LinkedIn
What is LinkedIn? LinkedIn is one of the largest, on-line, professional social networking sites. I use many on-line sites to promote my work and add links to my latest blog posts. Almost everyone is familiar with sites such as Twitter and Facebook, but I also found quite a few of my friends using LinkedIn.
I had signed up for a LinkedIn profile a few years ago but never really used the site much. I started looking for a new job a couple of months ago, and noticed that quite a few of my writing and marketing acquaintances have a LinkedIn profile. I had been putting off updating my LinkedIn profile until earlier today when I was applying for a job on-line and the job site wanted to use my LinkedIn profile. So I popped right over to the website to update all my LinkedIn information.
A Few LinkedIn Facts
- LinkedIn started out in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman in 2002.
- The site officially launched on May 5, 2003. At the end of the first month in operation, LinkedIn had a total of 4,500 members in the network.
- As of December 31, 2011 (the end of the fourth quarter), professionals are signing up to join LinkedIn at a rate that is faster than two new members per second.
- The company is publicly held and has a diversified business model with revenues coming from hiring solutions, marketing solutions and premium subscriptions.
- As of February 9, 2012, LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 150 million members in over 200 countries and territories.
- Sixty percent of LinkedIn members are located outside of the United States, as of December 31, 2011.
- LinkedIn members did nearly 4.2 billion professionally-oriented searches on the platform in 2011.
- As of February 9, 2012, LinkedIn counts executives from all 2011 Fortune 500 companies as members; its corporate hiring solutions are used by 82 of the Fortune 100 companies.
- More than 2 million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages.
- LinkedIn represents a valuable demographic for marketers with an affluent & influential membership.
- As of December 31, 2011, hundreds of thousands of job applications have been submitted using Apply With LinkedIn.
Additional Information
Here is some of the information that you can list on your LinkedIn profile:
- Current jobs
- Past jobs
- Summary, which can be used to post your resume
- Experience
- Education
- Skills & Expertise
- Personal information
Lynn Smythe's LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/lynnsmythe
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