What a year! We thought a perfect way to wrap-up the year would be to take a look at this year’s most popular blog posts, shining a spotlight on many of our key LinkedIn moments this year.
As you skim through the most popular LinkedIn pictures and posts this year (right below the slideshow), you get an overview of some of our key milestones – product, cultural and more.
With the year ending, we wanted to know what stories were the most appealing to more than 130 million professionals on LinkedIn. Here’s what we found: there is a massive demand for information on how to be better at work. No surprise there! But the demand is democratic: the top articles featured tips gleaned from professionals across a broad spectrum, whether it was from Steve Jobs or from Ilya Pozin, a digital marketing executive and author of this year’s most-shared story.
The secret is making the information inspiring, accessible and fun. It also doesn’t hurt to use the numbers 5, 7 or 9 in your headline.
in-day: noun
A day each month when LinkedIn employees take a break from their daily tasks and inspire each other, learn something new and give back to the community.
inDay at LinkedIn began in July of 2010 and was the focus of Team Inspire (Meg Garlinghouse, MaryAnne Viegelmann, and myself) in 2011. Each month inDay has a theme which gives employees a suggested team direction and vision on how we could spend our day.
One wall of Jeff Stibel’s Malibu office is coated with failure. Famous quotes about flaming out — from Henry Ford (“Success is 99% failure”) to Mickey Rooney (“You always pass failure on the way to success”) — cover the wall, sharing room with the hand-written admissions of disasters and bad decisions of his employees at Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.
Through these personal tales of failure, Stibel has built a culture that encourages risk taking and humility. He lays out the reasons why he embraces failure — and why you should, too — in an article on HBR.com that was one of the most shared stories this week on LinkedIn. In fact, failure seemed to be the theme of the week, as you can see from the Top 5:
At LinkedIn, we have Hackdays once per month, where we encourage employees to form teams, work on anything they can dream of, present their hacks to the company, and compete for prizes. We make some of these hacks publicly available by putting them up on our experimental site, LinkedIn Labs.
Today, I’m happy to announce 4 new additions to LinkedIn Labs from Veterans Hackday:
