By Doug on November 7, 2008
LinkedIn launched the LinkedIn Events module: Announcing LinkedIn Events. You get event recommendations, you can indicate if you are going and you can see who else is going. Once you mark an event, it shows up on your LinkedIn profile.
This is a great feature, but not a new idea. I have been a fan of [...]
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By Doug on October 29, 2008
One of my earlier concerns about LinkedIn was that it was very static and was little more than an online rolodex. They just launched a new applications feature that could dramatically changed LinkedIn.
These applications allow you to pull content from other sources into your LinkedIn profile, making it much more dynamic. Just a few minutes [...]
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By Doug on October 23, 2008
Greg Lambert over at the 3 Geeks and a Law Blog did a study of large law firm usage using LinkedIn Groups.
He ranked the firms by number of members in the group. Skadden, Arps came in first place with 839 members in the Skadden Alumni LinkedIn group. Goodwin Procter came in 16th place for [...]
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By Doug on August 7, 2008
Last summer, I surveyed The Firm’s summer associates to see how they use some of the popular social networking sites: A Survey on the Use of Social Networks and Updated Social Network Site Survey. I ran the same survey this summer to see what changes have happened over the past year.
90% of the summer associates [...]
Posted in KM Space blog posts | Tagged facebook, LinkedIn, social networks
By Doug on July 3, 2008
In my previous post [LinkedIn is Now For Lawyers] I was impressed with integration of Martindale-Hubbell with LinkedIn.
Steve Matthews of Stem Legal pointed out that what I thought was a special integration is actually just using LinkedIn’s API. Steve doles out the details in a comment to Kevin O’Keefe’s post [If you [...]
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By Doug on July 2, 2008
The venerable Martindale-Hubbell directory of lawyers and law firms has teamed up with LinkedIn to provide a social networking function to the listings in LinkedIn.
When I go to the listing for Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in Martindale-Hubbell, I see the blue LinkedIn icon next to the name of the firm. If you click on the [...]
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By Doug on June 20, 2008
In yesterday’s post, LinkedIn is Worth $1 Billion, I had a clear mathematical error in computing Bain Capital’s interest in LinkedIn.
In the meanwhile, I stumbled across 100+ Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn and Stephen Smith’s LinkedIn and Productivity.
Perhaps those sites will give you more value than my math.
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By Doug on June 19, 2008
The New York Times ran an article on LinkedIn in Yesterday’s paper: At Social Site, Only the Businesslike Need Apply. (by Brad Stone)
Most interesting was the value assigned to the company as part of a new capital investment. Bain Capital invested $53 million. Apparently this was approximately 18.9% 5.3% of the company, [...]
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