here for the blog: TIPS FOR NEW BLOGGERS
Download the LinkedIn iPhone App
Learn how to download LinkedIn to your iPhone and have instant access to all your professional contacts!
Click here to get your LinkedIn app for the iPhone!
Click here to get your LinkedIn app for the iPhone!
The Pros and Cons of Joining LinkedIn
Yes, yes, yes... This social media tool is more for professional use than personal, BUT
is LinkedIn all it's cracked up to be? Check out these opinion articles and you decide!
A Brief History of Social Media
Did you know the first email was sent in 1971? Check out my classmate Matt's blog about Facebook to see an interesting article on the history of social media!
Matt's Blog - Brief History of Social Media
Matt's Blog - Brief History of Social Media
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