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Articles posted in May 2010

  • Share videos on LinkedIn using the Slideshare app

    Guest Author, May 6, 2010
    Ed. note: This belongs to a series of posts on how web sites and services are integrating LinkedIn functionality using the LinkedIn API. Rashmi Sinha is co-founder and CEO for SlideShare, one of the most popular apps on LinkedIn, which lets everyone from marketers, speakers and educators share professional content with one another.

    Every time I run into someone who uses the SlideShare app on LinkedIn, I ask them what they share using the app. Often I hear about slides from a talk, webinar, artist portfolio or whitepaper.

    But not infrequently, I hear from someone who also wants to share the video of their talk, a screencast or a demo. They like sharing their slides and documents with their networks and want to share videos in the same way.

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  • Come run with us and break a Guinness World Record at Bay to Breakers!

    Armen Vartanian, May 5, 2010
    Ed. note: This is a special edition post on folks working at LinkedIn talking about their true passion – at work and in the real world. This week’s post comes from Armen Vartanian, who’s not only training to break a world record at Bay to Breakers this year but also encouraging you to do the same!

    Happy Cinco de LinkedIn — our 7th birthday anniversary and cause for celebration. This year, in honor of our big day, we’re attempting something big. Really big. Guinness World Records BIG. At one of the world’s largest and oldest footraces, ING Bay to Breakers (May 16, 2010), we’ll be attempting to form the world’s longest human centipede, requiring over 2,026 people. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to set a world record and we would like for you, your friends and colleagues to be a part of this historic event. Through the power of our LinkedIn networks we can make this happen!

    It’s so easy for us professionals to get caught up in the daily grind and forget to balance out our lives. We need to reward ourselves for the hard work that we put in day-to-day and do that in a manner that fully utilizes our passion. And, this year’s Bay to Breakers is one such opportunity to balance out serious work with serious fun.

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