HOW TO: Do Good on LinkedIn. This series is supported by Toyota Prius and presented by harmonytweets, a Twitter-based platform for filtering conversations around design, sustainability, eco technology and philanthropy. Leverage Twitter to communicate around ideals you care about at harmonytweets.com. Over the last few weeks, we've focused on how you can use the web to do good.
Whether you're using your own blog, Twitter or Facebook — social platforms can be a real catalyst for contributing to social good. With more than 43 million users worldwide, LinkedIn is most frequently used as a way of networking with business colleagues and potential employers and employees. Just because it can be used for personal enrichment doesn't preclude LinkedIn from being used for social good. Check out some of our favorite ways to use LinkedIn to contribute something back. Do you have any other ideas or tips? 1. Last November, LinkedIn launched its Events feature in conjunction with Eventbrite. 2. 3. 4. 5. SCALA Tech Talk. First off, thanks to everyone who attended the first LinkedIn Tech Talk session featuring the creator of SCALA, Martin Odersky, along with Nick Kallen of Twitter and David Pollak of LIFT. We had over 150 attendees at the event although we had originally planned only for 100. In addition to the audience here at Mountain View, we also live streamed the event to over ~1000 viewers, with over 140 of them viewing it live.
We’d also like to thank the following participants for submitting questions that drove the panel discussion: Parag Joshi, Vladimir Bacvanski, Pradeep Pujari, Mark Wong-VanHaren, Peter Simanyi, Aden Davies, Hernan Silberman, and LinkedIn’s Nick Dellamaggiore and Eishay Smith. For those of you who had asked us to keep you posted of similar events in the future, we’ve created a LinkedIn group called Tech Talk Conversations where we’ll announce it first and will continue featuring discussions from LinkedIn’s own engineering community before and after the event. Going from SCALA to scale! Martin Odersky – Creator of SCALA / P. Guy Kawasaki on LinkedIn. LinkedIn, 'facebook for business', with over 35 million users, is a serious networking tool for businesses and professionals alike. Here, start up guru, online marketing legend, Twitter superstar, and New York SES keynote speaker, Guy Kawasaki, introduces us to the power of LinkedIn by showing how to use it to find a job.
Searching for a job can suck if you constrain yourself to the typical tools such as online jobs boards, trade publications, CraigsList, and networking with only your close friends. In these times, you need to use all the weapons that you can, and one that many people don’t — or at least don’t use to its fullest extent, is LinkedIn. LinkedIn has over 35 million members in over 140 industries. Here are ten tips to help use LinkedIn to find a job. Get the word out. Here are two more ways I can help you in your job search. This article originally appeared on Guy's blog. The Art of the Start and How to Drive Your Competition Crazy.