Linked[In the News] is a weekly series featuring news articles culled from mainstream media and the blogosphere that covers relevant topics on professional networking and LinkedIn. Here’s our top five news articles for the week in no particular order. Enjoy your weekend!
Nothing says Friday quite like the weekly LinkedIn news round up! Here’s our top five for this week (in no particular order):
1. New York Times: Why “Flirting” on LinkedIn is Important!
The past few weeks have been busy ones here at LinkedIn. Have you heard of our homepage redesign or Status feature?
Our most recent news announcement came early this morning and gathered a slew of attention from some top tier publications. As you probably already know, Bill Gates, the Chairman of Microsoft is asking LinkedIn’s 20 million users to give him advice about how to get youths involved in science and technology. All LinkedIn members are being granted permission to give answers/make suggestions to Bill’s question in real time. It has already received almost 2000 answers.
It’s been a while since we gave you a summary of press mentions LinkedIn has received in recent times. Here’s a sampling of the press coverage received this past month:
This past week, saw a lot of press and blog attention showered on our most recent announcements; LinkedIn’s redesigned home page (featuring LinkedIn News) and LinkedIn’s Intelligent Application Platform. Given below are the highlights of that coverage (Top 5 from Press and Blog posts respectively):
