Tag Archives: LinkedIn

LinkedIn Tuesday announced a major milestone: 100 million users are now on the professional networking site. While it’s still no match for Facebook’s 700 million community, it’s no mean achievement considering the fact that LinkedIn is more a professional network rather than a pure social network. More than half of LinkedIn professionals – 56 million come from outside the United …

Google’s Social Search experiment has finally come of age. The online search giant yesterday announced that Social Search results will no longer be relegated to the bottom of Google search pages. Instead, relevant posts from the social media accounts of a user’s friends will now be integrated into the list of results. The social search results include activity on Flickr, …

There is little doubt that social media has conquered the web in the last few years. So, which is the world’s most popular social network – Facebook or Twitter? The battle of supremacy between world’s social networks clearly looks to be two-horse race at the moment. Will the scenario change next year or perhaps even a couple of years from …

It’s fair to say that social media has changed the business landscape for good. Having a social media presence for a business is increasingly becoming the norm, rather than being an exception. Social web has well and truly arrived and it’s not just the large scale enterprises, SMEs are hopping on to the social media bandwagon to connect with their …

Though several businesses look at social media as an innovative means for advertising, not all advertising agencies are flocking to social media for their next killer campaign. A recent study by RSW/US took a look at the business-to-business social media habits of a variety of ad agencies and reports that nearly 54% of the agencies polled said they never or …

While social media is gaining increasing acceptance amongst small and medium-scale businesses, nearly a third of SMEs are concerned over its security concerns and claim to have experienced malware or virus infection as a result of staff using social media websites. This is one of the many findings reported by Panda’s “1st Annual Social Media Risk Index for Small to …

As a social media and marketing consultant, I happen to meet all sorts of customers ranging from SOHOs (Small Office/Home Office), small businesses, aspiring startups to multinational corporations having a global footprint. What’s the common factor between them? Social Media. The beauty of social media lies in its ubiquity. While I’m not saying that social media is a “one size …

If you thought social media is just popular with the young generation, let me correct you. A recent study titled “Older Adults and Social Media” from Pew Research Center Publications indicates that the 50+ crowd is flocking to social media in huge numbers. While a large majority of these users resort to social media to “stay connected”, a fairly substantial proportion …

A large number of businesses see social media as an advertising and marketing opportunity, primarily due to the mass appeal of popular social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. However, a number of smart businesses have utilized the potential of social media to its true value by extending it far beyond marketing, sales and advertising. While some use social media …

Twitter is ringing in the changes big time these days. First, it opted to cash-in on the popularity of FIFA 2010 World Cup by creating a dedicated Twitter site for the sporting extravaganza. Next, it started tweaking its system in order to improve the overall stability and reduce downtimes. And in its latest move, Twitter is improving the Friends functionality …

LinkedIn is often the forgotten about social network. A lot of people aren’t really sure what to use LinkedIn for, but there are plenty of qualities you should love about the service. Here are five reasons you should think about creating a LinkedIn profile:

LinkedIn, one of the world’s largest business networking sites has released an application ‘LinkedIn for Blackberry’ for RIM’s Blackberry phones that will allow users to stay connected to their professional network while on the move. There’s no doubt whatsoever Blackberry is the leading worldwide business smartphone today, so Blackberry smart phones and LinkedIn are a natural fit as both are …

It’s getting to be quite a social jungle out there, even before the announcement of Google Buzz (which I’ll here on refer to as ‘G-buzz’ for brevity), and that’s a good thing – particularly if you’re an individual or business ever on the lookout to attract new customers and stay connected with existing ones. If social media sites are on …