Posts Tagged ‘LinkedIn’

It appears LinkedIn is ready to expand rapidly in Latin American and has selected Osvaldo Barbosa de Oliveira to head the LinkedIn Brazil operations. He will focus on a campaign to lead an increase of awareness and adoption of LinkedIn in the Latino country, with efforts aimed at user engagement, general operations, strategic partnerships, sales and marketing.

LinkedIn even went so far as to release the top 10 buzzwords that are overused by professionals in the U.S. If you look over the list, you will see a common denominator – each buzzword is not specific enough – too generalized.

LinkedIn announced a 3.0 update for its business card processing app for the iPhone. The app’s main function is to take a photo of business card and then convert the information on the card into contacts.

The infographic shows the exact numbers and percentages of professionals accessing social media during their working hours according to a survey conducted by British job site Reed.

The infographic below offers applicable information on how to build links, which will add to our overall social media marketing plan.

LinkedIn continues to dominate the professional business end of social networking. The other networks can be viewed as social playgrounds: a bad move on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ will only cost you some trouble with your friends.  So how should you behave on LinkedIn? The following etiquette tips for the platform should help a professional keep [...]

The user base increased more than 60% this year, plus the unique visitors increased significantly as well. The overall revenue doubled, and the company’s Hiring Solutions made up over 50% of LinkedIn’s quarterly revenue.

When we think of a professional social networking, LinkedIn comes to mind because it is dedicated to business people worldwide. LinkedIn has over 100 million members. CEO Jeff Weiner proclaimed, “We’re now growing at roughly one million new LinkedIn members every week, the equivalent of a professional joining the site at faster than one member [...]

Facebook will partner up with the U.S. Labor Department to help users who are unemployed find jobs. The social networking site has over 800 million users, and that would certainly amount to a lot of professional networking.

LinkedIn will be launching a new service called Talent Pipeline that focuses on helping job recruiters find and place job seekers.