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LinkedIn Can Be One of Your Most Valuable Traffic Sources

LinkedIn is often discussed as a powerful social networking tool, particularly for business professionals, employers, and jobseekers. What is not discussed as frequently is the site’s ability to simply drive traffic to your site. We talked to entrepreneur Lewis Howes (who claims that LinkedIn is one of the top traffic sources to his blogs) about how powerful LinkedIn can be for driving traffic....

Social Media and Email Continue to Get Cozy

Update: Microsoft also reportedly has deals in place with Facebok and MySpace which will see these social networks integrated with Outlook as well. Original Article: Email and social media continue to get closer together in a variety of ways. Google launched Google Buzz in Gmail, Mozilla has Raindrop, and Facebook is said to be working on its own web mail service. MySpace already created...

LinkedIn Greets 60 Millionth Member

LinkedIn is getting rather large.  Yesterday evening, the network’s vice president of marketing announced on Twitter that it had hit a milestone in terms of users, attracting its 60 millionth member. LinkedIn had just 55 million members as of December 17th, so this new declaration means it’s grown by a little more than nine percent in less than two months (which translates to a rate...

LinkedIn Allows Users To Edit Profile Layouts

It’s no secret that most people like having a measure of control, and today, LinkedIn gave it to them.  Members of the professional network can now rearrange their profiles’ sections in order to highlight whatever parts of their resumes make them proudest. Aaron Bronzan, an associate product manager, explained the change on the LinkedIn Blog.  He wrote, "You will notice that...

As Companies Relax on Social Media, Threats Increase

Even as social media has grown to be a much more widely accepted form of communication among businesses over the years, there is still plenty of data out there depicting the flaws and setbacks that can occur when social networks are used in the business environment. Just as with email or web surfing in general, there are security concerns, and a new report (pdf) from security firm Sophos claims that...

Using Social Media To Get Work

If you prefer to live in the real world you will agree that the job situation in the US is not getting better any time soon. If there are any political pundit types out there who want to duke it out about the what’s and why’s of this situation that’s fine. I’m just stating a fact. This reality of the times we live in is played out all the time across social media channels. In...

LinkedIn to Roll Out Changes to Address Book

LinkedIn has announced some upcoming features related to the way users browse their connections. The company says users will start seeing the changes over the next few weeks. There is a new browse panel, which allows users to browse their connections by their current companies, locations, and industries. They can also search connections by entering their first name, last name, or current company in...

LinkedIn For iPhone 3.0 Launches

Professionals who both own iPhones and are members of LinkedIn are in for a treat.  LinkedIn for iPhone 3.0 has been released, and the new app (which remains free) represents an improvement over the old one in almost every way. The most obvious change comes in the form of a fresh user interface.  Adam Nash, Vice President of Search and Platform Products at LinkedIn, explained in a blog post,...

LinkedIn Launches Faceted Search Feature

LinkedIn has launched a new addition to its People Search Experience. It’s called "Faceted Search". Faceted search allows you to search for a person and narrow that search down by specific "facets" as you go along, in order to quickly find the most relevant profiles possible. Users are presented with categories under the following facets as they search: current company, past...

LinkedIn Launches New Design

Update: LinkedIn is now in the process of rolling out the new design to all users. More from the LinkedIn Blog. Original Article: LinkedIn is testing a new design. Only a select number of users will see it, however. New features include: -  A global navigation bar at the top of the page that provides convenient access to all LinkedIn services. - Simplified local navigation within each...

LinkedIn Celebrates 3 Million Members In The UK

If you didn’t read or somehow couldn’t guess from the title, LinkedIn’s hit a significant milestone, attracting its 3 millionth member in the UK.  This is a very good sign for the networking site that’s focused on connecting people aside from those who see each other at school or parties every week. Indeed, LinkedIn made something of a big deal out of the occasion. ...

Now LinkedIn Will Be Featured in a Lot More Apps

LinkedIn has opened up its platform to developers. It can be accessed at developer.linkedin.com. "Over fifty million users entrust their professional identities and relationships with LinkedIn, helping build LinkedIn into the largest global professional network today," says LinkedIn’ Adam Nash. "However, professionals around the world use a wide variety of applications and Web...

LinkedIn, Microsoft Outlook To Forge Ties

Heavy users of LinkedIn and Microsoft Outlook will soon have to do a lot less tab-toggling.  Microsoft has introduced something called the Outlook Social Connector, and early next year, LinkedIn will become the first networking site to support it. As you’ll see in a moment, the Outlook Social Connector is an accurately named offering.  A post on the LinkedIn Blog explained that, with...

When Worlds Collide

Well, it’s finally here. Twitter and LinkedIn have decided to combine forces. This is pretty significant, and I know that it’ll make it easier to share job opportunities and other more networking opportunities that are more professional in nature. I won’t bore you with all of the details, but you can now update your LinkedIn status via Twitter, and your Twitter status from LinkedIn....

LinkedIn, Twitter Connect Through Status Updates

LinkedIn has developed a reputation for being a rather sedate, professional site.  Twitter, on the other hand, is at the anything-goes, trend-of-the-minute end of the social networking spectrum.  But last night, the two companies announced a partnership that should see a bit of back-and-forth result. A post on the LinkedIn Blog explained, "When you set your status on LinkedIn you can...