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Watch LinkedIn Grow [pics]

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Every Cinco de Mayo LinkedIn celebrates its anniversary. Back in May 5th, 2003, the LinkedIn network started with just 10 people — the founding employees connected to each other. LinkedIn currently has over 1,000 employees in 12 offices around the world, including London, Paris, Sydney, and Mumbai.

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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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Lee Odden on Getting the Most Out of Influencer Marketing

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As an influencer himself, with over 130,000 followers on LinkedIn and 105.6K Cited by the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Forbes for his marketing expertise, Lee has blogged about marketing since 2003 and has given 250+ presentations in 18 countries on best practices in B2B marketing.

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LinkedIn, Social Media And Bubbles

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Late last week, LinkedIn became the biggest U.S. 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? ) The big question is: is LinkedIn just hype or is this the real deal? I joined LinkedIn very early on.

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Common Social Media Questions and Answers All Marketers Should Know

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We put the question to our LinkedIn community and based on the responses one thing is clear: There’s a lot of people out there who don’t know what social media marketers do. How do I update my LinkedIn photo? Here’s a chronological timeline of the founding dates of Facebook and other platforms: LinkedIn: May 5, 2003.

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