LinkedIn goes deeper into the enterprise with Lotus deal. eLearning Technology. 100 Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn. LinkedIn: The Sky Is Falling (or is it?) | I'm On LinkedIn - Now What??? January 20th, 2009 | by Jason Alba | Over on the Career Resumes blog I just wrote about some of the bad stuff I’m hearing about with regard to LinkedIn. There is a post from Jaculynn Peterson titled LinkedIn’s soon-to-be-missed opportunity, which has some great points. I hear these points continually as people wonder what the heck LinkedIn is thinking. Of course, it’s their business, their model and their responsibility… not ours.
But we have a vested interest as we spend our time deveping our networks and our relationships and our brand on their platform. LinkedIn and The Future of Business Networking - ReadWriteWeb. In the heyday of the Facebook hype (it seems so long ago now!) , Facebook was going to eat LinkedIn’s lunch. Based on recent experience, I don’t think so. I recently had reason to use LinkedIn seriously, using my existing network to tap into a market that I had not previously been exposed to. I had not used LinkedIn since the early days, so this was my first serious update. I have NOT used Facebook seriously. I registered out of curiosity about the phenomenon and found that the only network I could join was based on zip code - and that was useless. If Fred had used LinkedIn, he would have gotten a big response; possibly too big and that is a filtering issue that LinkedIn seems sensitive to.
This is far more efficient than spamming all my contacts with a mass email saying “anybody know anybody in this role at these companies?” LinkedIn Reaches Nearly 80% of My Contacts This also served a bit like a Plaxo update. LinkedIn as Headhunting Tool - Watch Out Monster, Dice! - ReadWriteWeb. I first used LinkedIn for business development and wrote about the experience here. In summary, it is one the best new sales tools since the rolodex - as Alex Iskold noted this week. But like a rolodex, it is only as good as the contacts in it and the skill of the person using it. Recently I have been using it for headhunting. From talking to both Xing and LinkedIn management, I understand that headhunting is the primary use case - at least as a revenue driver for them. First I used LinkedIn to see who I could hire without using a headhunter. Which is why good headhunters will always be in business.
Which it does. This became clear when I spoke to the first headhunter. I asked the next headhunter and his response was “it’s awesome, totally changes the game”. He is right. That saves me the Monster and Dice fees. My proposition to the headhunter who was not using LinkedIn was that he should put his whole proprietary database up on LinkedIn. Image credit: cosmonautirussi. A New Must-Have App For iPhone - ReadWriteWeb. LinkedIn Applications: Your Resume Just Got More Dynamic - ReadWriteWeb. LinkedIn has always served a very specific purpose in the business community: helping you find a new job. That utility came in a variety of flavors: posting your resume, looking through job listings, answering questions in hopes of highlighting your intellect, or getting in touch with former co-workers in hopes of landing a new gig. Up to this point, LinkedIn has remained focused but - apart from those invitations to connect - not especially social or dynamic.
With the launch of the LinkedIn Applications platform, they're hoping to change that by helping "over 30 million professionals on LinkedIn to communicate, collaborate, and share information even better than before. " But they still remain focused on one thing: helping you find a new job. The initial applications on the platform allow users to build a more dynamic and cohesive picture of the types of employees they are - or can be: Today's launch features nine resume-enriching applications: LinkedIn Launches Powerful Events Feature - ReadWriteWeb. What hot events should I attend in my industry? That's a frequently asked question in many professional conversations. LinkedIn today offers a great way to answer that question with the launch of its new Events feature.
LinkedIn Events offers not just event search, but recommendations based on the contents of your profile, sophisticated information about attendees and updates about the events in your LinkedIn update feed. Eight thousand events are already listed and event organizers can ad more. The recommendations are key here. Recommendation is like the search you didn't even know you wanted to do - it's a great way to surface value from noise. Unfortunately the events page is down at press time, but we look forward to its return. We like LinkedIn alot here at ReadWriteWeb (it's one of the primary news sources for our new site about hiring activity) and we think Events is a great addition to the service. Why Does LinkedIn Still Have Facebook Envy? - ReadWriteWeb. Commentary on this week's management changes at LinkedIn implied that a shake-up was needed to make LinkedIn more like Facebook.
As somebody who has used LinkedIn extensively and spoken to many people who have also found it very useful, this is a plea to listen to users and not the Valley cognoscenti. Sure, when Facebook was "valued" at $15 billion, a bit of envy was understandable. But now that we're in the real world... LinkedIn and Your Job Search. What do Microsoft, Ebay, Netflix, and Target have in common? All these companies (and many more) have used LinkedIn to recruit candidates for employment. Kay Luo, (former) Director of Corporate Communications at LinkedIn, explains why, "The main reason that companies are using LinkedIn is to find passive job candidates. Another reason why companies are using LinkedIn, is because referrals from their employees are highly valued because they typically have a higher success rate (hence the popular "employee referral bonuses"). LinkedIn helps companies leverage the networks of their employees.
" How Employers Use LinkedIn One LinkedIn member (who will remain nameless because his company doesn't know he's job seeking) I spoke to received an inquiry less than 24 hours after posting his profile. Steve Goddard obtained his current job through LinkedIn. The recruiter discovered Steve's work history, downloaded the information, circulated it to group managers, and then contacted him. Top 100 Tools: LinkedIn. Weeks 11. Introduction Objectives: Explore the wonderful world of social networking. Get in deep with two of the most popular services (MySpace and Facebook) and touch on some of the others that are out there.
Get a feel for the similarities and differences, and blog about what you think! MySpace and Facebook are particularly popular with “Net Generation” users. An estimated 85% of students in high school and college have at least one profile in at least one of these sites. The central feature of this particular kind of social networking site is the ability to identify a group of friends whose profiles become linked to yours.
Social networking sites give libraries just another option to reach our clientele in new ways. Applications We will all look at the first two. MySpace ( Activities Activity 1: MySpace MySpace is the most trafficked internet site in the US. For this activity, you'll create your own MySpace account. Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour+ Activity 2: Facebook.