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  • Attention all interns in the Bay Area! You’re invited to the second annual Intern Hackday to be held at LinkedIn HQ on August 3rd, 2012. This is a chance to compete with the best and brightest in Silicon Valley: form teams with other college students, hack all night, and create something amazing.

    Register for Intern Hackday 2012 now!

  • Once a month, we set aside a Friday for employees to focus on investing in themselves and their community. It’s a day to spend time outside their daily task list. Check out other InDay posts here. – Ed. 

    Every company is hungry for innovation. At LinkedIn, we’ve cooked up something we call the “Innovator Challenge,” which has been tremendously successful at bringing out new and disruptive ideas from every employee at the company. It’s a one-day event that mixes competition and recognition as a way to bring creative ideas to life. Here’s the recipe:

  • 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:

  • Veterans Hackday 2011

    November 11, 2011

    They serve our country every day. Now is your chance to give something back. Today, we’re kicking off the first ever Veterans Hackday. We are calling all hackers to work together and create projects that can improve any aspect of a veterans life.

  • Resumes and Hackdays

    January 12, 2011

    Stop for a second and consider this question: where is your resume?