Though the social professional network now has more that 200 million users, its growth started with a sputtering engine. Reid Hoffman explains how it took off.
LinkedIn's latest TOS updates forbid prostitutes and escort service employees or owners from maintaining profiles on the popular social networking site.
Today the brand “voice” takes a front seat, while the hard sell takes a step back, and artfully communicating to your audience is critical in a feed-based advertising landscape that is here to stay.
It's a social networking site. No, it's a job-placement agency. Actually, it's a media channel. Whatever you call LinkedIn, it's become integral to how we all do business.
The site is beefing up its social media chops by allowing its users to share stories and links with their connections. Add this to yesterday's announcement that rich media content could be uploaded to LinkedIn accounts and there's no doubt that the site is undergoing a Facebook facelift.
As LinkedIn courts daily users, its new tool aggregates information from your address book, email, and calendar. But there's a big list of contacts missing--users still can't pull in data from other social networks, like Facebook.
