Stacy DeBroff, founder of the parent-advice site MomCentral.com, says she is constantly calling younger workers into her office for help with social networking.
A twentysomething staffer once showed her an easy way to import her email contacts into her LinkedIn account, instantly adding hundreds of new connections to her profile on the professional-networking site.
When it comes to social-networking sites, women are more plugged in than men, according to data analysis by Brian Solis, president of Silicon Valley public-relations firm Future Works.
Mr. Solis used Google Ad Planner to determine the gender breakdown of users signed up for the most popular social-networking sites and found that in most cases, women outnumbered men. “The point of interest that’s worth review and discussion is that in social media, women rule,” he wrote.
Launched just last week, Learn That Name is a new iPhone application with an award already under its belt–from a Microsoft event.
Eric Koester, a 32-year-old attorney at Cooley Godward Kronish, won at the recent Startup Weekend on Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus, for the app.
Let no good deed go unpunished.
Mom may have told you not to say anything if you can’t say something nice. A lawyer who represents companies in human-relations cases said you better not say anything nice either–at least not on LinkedIn or other social-networking sites.
Recurring outages on major networking sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn, along with incidents where Twitter members were mysteriously dropped for days at a time, have led many people to challenge the centralized control exerted by companies running social networks.
Facebook may be the stickiest social network here in the U.S.–but LinkedIn is thought to be the default network for a “professional” profile and job history. So why are more employers using Facebook to do background checks on potential new hires than LinkedIn?
Facebook said it will fight a countersuit filed by Power.com, saying the company puts Facebook’s member information at risk.
Power.com bills itself as a “social inter-networking site,” in which users can sign on to their other social accounts, such as Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace. It has some 8 million users.
It was the beginning of the online revolution, in 1993.
While Twitter can be about the mundane details of people’s lives, for the most part, it’s about people connecting with others who have similar interests. Since I tend to follow people who are also interested in marketing and social media, it is a great way to share information on topics relevant to us.
There’s been buzz about Apple’s interest in microprocessor designers ever since the company bought the Silicon Valley startup P.A. Semi last year. But there’s ample evidence that the company’s hiring of chip-heads started much earlier, and is continuing. The question: what is Apple going to do with these guys?
There are two places most of today’s laid-off executives are heading: to job-search sites to see what other opportunities are out there and to networking sites in hopes they can reconnect with–and milk leads from–former colleagues and business contacts. One site, LinkedIn, offers both of those things in one place.
Where everyone else sees economic gloom and doom, Reid Hoffman sees opportunity. As the freshly minted CEO of LinkedIn (and its founder), he is shepherding a moneymaking tech company in battered Silicon Valley. And he anticipates more growth next year. That is no small achievement.
For all the talk about privacy and security, it seems that a lot of people are downright sloppy when it comes to who they provide personal information.
A couple of prime examples this week where large numbers of unsuspecting or naive [people] happily handed over their usernames and passwords to a third party simply because the service looked cool.
LinkedIn, the social-networking site for networking professionals, raised $22.7 million as an extension of a $53 million round of funding completed in June. The company has no debt, growing revenue, and a strong balance sheet. Its membership is growing at the rate of approximately two million members a month. Additional Information: 370 employees. 30 million people have recommended LinkedIn.
I’m not sure whether to call this data portability or just making it easier for social-networking services to spam a user’s contacts. But either way, Microsoft has announced partnerships with LinkedIn, Tagged, Hi5, Bebo and Facebook, to enable Windows Live Messenger users to look for contacts on either of the five social-networking sites and vice versa.
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