Articles by Brooke Lopez
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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.
Themes in 2011 included Innovation, Play, Culture, Community, and Career. Some spend the entire day volunteering, some hosting a 90-minute workshop sharing their career expertise with others, while others spent the time hacking new product and productivity ideas. It’s not about what we do or how long but just that we take a step back from the grind of the task list and choose a worthy cause we’re most passionate about. Personally, my highlights for 2011 inDays are:
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- LinkedIn Indays
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This month, to celebrate the first birthday of inDay, we returned to a theme that began at the very first one — volunteering — and watched more than 200 employees give back to their local communities worldwide through volunteer efforts.
For those of you new to inDay, it’s a Friday each month when LinkedIn employees have a “no meeting day” and the opportunity to work on something which may not be on their daily task list. Each inDay has a theme to get the creative juices flowing, but the activities ultimately follow our colleagues’ passions.
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- Life at LinkedIn,
- LinkedIn Events
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Once a month at LinkedIn, we set aside a Friday for employees to think creatively, work on inspirational and innovative projects and focus on investing in themselves and their community. It’s a day to spend time outside their daily task list.
In the past, this has meant a series of inspirational inDay Speakers, a ping pong tournament and raffle to benefit charity, financial education classes, LinkedIn Olympics and hosting eighth graders from an underperforming school to show them how doing well in school translates into getting a great job at a great company.
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- LinkedIn Indays
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As we celebrated LinkedIn’s eighth birthday on Cinco de Mayo this past week, I think back to LinkedIn’s birthday celebrations over the years. I had just started in the newly formed sales team the August prior to our fourth birthday and remember it wasn’t much of celebration. Our fifth birthday was celebrated in a much more memorable fashion, with an actual party. We were five years old and had a reason to celebrate with close to 10 million members. At that point, I thought, this is cool but what kind of company celebrates a birthday and why?
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- Events,
- Work at LinkedIn
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Many of our readers have stumbled upon the livestream of LinkedIn Speaker Series – featuring interviews with transformative individuals from different realms of professional life. We’re glad to have hosted visionary leaders like Newark Mayor Cory Booker, personal finance guru Suze Orman, best-selling author Deepak Chopra and others in the recent past. Most of these interviews last roughly an hour followed by questions from our audience – employees and guests – gathered in our Mountain View office.
Given tons of requests, we’ve decided to stream all of our Speaker Series videos on YouTube. Check out our past Speaker Series videos here.
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- LinkedIn Speaker Series
