Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 3 new results for [LinkedIn] ===

LinkedIn Loses Connection as Stock Tanks
CNBC.com
Shortly after it opened, LinkedIn zoomed to $122.70 a share, but has
quickly zoomed back as some of the bubblicious flare faded away. “It’s
completely overvalued,” said Dave Rovelli, managing director of US
trading at Canaccord Adams. …
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Some Top Apps Put Data at Risk
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Computer security firm viaForensics has found the applications for top
Internet companies LinkedIn Corp., Netflix, Inc., Foursquare and Square,
Inc. stored various forms of users’ personal data in plain text on a mobile
device, putting sensitive …
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Enterasys wants you to friend and Tweet with your switches and routers
Network World
By Jim Duffy, Network World Enterasys this week rolled out software that
allows network admins to access its management system via social media
websites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Salesforce.com’s Chatter. The
“isaac” software enables users …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 1 new result for [LinkedIn] ===

Tech Stocks: Should You Buy the Bubble?
TIME
Shares of LinkedIn (LNKD), which just went public, are trading at 1000
times trailing earnings and 100 times what the company is projecting for
2012 profits. This has led to some investing advice that could be
characterized – perhaps somewhat unfairly …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 2 new results for [LinkedIn] ===

The Loser’s Curse and the LinkedIn IPO
Seeking Alpha
By Jeffrey Ely Linkedin’s IPO followed the familiar pattern. Priced to
initial investors at $45/share, the stock soared to a peak of $120/share on
the first day of trading and closed at around $90. “Money was left on the
table. …
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Mathematicians Cry “Bubble” on LinkedIn IPO
MediaPost Publications
by Erik Sass, Yesterday, 4:41 PM Having harped on the whole social media
bubble thing in the past, including the LinkedIn IPO, I now find myself
playing devil’s advocate in response to an interesting study by academic
mathematicians purporting to …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 1 new result for [LinkedIn] ===

CapLinked’s New “Suggestions” Tool Helps Users Leverage their LinkedIn
Connections
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
CapLinked, the LinkedIn-meets-SalesForce for private investing, announced
today the launch of its “Suggestions” tool which will integrate with users’
LinkedIn network, helping to maximize the value of their professional
contacts. …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 1 new result for [LinkedIn] ===

Groupon: The Good and the Bad
Seeking Alpha
For example, at last count Linkedin (LNKD) had 102 million subscribers and
75 million hit the site on a monthly basis for the March 2011 quarter.
Renren (RENN) produced similar data. Only 19% of GRPN’s subscribers were
customers as of the March 2011 …
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=== News – 1 new result for [LinkedIn] ===

CapLinked Leverages LinkedIn For Suggestions
socalTech.com
Los Angeles-based CapLinked, the developer of software aimed at helping
companies manage the fundraising process, is rolling out a new feature
today which taps a user’s LinkedIn contacts to suggest who to invite into
deals and other business …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== Web – 2 new results for [LinkedIn] ===

Nonprofits – LinkedIn Learning Center
Join LinkedIn Groups – There are over 75000 nonprofit groups on LinkedIn,
offering you the opportunity to network with professionals in your industry
and …
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How to Use LinkedIn Today to Find Popular Content | Social Media …
How to use LinkedIn Today to as a professional social news source to grow
your social influence.
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 1 new result for [LinkedIn] ===

Zynga Is Said to Favor Following LinkedIn With ‘Low-Float’ IPO Strategy
Bloomberg
By Joseph Galante and Ari Levy – Wed Jun 08 04:01:00 GMT 2011 Zynga Inc.
plans to sell a small number of shares in its initial public offering,
adopting a strategy used by LinkedIn Corp. to maintain control of the
company while raising money to expand, …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 1 new result for [LinkedIn] ===

Fake LinkedIn Messages Install Zeus Malware on Victims’ Computers
eWeek
Social networking site LinkedIn is being used to find victims and then to
send maliciously-crafted e-mails to compromise enterprise workstations.
Prospective employers and job applicants aren’t the only ones using
LinkedIn for research. …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== Blogs – 4 new results for [LinkedIn] ===

Is Your LinkedIn Brand Ready For The “Apply” Button? | Personal …
By Heather Huhman
The Personal Branding Blog offers branding and career advice from Dan
Schawbel and his team of experts.
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Play “Tetris” with your LinkedIn network | Tech Chronicles …
By p_i_new_media
LinkedIn technical marketing manager and “resident hacker” Matthew Shoup
explains in a blog post that “DropIn” came about during one of the Mountain
View company’s monthly “hackday” competitions: “As a follow-up to my fellow
Hacker, …
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Tech Chronicles
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5 LinkedIn Tips You Didn’t Know | Inc. Technology
By Christina DesMarais
While LinkedIn might not be as dramatic as Twitter or as ubiquitous as
Facebook, FastCompany’s Amber Mac is right–the social network for
business has a devoted and active following. Here are her suggestions for
which of its features you …
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Inc. Technology
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10 Things to Immediately Do on LinkedIn | Opportunity Knocks
By editor@opportunityknocks.org (OpportunityKnocks)
10 Things to Immediately Do on LinkedIn By: John Heckers LinkedIn is the
premier business networking site for job-seekers at all levels and all.
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 2 new results for [LinkedIn] ===

Thiel: Tech Bubble? What Tech Bubble?
New York Times (blog)
LinkedIn’s initial public offering, Groupon’s upcoming IPO and bloated
start-up investments and valuations are bringing back painful memories of
the dot-com bubble’s burst roughly a decade ago. David Paul
Morris/Bloomberg NewsPeter Thiel says the …
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Actiance: All your LinkedIn profiles belong to us
Finextra
Actiance has released an upgrade to its social media monitoring platform
that allows financial services firms to keep track of changes made to
employee LinkedIn profiles. The new facility is available as part of
Actiance’s Socialite platform, …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 1 new result for [LinkedIn] ===

LinkedIn App Lets You Play Tetris With Your Network Profiles
Mashable
LinkedIn has shown its whimsical side once again with a new app that lets
you play Tetris with pictures of people in your network. Called DropIn, the
game mimics Tetris, but uses head shots instead of blocks. Writing in
LinkedIn’s blog, Matthew Shoup, …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 1 new result for [LinkedIn] ===

LinkedIn Bubble Debate Rages On: Mathematicians ‘Affirm’ Bubble
Forbes (blog)
By AGUSTINO FONTEVECCHIA LinkedIn’s epic IPO has raised questions that it,
and the tech sector in general, were in a bubble phase, with extraordinary
stock prices not reflecting the value of the underlying companies. While
much ink has been spent on …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 1 new result for [LinkedIn] ===

New Social Media Study: Nearly 60 Percent Say LinkedIn is Most Important …
Benzinga
According to the survey of 2997 active social networkers, 59 percent of
respondents said it is important to have a LinkedIn account, more than any
other social network. Furthermore, of the study respondents with an active
LinkedIn account, …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 4 new results for [LinkedIn] ===

Reconsidering Online Ad Trends over LinkedIn IPO
Gerson Lehrman Group
LinkedIn IPO is one of the successful ones resembling the .com bubble of
the late 90′s and increasing the expectations for the forthcoming alikes
such as Groupon, Facebook…etc. The revenues of LinkedIn comes from three
fields: job listings, …
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Play “Tetris” with your LinkedIn network
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Here’s a fun way to take a break from work while you review who’s in your
LinkedIn network – a game that turns your professional social network
connections into a “Tetris-” style game called “DropIn.” “As a follow-up to
my fellow Hacker, …
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LinkedIn to launch new job application tool
The Grand Rapids Press – MLive.com
By Jackie Headapohl LinkedInThe professional social networking site
LinkedIn is about to launch a new plugin called “Apply with LinkedIn.” For
many job seekers, endlessly filling out online job applications is a
time-consuming nightmare. …
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Lattice Engines Completes Series B Financing Round
PR Newswire (press release)
SAN MATEO, Calif., June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Lattice Engines, the market
leader in B2B sales intelligence software, announced today that it has
selected Sequoia Capital—the venture firm that backed enduring companies
such as LinkedIn, Google, Cisco …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 2 new results for [LinkedIn] ===

Actiance Unveils LinkedIn Static Content Pre-Approval Workflow Capabilities
in …
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Socialite provides granular control for social networking sites, including
the specific ability to manage access and content shared across over 160
features on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Since the issuance of FINRA
10-06 and subsequent draft …
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Pandora’s IPO Could Be Opening Pandora’s Box
Business Insider
Today’s IPO market has gone from hot to sizzling with the recent debut of
LinkedIn (LNKD). With an initial market cap around $3.5B, it quickly jumped
to over $10B to now settle around $7.5B. That’s not half-bad for a company
that earned all of $15M …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== Blogs – 2 new results for [LinkedIn] ===

Condé Nast iPad App Idea Flight Integrates LinkedIn – SocialTimes.com
By David Cohen
Magazine publisher Condé Nast integrated LinkedIn application-program
interfaces into its Idea Flight iPad app, which allows one user to control
the screens of up to 15 iPads, via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and the use of PDF
files.
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SocialTimes.com
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Words Not to Use on LinkedIn Profiles
By Emily Co
A big mistake people make when they are writing their resumes is to use
hackneyed phrases and words. Writing repetitive phrases that a hiring
manager has seen on countless resumes will not make you stand out. Instead,
it’ll lower your …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 1 new result for [LinkedIn] ===

The Market Risk in Irrational Exuberance for Social Media
Seeking Alpha
After LinkedIn’s (LNKD) IPO, it seems as if a whole bunch of new companies
(Groupon for one) will soon be scheduling their own offerings to take
advantage of investor interest in businesses that capitalize on social
media. Another tech bubble in the …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 1 new result for [LinkedIn] ===

Viadeo May Decide on Share Sale ‘Soon,’ Cement Lead Over LinkedIn in China
Bloomberg
By Bloomberg News – Tue Jun 07 07:39:59 GMT 2011 Viadeo Group, owner of
China’s largest online networking site for professionals, said it may sell
shares to the public “soon” to help fend off any challenge in China
from bigger global rival LinkedIn …
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Social Media Alert – LinkedIn

=== News – 1 new result for [LinkedIn] ===

Tiger Global’s Coleman loaded up on LinkedIn shares pre-IPO
Total Telecom
By John Letzing, Dow Jones Newswires Chase Coleman, head of hedge-fund firm
Tiger Global Management LLC, loaded up on tens of thousands of shares of
professional-networking service LinkedIn Corp. in secondary transactions
during the weeks leading up to …
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