Articles by Kay Luo
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Today at LinkedIn we’re celebrating the achievement of creating the world’s largest centipede to ever run (okay, stroll) the ING Bay to Breakers. Yesterday at the obnoxious hour of five am, thirty of us gathered in San Francisco to attempt the monumental task of creating an in person manifestation of a LinkedIn network. Our mission: to connect at least 2027 people at the world’s largest foot race, (aka San Francisco’s seven mile block party) in an attempt to break the Guinness world record for longest human centipede.
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- Events
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As the debate on health care reform continues, The White House is interested in the most important perspective on health care: yours. Office of Health Reform Director and Counselor to the President Nancy-Ann DeParle has posted a question on LinkedIn Answers to engage in a dialogue with over 3.6 million health care professionals on LinkedIn.
DeParle says, “Recently doctors and medical professionals from across the country visited the White House to share their experiences with health care. Please watch the video to hear what they have to say and tell us what you think”.
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- Featured
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Since we launched the LinkedIn Store almost 8 months ago we’ve been adding items and accessories at regular intervals for all LinkedIn Fans. The most recent store update was radical, both in terms of the look-and-feel as well as a slew of new products.
Here’s a sampling of new products, accessories and more importantly – our new LinkedIn models. Click through the pictures to find out who’s who:
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- Miscellaneous
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A week ago, Mario blogged that “FOX Business gets LinkedIn” – an obvious reference to the interview that Dan Nye, our CEO, gave to Liz Claman. Subsequent to that interview many of you may have read our recent Series D funding announcement in a post interspersed with a video from our four investors.
You may have also stumbled upon the commentary from one of these news outlets:
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- Announcements,
- LinkedIn in the News
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Fifteen hundred LinkedIn users answered U.S Senator Barack Obama’s question on how the next president could help small business and entrepreneurs thrive. Since then he has become the Presidential Candidate of the Democratic party. In recent speeches Senator Obama has proposed a competitiveness agenda centered around “education and energy, innovation and infrastructure, fair trade and reform”.
Just earlier today, he posed his second question on LinkedIn Answers asking the 23 million professionals on LinkedIn what ideas they have to keep America competitive in the years ahead and in less than a day it has garnered over 400 answers.
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- LinkedIn Answers
