By Scott Allen, on April 6th, 2008 |
No official announcement from LinkedIn yet, but according to his personal blog, Yahoo! Director of User Experience Kevin Bury is leaving Yahoo! and going to LinkedIn:
On April 14th I’ll be starting my new gig as Principal Designer at LinkedIn. I’ve been a huge fan of LinkedIn for years. The potential seems enormous and I think . . .
Read More: LinkedIn Snags Yahoo’s Top UI Designer Kevin Bury
By Scott Allen, on March 31st, 2008 |
In my recent post, Getting to Know the Folks at LinkedIn, I made this statement:
What’s clear to me from my conversations with Steve and Mario, as well as past conversations with Patrick Crane and others, plus looking at the latest new features from LinkedIn, is that the main customers they are listening to right now . . .
Read More: My Apologies to LinkedIn
By Scott Allen, on March 27th, 2008 |
 Since I don’t live in Silicon Valley and don’t attend a lot of tech conferences, I haven’t previously had a chance to meet any of the people at LinkedIn in person. But I attended SXSW a couple  of weeks ago and had the pleasure of meeting Steve Ganz (right), Principal Web Developer at LinkedIn, and Mario Sundar (left), LinkedIn’s Community Evangelist, who you may recognize as the lead blogger on the official LinkedIn blog.
Steve spoke on a panel about using social networks to build your personal brand (summary/commentary at The Email Wars). Mario was on a panel about corporate blogging (afterthoughts from Mario and a great summary from Scott Monty).
I had a chance to visit with each of them after their panel. Besides just getting to know them personally (Steve loves frisbee golf), I also got a little more insight into what’s going on at LinkedIn.
Continue reading Getting to Know the Folks at LinkedIn
By Scott Allen, on March 6th, 2008 |
 The big buzz in social networking last week was that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has finally joined LinkedIn (as an interesting aside, he was previously the most searched-for name on LinkedIn). This seems especially surprising since Microsoft made a substantial investment in Facebook last year.
It all started with a report last month in British tabloid The Sun, which led with this blurb:
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates has had to delete his Facebook account after being hassled by thousands of fans.
Continue reading Bill Gates – LinkedIn In, Facebook Out
By Scott Allen, on February 19th, 2008 |
Educational Value of Social Media
Adam Metz presents the value proposition for social media for educators and some tips for how early adopters can “sell it” to their team. Interesting factoid regarding LinkedIn:
“Education management is one of the top five fastest growing segments on our network,” said LinkedIn’s director of corporate communications, Kay Luo. The “education . . .
Read More: LinkedIn Connections 1-19-2008
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