All About LinkedIn

You may have noticed that we’ve been on a mission to simplify LinkedIn. We hope you’re enjoying a simpler and easier, yet elegant and engaging experience across your mobile and desktop experiences.

From our humble beginnings in a living room in Palo Alto to today’s 26 offices around the world, LinkedIn has become a global destination for more than 225 million professionals around the world.

LinkedIn is the preferred social networking site for recruiters, according to people at Masters in Human Resources.

Have you ever wished for a personal assistant who reminds you when your colleagues are celebrating new jobs or birthdays? Or have you wanted to quickly pull up the last conversations you had with people before you head out to meet them?

LinkedIn just released completely redesigned versions of its iPhone and Android apps.

 

As part of the redesign, we are introducing a new personalized navigation experience to help members explore new functionality and quickly get to the areas they access the most. In this post, I'll give you a brief idea of how we use LinkedIn's Hadoop infrastructure to power personalized navigation recommendations.

LinkedIn is more than your online résumé. Sure, it has your work experience, but it can be so much more. Treat the website like an online portfolio. It is where someone can go to see what you've accomplished. Better yet, put on your marketing hat and convert your LinkedIn profile into a multimedia advertising campaign.

A little while back, we published a blog that instructed you how to write a great LinkedIn profile. As we discussed then, LinkedIn has become a huge presence in the social media world. It has also influenced the hiring process of many, many companies. LinkedIn is a way for companies to find professional job candidates who have laid out their skill sets, talents, and employment history for the world to see.

Our mobile audience has greatly evolved over the past year. Today, our mobile professionals span across the globe and represent a broad spectrum, from executives to young professionals and from road warriors to desk ninjas.

Tucked behind your professional, yet pretty, profile picture, the descriptions of all your past jobs, and that column of "People You May Know" is a section of LinkedIn that most people have never heard of, let alone seen.

A few months ago, we had the pleasure of announcing the Best LinkedIn Company Pages of 2012. Since then, we’ve heard from a lot of you asking for tips on how

We believe LinkedIn can be the definitive professional publishing platform – where all professionals come to consume content and where publishers come to share their content. Millions of professionals are already starting their day on LinkedIn to glean the professional insights and knowledge they need to make them great at their jobs. We believe we can help all professionals make smarter and more informed business decisions leveraging all the great business knowledge flowing through LinkedIn in the form of news, Influencer posts, industry updates, discussions, comments and more.

 

Pulse is a perfect complement to this vision. Pulse’s core value proposition is to help foster informed discussions that spark the decisions shaping the world around us through news and information.

As one of LinkedIn’s Experts serving as a Moderator for the Job Seeker Premium Group, I offer this advice to executive and professional job seekers on how to optimize the use of LinkedIn’s InMail feature and increase the likelihood that your InMail will receive a response.

 

LinkedIn now boasts more than 200 million users.

We know that seven million of those are Canadian. But LinkedIn doesn't really break down stats beyond that. 20% of Canadians use the professionally oriented social networking site, but what do we really know about these members? Not a whole lot.

 

Edmonton's FixedSocial decided to change that. The digital marketing consultancy broke down a bunch of data on Canadian users to provide us with one of a comprehensive look at LinkedIn members in Canada, building a custom infographic exclusively for Techvibes.

We want to make it easier for you to stay on top of the news and insights you need to be great at what you do.

Wow, what a difference a decade makes! As LinkedIn celebrates its 10-year anniversary in May, we're taking the chance to look back on the last 10 years -- and the next.

Here's the problem:

 

The buying environment has dramatically changed.  Most sales forces, however, have failed to adapt – especially at the Rep level.  It may be 2 years, it may be 5 before they are unemployed. It will be because of obsolescence – a failure to evolve with the market. We always see some Reps get left behind because they didn’t evolve. It didn’t matter how much training or communication they received – they were simply “old dogs that couldn’t learn new tricks.”

It's time for a brand spankin' new edition of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series where we snoop around inside the parts of hot tech companies that are typically for employees only.

People look you up after they meet you. So be mindful of your networkso says LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman.

More than 2.6 million companies have LinkedIn pages. You should get started today leveraging the power of LinkedIn's more than 200 million member audience.

If you thought connecting with people you don't know on LinkedIn is the only thing you can do to get your account suspended, think again!

The number one mistake you are making with LinkedIn is the generic use of LinkedIn invitations – invitations and responses to invitations. If you are not leveraging this feature, then you are leaving ‘relationship currency’ on the table. Using LinkedIn invitations is the best way to start, revive or expand your business connections to help you build your social brand.

Last week, LinkedIn announced its acquisition of Pulse as part of its long-term strategy to become an essential content platform for business people.

Sure, it may not feel like it just yet, but spring is here. As you tackle spring cleaning in your home, take a closer look at your LinkedIn profile as well.

Last week, LinkedIn introduced the mention feature, allowing the social media giant to become a bit more social. The feature, pretty much identical to Facebook's and Twitter's mention, is a great way for users to engage with other users. But for the professionals looking to start taking advantage of this feature, I would highly recommend exercising caution.