It’s been three weeks since LinkedIn agreed to pay $90 million to buy Pulse, and now the social news app has introduced features to allow content sharing to LinkedIn’s business-focused social network, which rolled out to its Android app today. Users of Pulse for Android can now share articles to LinkedIn from inside ...
LinkedIn Brings Radical Changes to Profiles
on 5.1.13
LinkedIn has made a radical change to the way in which users can express their work and achievements throughout their profile page, by adding support for multimedia content including images, videos and presentations. The redesigned profile pages from last October are already rather striking, with larger profile images and ...
LinkedIn Buys Pulse Newsreader for $90 Million
on 4.12.13
LinkedIn announced on Thursday it has acquired mobile news aggregation startup Pulse, as Kara Swisher reported last month that it would, signaling another step by the massive professional network toward becoming an online content powerhouse. It’s a big buy for LinkedIn, costing a cool $90 million, according to the ...
Report: LinkedIn to Buy News Reading App Pulse
on 3.12.13
LinkedIn is close to acquiring Pulse, a popular news reading app, for as much as $100 million, according to a new report. Citing unnamed sources, AllThingsD reported that Pulse had been in acquisition talks with several big companies, including Yahoo and Microsoft, but that LinkedIn won out. The publication has since heard ...
The Can’t-Miss Social Media Trends For 2013
on 11.29.12
Will Facebook continue its reign atop the social hierarchy? Will businesses get better returns on their social media investment? Will your CEO finally learn to tweet? Here’s a look at the biggest social media trends set to unfold in the year ahead. Mobile social media usage continues to soar: In September, Facebook made a ...
Using Google’s 70-20-10 Rule to Manage Your Job Search
on 10.22.12
(This content was originally posted on MENGonline.) I read a great quote from Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin in an old Fortune article: “About 70% try to work on the core efforts of the company… about 20% goes to adjacent areas and expansion, and for the 10%, anything goes.” Google has been ...
Redesigned LinkedIn Brand Pages Are Now Available to All Companies
on 10.4.12
LinkedIn announced Thursday that it is rolling out its recently revamped brand pages to all the companies on the social network. In early September, LinkedIn redesigned its company pages in an effort to ramp up engagement between job hunters and businesses on the social network. The new pages feature a large cover photo at ...
One month in, App.net has 20,000 active users, with 250 of them accounting for half the posts
on 9.7.12
App.net, the subscription-based, ad-free Twitter alternative that is now fully funded and ready for extensive testing (you can find TNW’s profile here), is off to a relatively sluggish start. Diego Basch, currently ‘in between jobs’ after selling his company IndexTank to LinkedIn and briefly serving as the company’s ...
What’s Your Job Magnet?
on 9.4.12
(This content was originally posted on MENGonline.) Looking for a job today requires having a “job magnet” for both inbound and outbound marketing. A job magnet helps: Someone find you with a job or project that fits your skills, and You make a strong connection with the recruiter and hiring ...
Shelly Palmer Radio Report – August 15, 2012
on 8.15.12
If you use Klout, the online service that measures your social media influence, you may have noticed a big change in your score this week. That’s because it has finally made some much-needed changes to its analytics. Since it became popular, the company has taken a lot of heat for the way it measures its users ...
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