Linkedin Blog

Jonathan Yates is an entrepreneur who started his company in his back bedroom, which he then sold subsequently (while retaining 25% of the business) 12 months ago. He now spends his time consulting organisations on corporate entrepreneurship and writing business books. Finally, thanks to LinkedIn, he spends quality time on the professional speaking circuit in the UK and Europe. More on that in the post below.

I thought I would write my very first guest blog post on the quick transition I made from author to professional speaker and how LinkedIn helped me achieve this.

After spending 18 hours a day on my start-up, the lack of sleep finally got to me and I realised that although I have a very creative mind, the day to day detail of running a business was not what I was good at. I am a salesman and proud of it. The business reached the point where I needed help but didn’t know it and luckily at this very time a partner asked to buy the majority share of the business. Very good I said and the business was sold.

I’m excited to announce that last weekend marked the launch of a new way for professionals to leverage the power of LinkedIn: our first native application for the Palm Pre.  For those of you lucky enough to have purchased a new Palm Pre, you’ll find LinkedIn as one of the free applications immediately available in the Palm Pre application catalog.

First off, thanks to everyone who attended the first LinkedIn Tech Talk session featuring the creator of SCALA, Martin Odersky, along with Nick Kallen of Twitter and David Pollak of LIFT. We had over 150 attendees at the event although we had originally planned only for 100. In addition to the audience here at Mountain View, we also live streamed the event to over ~1000 viewers, with over 140 of them viewing it live.

We’d also like to thank the following participants for submitting questions that drove the panel discussion: Parag Joshi, Vladimir Bacvanski, Pradeep Pujari, Mark Wong-VanHaren, Peter Simanyi, Aden Davies, Hernan Silberman, and  LinkedIn’s Nick Dellamaggiore and Eishay Smith.

Last week we launched the “Recruiting with LinkedIn” blog, a blog for recruiters and folks who rely on LinkedIn for their hiring needs.  There are more than half a million recruiters using LinkedIn and our enterprise solutions to find and contact top talent. But as a professional you might already know that and may have received a few interesting job opportunities.

The new “Recruiting with LinkedIn” blog contains information about leveraging LinkedIn, and especially LinkedIn Talent Advantage, to recruit the best professionals.  This blog will be a great source of information, featuring: