It’s been an extremely busy year at LinkedIn, marked by a continual stream of announcements (product and otherwise) that made it on to our blog (Subscribe to the LinkedIn Blog). We believe a great way to cap off the year would be to pick the 10 most popular blog posts, which gives you a fair sense for the milestones we’ve covered in the past 12 months.
Here are the top 10 LinkedIn stories of 2008!
One of our key focus areas on the blog this past year has been to share with you how different professionals use LinkedIn to advance their career. Here are five videos we picked from a slew of LinkedIn user success stories we featured this year. Feel free to leave a comment on how you’ve used LinkedIn this past year to advance your career:
1. How LinkedIn Referrals can help you find new business and talent
It’s been just a couple of months since we announced the launch of our application platform on Open Social and we felt it’d be a great way to wrap up the year with a list of some of the most popular apps on LinkedIn. A description of each app is followed by a quick demo from creators of the application. Have a favorite app that’s not in the list below? Leave a comment.
1. LinkedIn Company Buzz (Install app)
LinkedIn has grown by leaps and bounds this past year and currently we are adding professionals to our site at the rate of one user per second.
Behind the scenes, there are several dedicated teams of highly skilled people with (an unusually high tolerance for sleep deprivation), and a varied array of skills in areas such as capacity planning, network and server architecture, and web technology, and these teams are collectively known as the Linkedin Operations organization. All of these skills are continually focused on ensuring that the combination of hardware, software and data stored in our Data Center follows just the right ‘playbook’ to ensure that we offer you, a world class user experience. The primary goal for the LinkedIn Operations organization is for our site and partner applications to be available 24/7.
Most job seekers on LinkedIn, probably have their favorite tips and tricks that help them land their dream job – whether it be re-entering the workforce, making a career 180 heading into the new year or even if someone has just been laid off and looking for a new position. Here’s a comprehensive list of 10 steps one should take on LinkedIn while job hunting:
1. Begin your hunt early.