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Professionals are looking at business cards in a whole new way with our CardMunch app. Just a couple of months since our relaunch we’ve hit a new milestone: 2 million business cards munched!

If you have yet to experience CardMunch, it’s simple: a quick camera capture of any business card using an iPhone enables professionals to digitize their collection of business cards, but more importantly get access to richer information about the person behind the card via their LinkedIn profile.

With the New Year right around the corner, the LinkedIn team thought it would be a great time to refresh one of our most popular analyses from last year - overused professional buzzwords! Maybe during the last year some of our members scrubbed their profiles of buzzwords and more uniquely described themselves? Or maybe there has been a huge growth in the number of ‘innovative, motivated, entrepreneurial team players who are results-oriented and thrive in fast-paced environments’. To the data!

We took a look at the more than 135 million professional profiles on our site and here are the top 10 buzzwords for the United States:

Have you ever wondered which LinkedIn Groups would be most valuable to your career? Have you explored new groups and wondered, how active is this group, is this the group for me, or what kind of professionals are in this group?

Today we’re launching a brand new Group Statistics dashboard that delivers unique insights into groups. And it’s available for every group on LinkedIn.

This is a guest post on best practices around social networking from Nicole Williams. For similar posts check out our series on networking tips and tricks here. – Ed.

It may not surprise you, but LinkedIn’s latest study found (in a survey of nearly 1,000 female professionals in the U.S.) that 82 percent of women agree that having a mentor is important.  But what will knock your socks off is that considering the competitive employment landscape, and the universal belief that mentorship is a critical component to career success, 19 percent (that’s nearly one out of every five women) have NEVER had a mentor.