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10 Tips to Be Successful on LinkedIn

Ari Herzog

LinkedIn launched on May 5, 2003 (on my mother’s birthday) and currently has 277 million members — with two new people creating accounts every second. Here are updated LinkedIn statistics to impress your boss or your mom. This is most important — as 40% of LinkedIn users visit the site every day.

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Linking Up on LinkedIn

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Launched in 2003, LinkedIn is a business-related social networking site. With last month’s LinkedIn stock market launch the company is more talked about than ever. Overview of LinkedIn. At its most basic, LinkedIn’s functions are: People search, keeping in touch, and extending your network. Improve Your Visibility.

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15 Tips To Optimize Your LinkedIn Initiative

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

LinkedIn has enjoyed explosive growth since its debut in 2003. The real question is whether or not you’re making the most of your LinkedIn efforts and networking in general? LinkedIn is so much more than social networking for businesses and business people – it can totally change how you run your business as a whole.

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LinkedIn, Social Media And Bubbles

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Late last week, LinkedIn became the biggest U.S. Internet IPO since Google back in 2004. Beyond the hype (the stock doubled in price on its first day of trading) to confusion ( The Atlantic ran a Blog post titled, Did Bankers Scam LinkedIn Out of Over $130 Million? ) I joined LinkedIn very early on.

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B2B Marketing needs a stronger Why

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Which reminds me of what Eric Schmidt recently said – that every 2 days we create as much information as we did from the beginning of time up to 2003. Which is similar to Google in the sense that we know what and how Google does what it does but we also know their mission is to “index the worlds information&# !

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Later, several other websites such as Classmates.com and Friendster contributed to the development of social networking to help reach our present day scenario, where we see the domination of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Google+ is currently in its introductory phase. The Case Study of a Full Life Cycle.

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Search + Social = Online Reputation

Socialmedia.biz

I have been doing online reputation management (ORM) for clients since 2003. Generally-speaking, the richer the mogul, the more élite the individual, the more likely they’ve tried to keep off Google’s radar, keep out of the index. Google abhors a vacuum. I would probably pony up for their $59.95