...FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Facebook Inc. isn’t the only social-media company marking the anniversary of its public trading debut this week. LinkedIn Corp. LNKD, +0.36% will celebrate the second anniversary of its initial public offering on Sunday, a day after Facebook FB, -1.53% marks its first birthday as a public company. In LinkedIn’s case, “celebrate” is the appropriate word. “LinkedIn has been the belle of the social IPO ball,” analyst Roger Kay of Endpoint Technologies Associates told MarketWatch. While it didn’t attract the pop culture frenzy that Facebook enjoyed, the LinkedIn IPO will be remembered as one of the most successful social-media trading debuts in history. LinkedIn shares edged up by a fraction to close at $182.35 on Friday. That’s roughly four times their IPO price of $45. When it debuted on May 19, 2011, the stock more than doubled to close at $94.25. On the other hand, Facebook ended its debut trading day with a gain of 23 cents. LinkedIn’s debut was supposed to be just the first wave of social-media IPOs that was expected to reach a high point with Facebook. LinkedIn didn't just have a far more successful trading debut, it has maintained a solid momentum. ‘LinkedIn has tapped into a core set of jobs that professionals want to get done around managing your professional network, looking for a new job, refining your skills. They kind of disrupted the Rolodex.’ Crawford Del Prete, IDC analyst LinkedIn has more than 225 million members...
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...an e-mail can be part of your community. Facebook then became a community of communities, it will connect students, businesses and people can choose to participate in one or more networks. Is a community created by and based on members In February 2007 came to have the largest number of registered users compared to other web sites aimed at upper-level students, having over 19 million members around the world, because it was originally published in English only. TWITTER Twitter is a free microblogging, which serves as a social network that allows users to send micro-text based entries, called "tweets" with a maximum length of 140 characters. Twitter was born in 2006, a number of young entrepreneurs working for the company Odeo Podcasts, Inc., San Francisco, USA, were immersed in a full day of brainstorming ideas.En part of these meetings, Jack Dorsey suggested an idea where you could use SMS to tell small groups what one was doing. It was an idea to keep a group of informed people about...
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...Quick Guide Job-Hunt ® Linkedin for new Graduates By Laura Smith-Proulx Executive Director of An Expert Resume US News & World Report Top Site for Finding Work Job-Hunt.org FOLLOW @JobHuntOrg Like JobHuntOrg JOin Linkedin Job-Hunt Help Group Forbes Best of the Web for Job Hunting Job-Hunt.org PC Magazine Best of the Internet for Careers Job-Hunt.org Job-Hunt® is a registered trademark of NETability, Inc. © 2012, NETability, Inc. All rights reserved. Not for commercial use or modification without prior written permission. Quick Guide: LinkedIn for New Graduates www.job-hunt.org Table of Contents Chapter 1: Why Use LinkedIn? .................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 2: Getting Started.............................................................................................................2 Chapter 3: Using LinkedIn Effectively .........................................................................................5 Chapter 4: How to Continually Leverage LinkedIn..................................................................12 Chapter 5: How to Maximize Your Use of LinkedIn.................................................................14 Chapter 6: LinkedIn for Your Career ..........................................................................................15 © 2012, NETability, Inc. All rights reserved. Not for commercial use or modification without prior written...
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...CASE PROJECT 3 SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES A STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATION REPORT Table of content Content Page 1. Introduction.................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Definitions 1.2 Purpose 1.3 Limitations 2. Implementation.............................................................................................. 5 2.1 Selections Criteria 2.2 Methodology 3. Social Networking Sites................................................................................. 9 3.1 Facebook 3.2 Twitter 3.3 LinkedIn 4. Recommendation......................................................................................... 14 5. Conclusion.................................................................................................... 15 6. Tables I. Figure 1............................................................................................ 7 II. Figure 2............................................................................................ 14 INTRODUCTION The rapid and continuous growth of Social Networking website (SNS) has presided over the greatest increase in social media market exposure capabilities as has been seen in the last decade; this growth has also gone through so many changes in the same period making it difficult for organisations to set a comprehensive strategy to continue to harness this extensive potential...
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...with family and friends, and they use LinkedIn to network with coworkers. Facebook has become a very popular social networking site. “Facebook allows you to blog, establish private networks, share photos, and locate friends” (Bowles, 2013). Facebook allows you to send friends request to the people that you know and want to communicate with via the social network site. Once someone is your friend on Facebook they are able to see your posts and pictures that you share. You are also able to see the things that they share on their Facebook timeline. “A timeline on Facebook is like a big chronology of your life where your posts, photos, and likes will appear daily as you create them” (Bowles, 2013). When you look at your newsfeed you are able to scroll through and see what all of your friends have posted to Facebook. People should always be cautious before posting something to Facebook because depending upon your privacy setting it is available for everyone to see. LinkedIn is a social networking site that is used by professionals. This site requires you to create a profile about yourself like most other social networking sites. “Unlike Facebook, you will spend more time entering a description of your educational background and work history” (Bowles, 2013). Your profile on LinkedIn is like an online version of your resume. Just like other social networking sites you have to add people to your network by inviting them to join. LinkedIn is used by four main groups of people...
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...42 Ken Krogue insidesales.com Jamie Shanks 42 LinkedIn Inside Sales Tips By Ken Krogue and Jamie Shanks IntroductIon 42 The 42 LinkedIn Inside Sales Tips eBook is designed to help you drive new business. You’ll learn critical practices to help you connect better with prospects and customers and increase revenue. Traditional selling channels of email and phone are tried and true, but LinkedIn and other social channels can greatly increase sales performance. Here is a preview on just one of the powerful tips — did you know LinkedIn performs 7 times better than email in some cases? Get social and leave old school selling in the dust. These 42 tips were originally presented by Ken Krogue and Jamie Shanks as a webinar which you can watch here. LInkedIn Is out-pulling email 7-to-1 InsideSales.com | Sales for Life Share this eBook: LInkedIn cheatsheet Jamie ShankS TipS 1 be a tHouGHt leader 7 folloW ‘Hot ProsPects’ 8 timiNG WitHiN folloWers 9 timiNG WitHiN siGNals 10 attack folloWers 11 iNsiGHts iNto tHeir busiNess 2 drive oPPortuNitY 3 tHe secrets WitHiN GrouPs 4 skills as a seo HuNtiNG tool 5 save Your iNmails 6 ‘Hot ProsPects’ iN GrouPs ken krogue TipS 12 Grab Your Name 13 use a Good Picture 14 comPlete Your Profile 15 make Your WeddiNG/fuNeral list 16 coNNect to Your customers 17 folloW Your customer’s comPaNies 18 coNNect to Your emPloYees 19 Have a PoiNt PersoN 20 coNNect to Your ProsPects 21 resPoNd bY email tHeN coNNect 22 coNNect at trade sHoWs...
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...Gaining Talented Employees in a Globalized Business Environment Many organizations struggle with gaining talent when operating in a globalized business environment, as the internationality of a company leads to new challenges that the human resource department needs to take care of. In the following short essay, these challenges will be illustrated along the whole process of gaining talent, from initially attracting it, to the selection process, and finally, the efforts of retaining talent inside the company. Attracting Talent In the process of attracting talent in a globalized business environment, numerous steps can be taken by the organization in order to ensure appearing as an attractive employer. One of the steps is effective university marketing, which is a large priority for every global organization. As all universities are interested in having close relationships with potential future employers of their students and branding themselves with a large company network, building up a partnership with universities imposes are win-win situation for all three parties involved, the company, the university, and the students themselves. When selecting universities for university marketing, it is important for the global company to choose those that have the reputation to have an international student body and want to have a global company network. When looking into the level of internationality of a university, ranking institutions like the Financial Times [1] and QS [2]...
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...The Social Web: Voluntarily Tangled Mila Rokdack INF103: Computer Literacy Michael Chu June 24th, 2013 The social web is a set of social relations that link people through the World Wide Web. Websites have various functions and uses, but the most popular these days, are that of the social realm. Now days, people rarely pick up the phone and call each other. We no longer mail photographs to loved ones with letters attached. If we want to catch up with someone, we don’t write or call, we log on. Viewing someone’s Facebook page, and writing on their wall is the quickest way today to get in touch with someone. With privacy and copyright issues, surfing the social web can be a risky and comes with certain repercussions, but the benefits and advances, keep us coming back to get voluntarily tangled in the social web. With the development and growth in technology, communicating on the social web is at an all time high. Between our laptops, tablets, desktop computers and smartphones, keeping in touch with one another has never been easier. The most popular websites on the social web include: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Instagram, Flikr, Pinterest, Google, YouTube and the list goes on. Among these, one of the most versatile and widely used social networking website is Facebook, “Facebook was the number one social networking site for friends, with 1.1 billion visits in January 2009” (Bowles, 2010). A better understanding of facebook can be stated as, “Facebook (which...
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...importantly I am a photographer. Although I am not a professional photographer, I am dedicated and love what I do. Photography to me tells a story that no one else knew happened, even if you were there in the picture yourself. I’m a former newspaper reporter trying to work as a photographer. I worked for the Benedict College Tigers school newspaper as a news reporter and editor for two years, as an entertainment reporter. I’ve spent a lot of time perfecting my craft of photography since I graduated from Benedict College. Along with perfecting my craft, I have shot for different occasions such as weddings, birthday parties, anniversaries and engagements. I also served on the newsletter for an LGBT Greek organization, Phi Nu Kappa Sorority, Inc., for a year. While working on the Benedict College newspaper, I was able to work with other students from Prairie View University during the Historically Black Universities and College National Journalist Conference. While working with Prairie View, I was able to write about the tragedy that happened in Haiti. I am also a frequent volunteer at Habitat for Humanity and Harvest Hope Food Bank. I believe in chances and everyone being able to have one. People mess up, that’s what makes us human. I also believe that if you are going to give someone a chance, you shouldn’t hold their past over their heads in anticipation that...
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...ACHSAF LinkedIn Corp., 2008 Late in June 2008, a year and a half after becoming CEO of the online professional networking service LinkedIn, Dan Nye announced that a new funding round had given the company a $1 billion valuation. Investors, led by the private equity firm Bain Capital Ventures, had purchased a 5% stake in LinkedIn for $53 million. As a result, Nye now had ample resources to put toward accelerating his company’s already phenomenal growth. LinkedIn, based in Mountain View, California, had signed up more than 23 million users for its service, and that figure was increasing at a rate of 1.2 million new users per month.1 (See Exhibit 1 for information on LinkedIn’s membership growth.) Among members of the service were top executives at every company on the Fortune 500 list.2 “LinkedIn is now so prevalent and so valuable that you have to join it,” said Nye, a Harvard Business School graduate (Class of 1994) and a former executive at Advent Software and Intuit.3 Nye understood that LinkedIn, like the ambitious professionals whom it served, could not stand still. He had arrived at the company in February 2007, and since then LinkedIn had launched a European-based operation, opened up its platform to third-party software developers, and increased its head count from 60 to 310.4 A mere half-decade after its founding, the company had already turned profitable, and it was on track to bring in revenues of $75 million to $100 million in 2008.5 Now, in mid-2008, LinkedIn signaled...
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...Aspects of Interactivity, Hypertext and Hypermedia, and Social Media: Facebook, Friendster, Blogs and Second Orality, Construction of Reality and Multimedia and Ideology Synopsis Paper by: 2000-54307 ARADA, Blancaflor P. The Media Construction of Reality As I read this article, I remembered the Manila hostage crisis last August 23, 2010. Because Philippine media wanted to report factual details and information, the news network became too involved with the hostage crisis. Based on Wikipedia entry, “TV5 news anchor Erwin Tulfo remained in permanent contact with Mendoza, while superintendent Orlando Yebra and chief inspector Romeo Salvador led the negotiations. By this time, several major television channels in Manila and Hong Kong had replaced their programmes with non-stop live coverage of the hostage situation, and live footage became available worldwide. The news networks were allowed to film police activity, and as the bus was equipped with a television, the gunman was able to watch and find out what the police were doing, and was even able to find the locations of snipers” (Wikipedia, 2013). What made Mendoza snapped out was when his brother and son were taken away by the police in the live television coverage. This resulted to a failed hostage rescue attempt because eight (8) hostages were killed. It may be the Philippine National Police’s fault, or Mayor Alfredo Lim’s or Vice-Mayor Isko Moreno’s, or even President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s, but there is no doubt that...
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...Mark Zuckerberg, is an online social networking service open to anyone who is at least 13 years old. After registering to the site, users can create a user profile and add other users as ‘friends’. Once a user becomes ‘friends’ with someone they are able to receive notifications when their friends update their profile. Facebook had over 1.44 billion monthly active users as of March 2015. Facebook provides many opportunities to individuals, including the ability to sell goods and services through ‘groups’; make new friends and connect with old school friends through the search function. * LinkedIn: Business-oriented social networking service. As of June 2013, LinkedIn reports more than 259 million acquired users. Its main purpose is to help people network professionally, find jobs and help you find other business associates, clients, and colleagues whom you already know. LinkedIn can be used to market products, reach out to the person of interest and on the other hand find jobs and connect with professionals. Media Sharing: * YouTube: Video sharing website created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 but was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion for $1.65 billion and now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. The site allows users to upload, view, and share videos. Available content includes video clips, TV clips, music videos, and other content such as video blogging. YouTube provides the opportunity for individuals to create original content to connect...
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...Professional a) Pros: Job hunting, networking, latest and greatest in your field b) Cons: Companies with policies, distractions from work, not having a “filter” or restrictions 4. Personal a) Pros: Communication with family, meeting new and old friends, new ideas and activities b) Cons: Hacking and virus', permanent postings, addiction 5. Children a) Pros: Be computer literate, connection with family members, accepting of diversity b) Cons: Face-to-face time lost, less playing outside, college/job interference 6. Education, moderation, self control Social Media: Does it Do More harm than Good? It's hard to believe social media started in 1985. Quantum Computer Services Inc., which later becomes America Online Inc. launched its first online service, Q-Link, according to Washingtonpost.com. Shortly after in 1989 Instant Messenger and the greeting "Welcome! You've got mail" debuted. However, the AOL that most of society recalls didn't become available until 1995. This is the stepping stone for My Space, facebook, and Twitter. Social networking sites have grown so popular today that many individuals, especially teenagers, reference them in their everyday language and conversations. A social networking site enables users to create profiles within it to interact with others. Now we as a society have to ask ourselves are the benefits worth the consequences of social media and do we rely on it too much? With the advances in technology...
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...MBA – Management and Strategy E-Business QRT2 Task 1 February 13, 2014 1. Viability of Product or Service: Horsepower Towing is a sole proprietorship business established by Tyler Loveridge in the early 2000’s in Lehi, Utah. Horsepower offers a variety of services including towing, law enforcement, truck maintenance, and trucking. Horsepower started out as a single truck towing service and has steadily grown into various services to the company it is today. Horsepower began expanding its towing capabilities shortly following inception to include contracting out towing for law enforcement. This included, but was not limited to DUIs, accidents, and suspended licenses. In 2010, Horsepower continued its growth and set up a division for long-haul trucking. Because of its now diverse product and service offering, Horsepower can greatly benefit from developing a website and gaining a much stronger online presence. Currently, Horsepower Towing does not have an official website. Most of the contact information can be found online by a general Google search, but no website with offerings, testimonials, or other valuable information exists. Horsepower will see a significant increase in interest throughout the area because not only are they in an industry where technology does not have a strong presence, but also the general population is using technology more and more to find business. Also by going online, Horsepower can become a more recognized brand and have much more...
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...Unit 3 – Sampling Teri Isbell American InterContinental University Abstract Three different types of surveys will be discussed for sample size and how they compare to each other. A personal survey’s information is provided and the breakdown of the answers is shown in charts for review. A personal opinion regarding how survey information can be used with a business or other service is discussed. Introduction An entertainment, political, and general survey will be examined for sample size and discussed in this paper. A personal survey will also be reviewed and additional information will be discussed as to how they relate to each other and how the information could be used in a business or other setting. Part 1: Survey Analysis: Entertainment Social gaming is taking the desktop and console gaming world to new heights by attracting gamers that might not have every touched a video game before according to Shaer, (2010). He reports that 56.8 million American consumers over the age of 6 had participated in social game playing over the past three months. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the 2010 population was 281,421,906, and Shaer’s 56.8 million consumers represent approximately 20% of the overall population. I was surprised to find the accuracy in Shaer’s numbers representing one-fifth of the U.S. population in 2010. That is a staggering number of people doing nothing more than playing games! To further understand the impact these numbers have on social gaming...
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