2009 was, without doubt, the year of Twitter. Whether it was the massive hacker attacks that created a massive outage and reminded us of how it has now become an important part of our lives, the interest in both Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses to utilize it as part of their social media marketing strategy, or the phenomenal growth in membership, tweets are now part of our mainstream culture and are the default real-time search results for the likes of Google, Bing, and Yahoo. I expect Twitter to continue to transform itself into a more useful platform for …
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As the year comes to a close, it is time to look back, before looking forward to 2010, at all of the informative and insightful blog posts that the world has created in the past 365 days concerning LinkedIn. LinkedIn itself, while beginning 2009 at a slow start, ended the year announcing 50 million members, integrating with Twitter, a new user interface, and an opening up of their platform. Not to mention that they refined and improved upon the most valuable piece of their social networking platform, the Advanced People Search. Oh, and then there was the new Profile Organizer …
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I finally got access to the new LinkedIn user interface (UI) yesterday, so I thought I would write up a quick comparison to the old user interface and conclude with my thoughts on whether or not this is a step forward for the LinkedIn user. I already mentioned in a previous post that the new LinkedIn user interface brings with it no new functionality per se. But from a usability perspective, the change is dramatic and warrants a unique post in helping you adjust to the new way of navigating LinkedIn.
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As 2009 comes to a close, we start reflecting on our New Year’s Resolution(s) for 2010. In Social Media, which is all about sharing, the greatest contribution that you can make is to share your knowledge or opinions to the world through blogging. After all, as a professional, where is your “Home Base,” the hub that you share with people who want more information about you? Your LinkedIn Profile? It should be your blog, and if you are looking for reasons to start blogging, check out these 7 reasons to start blogging (in 2010 or ASAP!).
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I recently had the pleasure of celebrating my first birthday on Facebook. Wow, what an experience! If you don’t have your birth date out to display to your friends or you haven’t been on Facebook long enough, you may not be able to comprehend what I experienced. But for those of you who know about this, let’s just say my birthday was made extra special by all of the people who came to my Wall to wish me a Happy Birthday. And I mean lots of people. I am writing this blog post to both thank all of my Facebook …
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Today’s blog post has been contributed by Lisa Hendrickson, the owner of Call That Girl! (CTG) based out of Minneapolis, MN. CTG does local and nationwide telephone supported computer repair/troubleshooting. My personal experience with using LinkedIn Groups has been more than exciting and has also brought me to my first “eye-opening” attention grabbing numbers of making more than $10,000 from using LinkedIn. What was my investment? TIME. Period. I did not put one dime into LinkedIn and have yet to do so. I still am using the free account as well.
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LinkedIn began limited testing of their new user interface a few weeks ago and today announced that they were going to roll out their new “look” to everyone in the next week. What’s changed?
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Every person reading this blog is now a participant in social media. After all, this is written by an individual, not broadcasted at you by a traditional media company, and thus is a true example of user generated content. As we become users of social media, whether through finding old friends on Facebook or connecting with new colleagues on LinkedIn, social media is slowly becoming part of our daily life. And if we have ever been in a job search, social media becomes increasingly important for us to utilize as part of both an online and offline networking strategy. Have …
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It is no secret that 2009 saw the dawning of the new era of consumers using social media to find deals and product information. If you didn’t hear, Toys R Us symbolized this new movement by releasing their new catalog on their Facebook Fan Page, and in doing so picked up between 40,000 to 95,000 new fans per day over the week before Thanksgiving. The Toys R Us Facebook Fan Page has now grown to 430,000 members almost overnight as I write this. Wow! But this is not out of the ordinary and only a sign of things to come …
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2009 was definitely the year in which we saw a great number of new book additions in the realm of social media. While there have always been a classic book or two on social media (or pre-social media social networking books) published each year, 2009 was filled with several books that are destined to become classic reads for sometime to come. These are the books that, despite the changes in specific functionality that we will see over time, provide us a framework for us to better understand and utilize social media. And they not only deserve a place on my …
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