In 2011 we presented over 1.000+ facts about social media around the world. Today, this study and 128-slide presentation contains over 2.000 facts & figures about social media in 19 countries. Wow! [slideshare id=14426292&doc=socialmediaaroundtheworld-120924031822-phpapp02] Topics… 2.000 facts & figures about Social Media around the world 2012
LinkedIn released today new data about its popularity among small business professionals. They looked at how many small business professionals are already LinkedIn members. For the purposes of this study, LinkedIn defined small business professionals… How to leverage LinkedIn for small business professionals
But Job Boards, Online Networking Gain Ground
Person-to-person networking continues to be job seekers’ most successful tool, according to a study by Right Management. The firm analyzed job data on the nearly 60,000 individuals throughout North America to whom it provided career transition services over the past three years. Traditional networking was the source of new career opportunities for 41% of job candidates last year, while Internet job boards accounted for 25% of new positions landed.
Source of New Job
(59,133 job seekers)
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2010 |
2009 |
2008 |
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| Networking | 41% | 45% | 41% |
| Internet Job Board | 25% | 19% | 19% |
| Agency/Search firm | 11% | 9% | 11% |
| Direct Approach | 8% | 8% | 8% |
| Online Network (2010) | 4% | na | na |
| Advertisement | 2% | 7% | 7% |
| Other | 10% | 12% | 14% |
Being a group owner of a 100.000+ LinkedIn member group I’ve seen a lot of spam / fake accounts and block (‘Flag’) many spam accounts every day. Fake accounts are used by spammers who are… Identifying fake LinkedIn members
While LinkedIn continues to dominate social recruiting at 93% adoption (up from 87% in 2011 and 78% in 2010), Facebook and Twitter saw bigger growth margins in the past twelve months.
On Friday 30 June 2012, LinkedIn announced that Twitter no longer supports a full integration with their platform i.e. it’s no longer possible to update your LinkedIn status via Twitter. The idea behind this new… Twitter breaks up with LinkedIn. The beginning of the end of Twitter?
Congratulations of being part of a 100.000 members LinkedIn group! On January 26, 2008, the Recruitment Consultants and Staffing Professionals Group was created to provide a platform for Recruiters with quality contacts, jobs and discussions. It was not the first Recruitment/Recruiter group but soon after a few industry leaders, like Shally Steckerl, joined this group it grew to the second-largest Recruiter group on LinkedIn. Today it’s still one of the largest groups on LinkedIn, in top 60 of a total 1,300,000 groups.
Here are some more compelling facts & figures in an infographic: Connecting 100,000 Recruitment Consultants [INFOGRAPHIC]
Did you know that Facebook is responsible for 20% of all US Internet traffic? That might explain why they’re worth approximately 100 Billion Dollars these days. Here’s a list of the most compelling facts and figures about Facebook.com.
Everything you wanted to know about Facebook – Facts and Figures 2012
According to a recent Google survey of smartphone users 93% use their smartphones while traveling and more and more users today are accessing the internet from a mobile device than from a computer. Linkedin mobile page views are growing at 400% p.a. and mobile already accounts for 22% of page views and visits. However we had to wait for a better user experience on tablets until today as LinkedIn announced the release of the LinkedIn for iPad app!
It’s an updated version of their iPhone app so there’s no need to download a special app, just update (or download) the LinkedIn app and install it on your iPad. You’ll notice that you’ll get almost the same experience as the iPhone app. But they did add an extra feature; calendar. The LinkedIn iPad app can sync with your device calendar to incorporate Linkedin profile data about each attendee to help you understand “who” you are meeting with. In my opinion the best feature is the LinkedIn News section where you can read about relevant topics from your network and the most popular topics in your field (similar to the very popular Flipboard news app). A lot of people will like also that the list of people who’ve looked at your profile is the first thing you’ll see in the profile section.
In addition to the iPad app, they also launched a new mobile web experience for the Safari browser on iPad. It has exactly the same features and look as the iPad app. Try it here: tablet.linkedin.com.
