Articles by Patrick Crane
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40 million members strong in 6 years, almost to the date! Its always fun to look back down memory lane, and what a year its been! Yours truly has been here for almost a couple of years, so I thought I’d give you a little perspective on some of the milestones we’ve crossed in the past year compared to the first 5 years: First 5 years In the last year Members 22,000,000 40,000,000+ User Groups 50,000+ 300,000+ Languages 1 4 Applications 0 11 Answers 1,000,000 2,000,000+
As you might guess from the chart above, we’ve spent the last year building functionality that help you: create, connect, and collaborate with your connections. A few key highlights from the past year:
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- Events
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LinkedIn is all about helping people be successful in their professional lives, and with that goal in mind we’re stepping up our efforts to help graduates launch their careers – starting today.
Over the next two weeks on our blog, we’ll have students and faculty (career services professionals, alumni department heads, etc.) from universities across the country share their advice on how grads and their parents can help launch new grads’ careers during this tough economy. We’ll also have experts, coaches, book authors and even journalists/media personalities talk on a range of topics such as the best ways to pay off your student debt, how to live on a budget without cutting out all of your fun and even the best ways for parents to productively talk to their new grads about getting jobs.
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- Miscellaneous
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Some of you might have read my earlier blog post from last year on how LinkedIn can help you build a professional network that lasts. As we begin this New Year, I’d like to suggest four key ways in which LinkedIn can help you put your best foot forward professionally in 2009.
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- LinkedIn Tips
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When I recently passed my first year anniversary at LinkedIn, I thought it was high time that I wrote my first blog post. It’s been an incredible experience to work at LinkedIn over the past year. Our membership has more than doubled to over 30 million professionals around the world.
Most importantly though, people are accomplishing great things on LinkedIn, and in every case that we’ve learned about, it has been because of one thing – the strength of the trusted relationship, and how LinkedIn can put that to work for you.
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- LinkedIn Tips