My Case Studies - Social Networking

For all my friends, who are still not there... :)

Today I am starting a series of posts about one of my favorite web resources - LinkedIn. LinkedIn.com is one of the fastest growing social networks for professionals.

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A profile picture helps to identify you among others and shows that you are unique.

Thinking on an emotional level regarding communications with your network, your profile picture is the tool which helps you to build stronger relationships.

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For whatever reason you decided to create your LinkedIn profile, you want to make sure it is being updated regularly or as I would say – it is alive. It doesn’t mean that you should post your updates or tweak it like crazy every hour or two or even every day. However, doing this at least 2-3 times a week will indicate that you are there for your connections and for people who might consider connecting with you.

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LinkedIn Groups are inside LinkedIn communities of people united by similar interests. There are currently about 800K groups registered on LinkedIn.
The LinkedIn Groups Directory presents the groups sorted by categories of interests.
All the LinkedIn Groups are sorted by the following 6 main types: alumni groups, corporate groups, conference groups, networking groups, nonprofit groups and professional groups.

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LinkedIn has recently hit the 100M users mark and is recognized to be the most popular and powerful professional networking platform on the Internet.
It`s popularity has grown drastically over the last two years which has placed LinkedIn in the top 5 fastest growing social networks in the world.
Since I wrote the first post about LinkedIn in October 2010, it has acquired more than 20M new users which means that in average the network has grown by more than 100 users EVERY minute. Isn't that cool?

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The process of a job search has changed significantly during the last few years. It is hard not to admit this.

The viral & breakneck speed expansion of social networks and Internet services in general have made this process very different compared to that from the "old days".

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