LinkedIn

I took advantage of a recent lunch with fellow MENG member Jan Wallen (you can check out her website here), an expert on selling online who literally wrote the book on using LinkedIn, to ask her LinkedIn job search questions relating to how executives should use this social networking site. Following are Jan’s answers to the LinkedIn Continue Reading →

LinkedIn’s Sponsored Jobs listings are getting increased visibility on Monday, with a move that has them now appearing in LinkedIn’s main feed on the member homepage. Before, Sponsored Jobs were only available in the “Jobs You May Be Interested In” module on the homepage, and in emails sent out to subscribers. The move highlights LinkedIn’s Continue Reading →

While there has been quite a lot of discussion about how Facebook may be losing its cachet among younger users who are going elsewhere for their social media kicks, LinkedIn made a bold move to start reaching out itself to this very lucrative, if fickle, audience: LinkedIn is beginning to promote itself to high school Continue Reading →

Just more than a week after Twitter introduced two-step verification, LinkedIn has followed suit. LinkedIn announced in a blog post Friday that users on the social network for professionals now have the option to enable two-step verification via SMS text message to protect their accounts. “All LinkedIn accounts are already protected by a series of Continue Reading →

Less than a month after it introduced multimedia content to users’ profile pages, LinkedIn has rolled out similar functionality for status updates posted from the homepage. Users can now upload images, documents, presentations and other file types to any post that they want to share with their LinkedIn network. The idea is to give users Continue Reading →

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 the app Continue Reading →

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 monochromatic logos for different sections such Continue Reading →

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 company. The app, which collects news Continue Reading →

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 that the deal Continue Reading →

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 monumental–if Continue Reading →