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[Ed. note: Today's post features Gregg Brockway, co-founder of TripIt, who talks about the genesis of the MyTravel application on LinkedIn followed by some users sharing their experience of the app. The My Travel application on LinkedIn, along with the rest of the inApps on LinkedIn can be found here]

We started TripIt because we thought it should be easier for travelers to organize and share their trips. To this end, we built a technology that reads the data in your travel confirmation emails and uses it to create a master itinerary that’s easy to customize and share. Along the way, we also added support for over 500 travel booking sites worldwide.

As a startup, we were pretty excited when LinkedIn approached us about the MyTravel application last year. We immediately recognized this as a huge opportunity to deliver real benefits to business travelers.

40 million members strong in 6 years, almost to the date! Its always fun to look back down memory lane, and what a year its been! Yours truly has been here for almost a couple of years, so I thought I’d give you a little perspective on some of the milestones we’ve crossed in the past year compared to the first 5 years: First 5 years In the last year Members 22,000,000 40,000,000+ User Groups 50,000+ 300,000+ Languages 1 4 Applications 0 11 Answers 1,000,000 2,000,000+

As you might guess from the chart above, we’ve spent the last year building functionality that help you: create, connect, and collaborate with your connections. A few key highlights from the past year:

[Ed note: This is the last in a series of posts from our users as part of Grad Guides seek week. Henric Haldeborg is a JD and MPA student at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. By years end, he’ll leave the comforts of academic abstraction for the harsh realities of gainful employment to somewhere warm, if he has anything to say about it]

So, I’ve been asked to write a few lines about how I use LinkedIn to search for jobs and internships. I’ll start with an example straight out of reality:

Back in the beginning of the year, I took an interim class in mediation, where the professor mentioned that he had a LinkedIn group devoted to mediation and arbitration that he would be happy to let any interested students join. Of course, I bit immediately. We got to talking in class and before I knew it I had landed a clerkship (legalese for internship) with the idea that it will turn into a full time, permanent position once I’m done with school in December.

[Ed. note: This belongs to our series of posts featuring tips for recent grads from LinkedIn users. Steffany Bane works as a Copywriter at a Digital Advertising Agency. She is also Co-Author of the off-to-college book I’ll Miss you too]

Parents have been playing the catch-up game when it comes to technology. But these days, more parents are connected then ever before. The benefit of this is how busy a college Freshman’s academic schedule (ahem) social calendar is, and in a world of multi-tasking, they can always find time for an electronic message but may not be able to squeeze in a phone call. The benefit to this is #1 Students can edit their entry (ie. delete the curse words) #2 They don’t have to hear Mom’s lecturing voice. #3 If inspiration strikes at 2:00am, they won’t be waking anyone up.

This leads to the interesting factor of just how comfortable a teen can become in sharing details to the point where you’re left feeling sorry you ever asked about how the cafeteria food was or their roommate was doing.