While social media takes pride as the fastest rising medium for marketers, Social Media Marketing is proud to announce that it has become the largest LinkedIn group under that category.
Social Media Marketing has passed the 500,000 mark (now 516,061) for number of members to be the fastest rising and third largest LinkedIn group, with a week-over-week growth rate of 8 percent.
Founded in March 2008, Social Media Marketing’s LinkedIn group is a global community for social media …

LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, will be taking down their Answers feature by the end of the month.  LinkedIn Answers is basically a question and answer forum where users can post questions as well as reply to answers from others.  In fact, a number of members have invested a lot of time and effort in using the

LinkedIn’s user base is now 200 million strong, as worldwide expansion yielded twice its membership in just over a year, according to an official blog post on Wednesday, January 9, by the world’s largest social networking site for professionals.
Deep Nishar, Senior Vice President for Products and User Experience at LinkedIn, wrote in the post that the new figure is a significant and stirring juncture for LinkedIn.
The executive added that this milestone shows more than just a statistic, …

The number of LinkedIn users in Malaysia is now on the rise, thanks to localization, which has helped boost participation in the professional social

Staples has teamed up with LinkedIn to launch a new small business group on the social networking platform for professionals.
Staples Inc., the world’s largest office product company and second largest internet retailer, is partnering with LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, to launch SUCCEED: Small Business Network. This online forum will serve as a platform for networking, advice and content specifically for small business professionals.
In SUCCEED, Staples and LinkedIn …

A new tool seeking to help non-profit organizations find board members has just been rolled out by LinkedIn, a social network for professionals. According to Renee Frojo from the San Francisco Business Times, the new tool is called “Bridge Connect,” and it assists nonprofits in looking for the people with the skills they

LinkedIn has patched up the appearance of its homepage display for the convenience of its users.
The internet buzz provider, which mainly focuses on business trends, announced that its recent strategy of refurbishing its homepage display is part of their aim to provide better convenience for users in searching and scanning information through a much simpler and well-organized layout. It also allows the company to spend a greater emphasis on bringing up-to-date news and network coverage.
In …

LinkedIn has collaborated with law enforcement agencies to hound the culprits responsible for its monolithic password leakage.
The social networking site for professionals called for help from US government authorities to look for the offenders, at least according to a Reuters report.
The news site said that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has started taking notes and names linked to the breach in security – information that LinkedIn did not even bother to confirm.
“We are …

LinkedIn officially comes to Apple iPad tablets. (Image: Apple App Store)

LinkedIn has finally made available an iPad version of its popular iOS mobile app nearly two years after it arrived on iPhone handsets.
The social networking site for professionals disclosed that 22 percent of its traffic came from mobile devices, which undoubtedly spurred the initiative to create an optimized version for Apple iPad tablets. Earlier, LinkedIn users had to deal with a larger-scaled version of the iPhone …

A study carried out by researchers at Cornell University and published in the March issue of “Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking” reports that people are more honest about the important facts on their LinkedIn profiles than on their traditional resumes.
 

Lead author of the study Jamie Guillory said participants were more honest about important facts but still "found ways to make themselves look better"

The study, titled “The effect of LinkedIn on …