LinkedIn celebrates 200 million members: a look at the social media network
LinkedIn reached a milestone this month. The third largest social media network announced that it had reached the 200 million member mark. After launching in 2003, it has taken the social network a decade to reach the 200 million mark. To celebrate the milestone, the network shared some interesting stats, looking at where its members are based, what they do and who has the largest networks. In a blog post, LinkedIn senior vice president of products and user experien
read moreLinkedIn commits social media faux pas: Encourages boastful updates
After reaching a 200 million member milestone this week, social media network LinkedIn sent emails to its members thanking them for the role they played in growing the platform. Some members were also sent emails congratulating them for having the top 1% and 5% most viewed profiles. On the face of it, this seems like a clever strategy, appealing to the vanity of LinkedIn users. However, LinkedIn was criticised for encouraging users to tweet this information. By clic
read moreLinkedIn launches a new look for profiles
LinkedIn recently revamped its home feeds and introduced endorsements. Now it looks like LinkedIn profiles will soon follow suit. This week LinkedIn gave a sneak peek of the new design for personal profiles. The new profile is aimed at simplification and aims to help users grow their networks with more insight. Aaron Bronzan, a product manager wrote on the LinkedIn Blog that the profiles will be rolled out over the next few months. The professional networking site w
read moreLinkedIn has launched endorsements
LinkedIn has officially launched their new “Endorsements” feature, which is the business networking version of Facebook’s Like or Google’s +1. The feature has been launched to English members in Australia, the US, New Zealand and India, but it will available to more countries and languages within the next few weeks. The idea behind LinkedIn Endorsements is that you can endorse a person’s experience and skills (which kind of makes it like Klout’s +K featu
read moreTwitter dumps LinkedIn… and Instagram is next
In the past, we could update our LinkedIn profiles via our Twitter accounts by simply linking the two accounts and including a LinkedIn hashtag at the end of our tweets. Last month, Twitter put a stop to that, forcing users to go to Twitter to see and interact with tweets. While many people were unhappy about this new development, it doesn’t look like Twitter is backing down. Towards the end of July, Twitter started to disable the ability of Instagram users to fin
read moreLinkedIn Stats for South Africa – 2011
LinkedIn has now grown to over 135 million members worldwide since inception. We did some research on what the stats look like for South Africa and put together this infographic. If you were a sceptic about using LinkedIn before, do these stats change your mind at all?
read moreHow to Generate Leads Using LinkedIn
LinkedIn has grown to include more than 100 million users worldwide. It is based on the principle that every person is connected to one another by no more than six degrees of separation from everybody else. In other words, individuals can connect with one another simply by utilizing their network of contacts. LinkedIn keeps track of who knows whom and provides a means to connect people based on professional expertise, needs, and interests. Simply having a Link
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