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LinkedIn has made another step toward being a serious player in the online media space with the revamping of its news section.The refreshed look on LinkedIn Today sees it take on more of a magazine feel and comes with the introduction of channels, which allow people to follow broader topic areas that cross multiple industries and professional sectors.The sectors covered by the new channels include Your Career, Economy, Social Impact, Big Ideas and Innovation, and Higher Education. Once you ...
The professional networking giant Linkedin has launched ‘LinkedIn Contacts’, a new tool which it says will allow people to maintain smart relationships with their LinkedIn connections and to build relationships with people who they don’t know.The new feature ‘LinkedIn Contacts’ is not yet available to all the users but to a very few as part of the Beta Testing Phase. You could be one of a small group to get it soon, by joining the waiting list. So, what ...
This is interesting. LinkedIn has completely revamped it smartphone apps, following Facebook's lead in abandoning HTML 5 for native efforts.Officially the professional social networking giant unveiled the updates to provide a better experience for its members and to allow them to "quickly discover and engage with the rich professional insights being shared across LinkedIn to help them make smarter decisions from wherever they may be working".And it certainly does that. The new apps look a hell of a lot ...
Professional social networking giant LinkedIn is getting ready to launch a South African presence through partnering up with recruitment software specialist Graylink.Graylink provides web and mobile recruiting software solutions to some of that country's top companies including: ABSA, Capitec, Discovery, Medi-Clinic, Shoprite, Sasol, Telkom and Woolworths.The partnership sees the company become the first official LinkedIn Talent Solutions partner in the South African market as part of the social network's global expansion plan.Andy Lea, LinkedIn Partner Manager EMEA ...
LinkedIn has officially bought the company behind new reading app Pulse for US$90-million, a month after reports emerged that a deal was set to go through.The professional social network has confirmed that it paid US$90-million for the news reader. The vast majority of that US$90-million (around 90%) comes in stock, while the rest is cash.In an official blog post, LinkedIn's senior vice president of products and user experience Deep Nishar, confirmed that the acquisition had been made to ...
I received an email from LinkedIn on 7 February which congratulated me for having one of the top one percent most viewed LinkedIn profiles in 2012. After my initial excitement waned and I got to hear from a whole bunch of other people that they also received the same email, I started thinking about how important the message LinkedIn sent me really was.
Most people create a profile on LinkedIn for a specific reason and these generally revolve around getting ...
So were you one of the roughly 10-million people who got a mail from LinkedIn congratulating you on having one of the top 5% most viewed profiles? Did it make you feel special? Or, as in the case of Diane Truman, editor-in-chief of Zillow, did you find it creepy?I was thoroughly irritated by that mail. It felt very spammy, a blatant attempt to appeal to narcissism, and not entirely credible. If I’m one of the top 5% most viewed ...
If social networks were people then LinkedIn would be the grey-suited accountant sitting at the corner of a party too shy to talk to people. Twitter, of course would be the hipster chick and Facebook would be the jock in the cloakroom talking about his recent conquests.I recently saw a message posted on Facebook that read “Daughter, if you want to be successful in life, ignore the jock and spend time with the nerds in the class”; and it got ...
Engaging and connecting with your target audience is what social media all about. With millions of users across all the social media channels available, the biggest challenge for many businesses is how to get hold of their target audience on the channels that they use. While it may be important to reach a broad group of consumers with your digital marketing strategy, it's just as important to reach consumers that are actually interested in your company and what you stand ...LinkedIn is in rude health. Its Q3 financial results completely demolished analysts expectations. That's no hyperbole, it beat them by 80%.The professional social network, which now has 187-million members, is one of the few not to have fallen prey to post-IPO blues -- up nearly 70% in the year since it went public.Revenue for the third quarter was US$252-million, an increase of 81% compared to US$139.5-million in the third quarter of 2011.Net income for the third quarter ...
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