Archive for April, 2007

Linked Intelligence and 5 More Blogs Join b5media Business Channel

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Hooray! It’s official! Linked Intelligence is now a full-fledged b5media blog, along with five others that also launched today in the business channel:
Behind the Buzz:
Advertising executive Rachel Clarke shares tips, information, and news about the latest and most successful branding/marketing strategies and events.
Buzz Networker:
MySpace sensation Kevin Palmer shares his tips, advice, and know how relating [...]

Connection Browsing and Reciprocity

Monday, April 30th, 2007

One LinkedIn feature that has been the subject of some debate is the Connections Browse feature. In a nutshell, Connections Browse allows you to let your immediate connections see your list of immediate connections. LinkedIn describes it in more depth as follows:

Browsing Your Network
You can now get a better feeling for who is closest [...]

Seeking Prizes for LinkedIn Group Writing Project

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Next week I’m going to be organizing a group blogging project around LinkedIn. For those of you not familiar with what a group blogging project is, check out:

Lists Group Writing Project
Blog Goals Group Writing Project

There is a very specific theme, a very specific goal, and I expect that the end result will become a [...]

LinkedIn Launches Corporate Blog

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

We all knew it had to happen sooner or later. LinkedIn has finally launched their official LinkedIn Blog. The blog will be run by blogger Mario Sundar, who came on at LinkedIn in March as their Community Evangelist. In addition to running the LinkedIn blog, Mario is also the main voice of LinkedIn in the [...]

LinkedIn Reaches 10 Million Users

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

LinkedIn issued a press release yesterday announcing that they have finally topped the 10 million member mark. According to the release:
The LinkedIn network is currently growing at a rate of over 130,000 members a week, with 14 new members joining each minute.

With 10 million members, the LinkedIn network is already bigger than the entire professional [...]

LinkedIn Service Center Opens in Omaha

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

As with many growing web companies, one of the issues that has plagued LinkedIn has been providing timely response to customer service requests. For at least the past year, that has been clearly the most common complaints voiced by users on the various LinkedIn-related Yahoo! Groups.
LinkedIn users got their first glimmer of hope of some [...]

Funny LinkedIn Followup

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

I truly laughed out loud when I read this today…
As a little bit of setup, I’ve been working on a deal with this company for several months. Round and round, on and off, you know how it goes. Well, it got handed off internally at their company to yet another person — someone whose name [...]

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