Add to that the fact that Internet companies with a lot more sex appeal than LinkedIn -- including Facebook, Groupon, Pandora, Yelp and Zynga (makers of FarmVille) -- are all likely to go public within the next year, and you have LinkedIn taking the pole position in what will be a tidal wave of social media companies entering the public markets.
Twitter is the strongest social media channel for generating business-to-business (B2B) leads, outperforming Facebook and LinkedIn 9-to-1 with 82 percent of social media leads coming from Twitter.
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An employee wants the ability to access personal networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook on company-owned devices.
Some cash-strapped firms are making connections with potential hires in an even cheaper way: through social-networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook.
What hiring manager is going to make a decision based on an e-mail attachment when they can browse your LinkedIn and Facebook profiles, read the gory details in your blog and hit Google to find out more about you -- good or bad -- all in one sitting?
How many e-mailed Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter messages and alerts do you get in a day?
The Williams grad and protege of legendary investor Julian Robertson set out on his own in 2001, prospering on well-known technology stocks such as Apple and Priceline as well as pre-IPO shares in Facebook and LinkedIn.
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The twenty-somethings who tend profiles on both LinkedIn and Facebook may not care where their next job comes from.
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It's that easy to derail your entire career if your employer learns you tweeted an injudicious comment, posted one on LinkedIn or Facebook, put it in an e-mail, or had a questionable exchange via Craigslist.
Posted up-to-date profiles on networking sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook.
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There were about 116 applicants from social-media sites, like Facebook.com and Linkedin.com, for every one that was hired.
With Facebook, Linkedin, twitter and the many self-promotional social media programs, even the so-called passive candidates must wrestle for space.
She encourages registrants to share the event with their LinkedIn connections, Twitter followers and Facebook friends and to e-mail event details directly from the site to their friends.
Big companies so far have been more likely to hire social-media consultants that can help safeguard them and their employees against reputation-injuring mistakes on sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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While sales growth has slowed since mid-2012, LinkedIn's revenue growth is outpacing that of Facebook, Zynga and Groupon.
When it comes to loading its home page, MySpace is a winded, rheumatism-afflicted old geezer compared to the lithe Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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You need a professional e-mail address, a LinkedIn profile, even a Twitter and Facebook account to help troll for possible contacts and opportunities.
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Then we used social platforms Facebook and LinkedIn to segment prospects and deliver employer-specific ad copy.
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My story also mentions that Google-like job aggregator SimplyHired already has an easy-to-use tool that connects you instantly to both Facebook and LinkedIn.
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The update will probably force links to corporate Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts to quickly appear prominently on investor-relations pages.
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Facebook, Zynga, LinkedIn and other high flying Bay Area start-ups have launched their founders and investors into the billionaire stratosphere (at least on paper).
Tweetdeck, for example, can no longer be assumed to be a Twitter-only client, because it also allows you to access your LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Google Buzz and Foursquare accounts.
The world has chosen Facebook, but the likes of LinkedIn and Twitter are offering bespoke services - fast news or business networking - which appeal to smaller communities.
In April, the number of unique visitors to LinkedIn grew by 361% over the year-earlier period, while the much larger Facebook grew by 56%, according to Nielsen Online.
Social media darlings Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn ( LNKD) and Zynga have either filed S-1s or created fevered IPO speculation.
So far Drund integrates a handful of third-party apps: Facebook, Twitter, Freshbooks, YouTube, Pandora, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Flickr, Box.net, Dropbox and Shopify.
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LinkedIn and Twitter have taken the lead over Facebook for B2B because they are more information-based, targeted, and somewhat less personal than Facebook, Storey says.
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