Archive for the ‘LinkedIn News’ Category

LinkedIn Gets a New Boss

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Yesterday LinkedIn announced its new President, Jeff Weiner.  You can read all about it on TechCrunch's post: Changing Of The Guard: Jeff Weiner Takes CEO Spot At LinkedIn. I don't really know Reid (although we've exchanged a couple of messages, and he said he's aware of my book and DVD).  I ...

LinkedIn History: Colleaguester.com

Friday, April 10th, 2009

I was watching this old video from 2006, walking through the LinkedIn's office with Reid Hoffman (interviewed by the famous Loic Le Meur), and at minute 4:14 saw this bit of intriguing history: In the video Reid says what you can read in the sign: "we were going to call it ...

LinkedIn Demographics - Who Uses LinkedIn

Friday, September 26th, 2008

I've seen this before, but now I can point to a TechCrunch post about LinkedIn Demographics (actually, about advertising on LinkedIn, but that's not what my post is about).  Check this out:  Average Age: 41 Household Income: $109,703 Male: 64% One of my favorite books is How to Lie With Statistics.  After reading that ...

Changes, Changes…

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Some quick changes since the book was written: One of the LinkedIn-centric e-mail lists that I mentioned and recommended, LinkedInnovators, has shut down. I don't know why, as it had a good membership and good traffic and discussion... but the owners decided to shut it down. The other list that I ...