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Not since the death of Steve Jobs in the fall of 2011 has one story so dominated the attention of professionals. The fight over the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA — a U.S. House of Representatives bill designed to block online copyright violations — took three of the top five headlines in our weekly look at the most-shared stories by 135+ million LinkedIn members. From professionals in the IT industry to aviation and aerospace workers, concern over how the Internet might work – or might stop working — with the bill’s potential passing brought a torrent of sharing. Here’s the full list: (more…)

In honor of Diwali, LinkedIn has created a greetings page for our celebrating friends. The page is only viewable in India, but check out some pictures below from our staff. If you are located in India you can go to in.linkedin.com to view all the wishes from LinkedIn employees. Happy Diwali and a prosperous new year!
Deep Nishar, VP of Product and User Experience at LinkedIn, and wife Rashmi Nishar May your year be full of lights and labs!
Ramesh Subramonian, Senior Quality Assurance at LinkedIn, and puppy Diwaali ki bahot saari shubhkaamnaayein.
Neha Desai, Senior Quality Engineer at LinkedIn, and family

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”.

[Ed. note: Today's post features Sean Lindo, community manager at Box.net, who describes ways of making your resume stand out from the crowd. The Box.net application on LinkedIn, along with the rest of the inApps on LinkedIn can be found here]

Let’s make a bet. A safe one. I’m sure there’s more than a few of you out there that have spent hours, even days crafting the perfect cover letter and polishing your resume for a group of prospective employers, only to never hear back from any of them.  You swear you knocked it out of the park, but you just didn’t get the response you were hoping for. The reality is that there were at least a dozen other people that did the same thing and thought they knocked their resume and cover letter out of the park too.

Whether times are good or bad, getting that extra edge has always been important. You may have the right experience, degrees and attributes, but when employers have stacks and stacks of resumes sitting on their desk, you need something that’s going to make you stand out, especially these days. Writing great cover letters and resumes are a good start – an essential one, at that. But how can you go beyond that?