[/caption] Google “Reid Hoffman” and you might be surprised to discover that not only is he the CEO and founder of LinkedIn, but he is on the Board of Directors for Kiva.org. Not surprisingly, Hoffman was named as one of the “Top 50 People Who Matter” by CNN Money.  It’s not his [...]

Currently, there are a limitted number of LinkedIn applications, some of which include a reading list by Amazon, blog linking applications, file/document collaborating applications, slideshow applications, as well as a couple others.  There may be a benefit to using these applications, but how would you use them to make your LinkedIn profile more appealing. There are [...]

I gathered some tips and ways to take your LinkedIn profile up a level. Here are a few of them… 1.  Change the standard URL from linkedin.com/in/13?3a&3d  to a “vanity URL” so instead change it to this style: linkedin.com/in/blakeimeson This will allow you to rank for your name in the SERPs. 2. Use keywords you want [...]

In today’s age, there seems to be such a large desire to be able to communicate with anyone at the drop of a hat. With facebook taking over the younger generations, this leaves older folk wanting something for themselves. Of course why would they want something that merely serves as a form of communication though, [...]

Business professionals are starting to turn to LinkedIn for networking and other business needs.  But how did LinkedIn start, and what were some of the goals of founder Reid Hoffman? According to an interview conducted by Nathan C. Kaiser, Hoffman had previously started a company called SocialNet, which was a dating, professional networking, activity, and roommate [...]

In his book, Effective Networking, Michael Hughes says the first five seconds of meeting someone new is the time when each party forms the most important perception about the other. The first impression is crucial to successful negotiating, interviewing, and networking. What would you do differently to make your first impression a good one? You can make [...]

As I was researching LinkedIn, I stumbled upon an interview with Konstantin Guericke, the co-founder of LinkedIn, in which he made two very interesting points, one which connected them to Facebook and one which distanced them from Facebook. Facebook and LinkedIn, unlike other social networks, are designed to be an extension of an already existing relationship.  [...]

With the increased interest in the numerous Social Medias over the past five years, you have to ask who is using them. Where demographics are produced for every site average age is what I will be discussing. Below are the top social media’s and the average age of the users. Xanga – 15      Facebook – 27       [...]

  LinkedIn hit the nail on the head for a social media site that really is useful.  As a new user to linked in, i dont know alot of what it does but it is definately a site that i will be familiarizing myself with and using.   LinkedIn is a professional social media site that is geared [...]

For any company and new venture, success is a combination of a various factors including choosing the right target market with the right product at the right time. At the center of these factors is the ability for their relationship with each other to produce a profitable and successful revenue model. A perfect storm of factors [...]