LinkedIn is by far the biggest Professional Social Network online, with more than 75 million members coming from over 200 countries.  Within the network, individuals can communicate with one another in several ways, from Recommendations to Inmail, from Group discussions to Introductions.

LinkedIn’s potential for recruiting purposes resides in its own complexity. LinkedIn offers several ways to target, communicate and ultimately identify the best potential candidates for a job.  While the abundance of communication channels might seem overwhelming and redundant, the comprehensive overview of these channels presented below should allow you to optimally use the Network for your recruitming activities.

Chris.

Sure to be part of an infinitely longer series…

Robert Greene : King of Facebook 12-14 June 2010
Anelka : King of Facebook 19 june 2010
Find here the World Cup players as ranked by Facebook users, that is by their respective number of mentions on a given day.
Simple and fun. As well as the best way to know who’s buzzing now. Probably applicable for other events…Olympics, Academy Awards, National Elections…

Carve likes it.

Check out this amazing social media stats live page. Whether it be how many new ipad users there have been sold since you joined the page or the amount of tweeting going, it provides almost everything!

New promoted tweets seem to be having an instant impact already

Soft-drink giant Coca-Cola has seen ‘phenomenal’ results from its purchase of promoted tweets on Twitter, witnessing 85 million views within the first 24 hours.

Look at: http://www.iabuk.net/en/1/cocacolaenjoysphenomenalresultsfrompromotedtweets280610.mxs

Interesting website that analyses how well companies are succeeding with social media campaigns. One of their most recent articles from www.techeyetimes.com is about how The Times has lost over 50% of traffic since moving to paid online content. For more info about hitwise go to http://www.hitwise.com/uk/

We’re really pleased to welcome  George Lumbers to the team as our summer intern.

George, who is studying history at Edinburgh, is joining us for one month.  George Tweets at @georgelumbers and would be happy of some new friends ( he’s only got 9, natch)

George comes to us from the nice people at  Wexo, the matchmaking network for work experience, internships and jobs.

In an occasional series entitled “Things you didn’t know about George Lumbers” I can exclusively reveal his one-time DJ moniker was, ahem, “Zest”.

Welcome, George