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15 unusual facts about Linkedin


Ben Casnocha

It is co-authored with Reid Hoffman, co-founder and Executive Chairman of LinkedIn and was released in the United States on February 14, 2012.

Gernatt Family of Companies

The Gernatt Family of Companies can also be found on the worldwide, professional social network, LinkedIn, under Gernatt Asphalt Products, Inc.

HEDON Household Energy Network

These are hosted as groups on the professional networking website, LinkedIn.

LinkedIn

Among the initial applications were an Amazon Reading List that allows LinkedIn members to display books they are reading, a connection to Tripit, and a Six Apart, WordPress and TypePad application that allows members to display their latest blog postings within their LinkedIn profile.

Influencer is an invite-only program that features notable leaders from a vast range of industries including Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, Rahm Emanuel, Jamie Dimon, Deepak Chopra, Jack Welch, and Bill Gates.

Security experts criticized LinkedIn for not salting their password file, and instead using a single iteration of SHA-1.

Loveland Chamber of Commerce

The Loveland Chamber actively uses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to start conversations and inform investors about events, business trends, legislative affairs and community news.

My Windows Phone

Contacts - Automatic synchronization of all contacts in the People hub to their Microsoft account, including contacts added from other connected services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Sina Weibo.

Peace of Mind Campaign

This message can then be posted to popular social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, Twitter and Bebo.

Raj Goel

Caring about causes such as technology, privacy, and security, Goel informs people about issues from the technical sides including growing one’s practice using Linked-In, informing adults and children about social media, and describing the digital handling and analysis to professional societies.

Richard Worth

After his resignation, Worth returned to the bar, with his LinkedIn profile listing him as "barrister specialising in mediation and arbitration" and "company director".

Shoutlet

is a leading provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS), enterprise-level social media marketing platform that enables marketers to publish, engage, and measure social marketing campaigns and activities on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Social data revolution

The job market is even being shaped by the information people share about themselves on sites like LinkedIn and Facebook.

Suzy Favor Hamilton

In 2013 her LinkedIn page says she is becoming a "Future Yoga Instructor, Public Speaker, Olympian.....and On the Path to Redemption." She also refers to her paid speaking engagements, mentioning her work as a call girl.

Underwater basket weaving

Linkedin adopted "skill endorsement" in 2012, and in response to the arbitrary nature of those skill attributions, some LinkedIn participants began to list "Advanced Underwater Basket Weaving" as a skill, thereby exercising some control over their online profile.


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Brian Carter

He is the author of three Internet Marketing books: The Like Economy, the bestseller Facebook Marketing (3rd ed.), and LinkedIn For Business, all published by Que Publishing, an imprint of Pearson Education.

Empire Avenue

Social networks supported by Empire Avenue currently include Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Instagram, Wordpress hosted blogs and the player's own blog and RSS feeds.

Horatio Investments

Horatio Investments were included in an article in late 2012, named "22 business angels you need to know about", in which they were listed along such investors as Ron Conway and Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn.

Learned society

Members of these online academic communities, grouped by areas of interests, use for their communication shared and dedicated listservs (for example JISCMail), social networking services (like Facebook, Linkedin) and academic oriented social networks (like Mendeley, Academia.edu).

OrSiSo

The OrSiSo application runs on Adobe AIR, and connects to several social networks including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bebo and Flickr as well as Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ and MSN chats.

Riviera Partners

Riviera Partners' clientele includes, among others, ServiceNow, Xoom, One Kings Lane, Uber, Path, Okta, Pure Storage, Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Pinterest, and Zappos.

SocialIQ

The analysis is done through a unique algorithm that uses data drawing from key social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to compute the social IQ score and then classifies the users accordingly.