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LinkedIn: An Undervalued Marketing Platform

  • April 12th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

As a communications tool, LinkedIn offers individuals and companies multiple opportunities to engage specific groups with relevant content. On the consumer side, these benefits have an established record of success: the size of the audience – which numbers more than 100 million members worldwide – confirms the importance of LinkedIn as an effective medium for finding jobs, networking with peers,… Read more

LinkedIn Today Offers Professional Social News

  • March 22nd, 2011 by Cijo Abraham Mani

LinkedIn launches its social news product for professionals LinkedIn Today. The main objective of this product is to make professionals know top stories from their network and industry.
The Linkedin Today webpage has different categories to meet the professional interests of Linkedin users. P
rofessionals from different industry can get the latest trending topics and news. The professional social news… Read more

Most Promising Social Media Startups: What to Expect in 2011

  • February 1st, 2011 by SEM Contributor

Despite the hype, this year’s best social networking opportunities for designers are still the classics. Thanks to a dash of mobile device innovation, your favorite networking sites have become even stronger. Here are five key pillars for your social networking repertoire in 2011.

1. Instagram: Photos, Faster

For designers, networking is often a matter of sharing your vision. With Instagram, sharing… Read more

How Important is a LinkedIn Profile for a Company?

  • January 24th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

Social Media continues to grow and become more important for business. This is not an assertion but a fact. Consumers continue to head for social media sites in their droves, and marketers are recognizing the importance of attracting and keeping those users. One of the most important challenges that face today’s companies is how to optimist their LinkedIn accounts.… Read more

LinkedIn Gives Away Advertising Credits

  • January 10th, 2011 by Damian Davila

The professional networking site, LinkedIn, is known for developing effective email marketing campaigns to promote its premium memberships to its subscribers. Below you can find an example of one of its campaigns sent out on August 3rd, 2010
However for the first time on January 6, 2011, LinkedIn tried to promote its advertising platform, LinkedIn DirectAds to its subscribers through… Read more

Baby Boomer, Social Media and Christmas Time by Peter and Roberta Budvietas

  • January 6th, 2011 by Roberta Budvietas

One would think that social media would make tracking down relatives, friends and colleagues easier, especially when you know that they are on that particular circuit. But is it?
In the lead-up to Christmas, I tried to track down some of my family.
Now, neither my married nor my maiden names are common. We’re not Smith or Jones or Chan. … Read more

The Best Social Media Sites to Increase the Exposure of Your Business

  • November 24th, 2010 by SEM Contributor

If you want to make social media work for your business, the only real blueprint for success is to be patient, creative, and open to anything. Social media success isn’t an exact science, but anyone looking to improve their visibility should look into these top social media sites for business.
Twitter
If you are looking to raise your business’… Read more

Twitter Finally Gets Friendlier

  • November 23rd, 2010 by Tisha Tolar

The new ‘People’ tab added to Twitter is meant to make finding your friends that much easier. The feature is being tested. You can find the tab next to the Home and Profile tabs on the site’s home page.
Twitter will now offer suggestions for you to locate friends. You can also browse other users by their interests or… Read more

LinkedIn Signal – The Signal that Will Change Information Sharing among Professionals

  • November 19th, 2010 by Cijo Abraham Mani

The latest Signal interface from LinkedIn offers a new way for professionals to share information and news. It is an effective way to filter status updates from your professional connections. The Signal interface is in its beta stage and anyone can join the same through http://www.linkedin.com/signal/ URL using their LinkedIn username and password.
LinkedIn’s Estaban Kozak wrote on the company… Read more

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn – The Social Media Powerhouses

  • November 10th, 2010 by SEM Contributor

The use of the world of online social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn is now inevitable if you want to conveniently connect with others, perform any type of online business, or to simply develop relationships with school or college mates or relatives.
Facebook was created as a social association service, specifically for college students in February 2004… Read more