25 Brilliant Bloggers Talk About LinkedIn

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Brilliant Bloggers is a weekly series here at BlogWorld where we look at the best posts from around the web all surrounding a specific topic. Every week, we’ll feature three of the most brilliant bloggers out there, along with a huge list of more resources where you can learn about the topic. You can see … [Read more]

LinkedIn Profiles – New Look and Added Features

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Have you been on your LinkedIn profile today? If so, you might have noticed your profile has a new look and some added features. I first found out about this via TheNextWeb and as soon as I logged on to my profile, sure enough, I was greeted with their new Post-It note checklist. The post-it … [Read more]

Use Your LinkedIn Profile as Your Resume with New “Apply with LinkedIn” Button

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LinkedIn has launched a new “Apply with LinkedIn” button on their job listing pages. It allows job seekers to apply for a job using their LinkedIn profile as their resume. They say the new feature is “the future of job applications”. Some companies who are the first to debut this new feature include Netflix, TripIt, … [Read more]

Users Spend Nearly 16% of Time Online on Social Media

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Online users spend 16% of their time on social media, up from only 8% four years ago, says a new report by comScore. In 2007, social networking represented about 1 out of every 12 minutes spent online, while today that number is more like 1 out of every 6 minutes. This number doesn’t surprise me. … [Read more]

LinkedIn Shares Going Public Thursday

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LinkedIn shares are set to hit the public markets starting this Thursday. This is the first big social network to go public, and the company is looking to raise $274 million with the offering. Although shares were originally going to be priced $32-$35, LinkedIn bumped it up to $42-$45 today. LinkedIn is a well-known social-networking … [Read more]

35 Ways Social Media Can Make Your Life Easier

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Twitter is about more than telling people what kind of sandwich you had for lunch and Facebook is about more than posting party pictures from your days in college. The next time people tell you that social media is worthless, point them to this post. These are very real ways new media sites have made … [Read more]

Job Seeking? Social Networking Can Help!

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In today’s economy, it seems to me that people fall into one of two categories:  Lucky to still have their job, or desperately searching for a new one.  Granted this is most likely a very vast generalization, but you get the point.  The good news is, the tools available as a job seeker are more … [Read more]

Blogging: Not Just For The Young!

Not only am I a blogger, I’ve BEEN a blogger since April 2004;  I’m no newcomer!  If I may say so, I know whassup with the Blogosphere.  I have several hundred blogs in my blogrolls and readers.  Not only do I blog for myself, I blog for several clients as well.  I read everything I can … [Read more]