How to Get a Job Using Linked In (Video)

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.

By Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large June 18, 2012: 10:25 AM ET

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What's Next for LinkedIn?

What would you expect next from LinkedIn? With 150+ million subscribed memberships, LinkedIn (LNKD) is the biggest professional networking platform in the world. LinkedIn had an average of 118 million registered members in 2011. We expect it to increase to 176 million in 2012. With its user base expanding to 160 million at the end of Q1 itself, LinkedIn seems right on track to achieve that target.
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...

How to Embed Videos in LinkedIn

Here's a video from YouTube to show you how to embed videos into your LinkedIn profile:

5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do on LinkedIn

Check out this great slideshow by Amy-Mae Elliott on her blog at mashable.com:

SLIDESHOW 

 

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. 

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Here is a picture of LinkedIn's old homepage.  My previous blog post show a picture of the new homepage.  Do you agree that it looks more "Facebook-y"?

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.

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