Conference venue: Theatre De Meerse, Hoofddorp, Netherlands 13.00-19.00 hr We are on the dawn of a new business era. Economic growth, ageing populations and the urge to be more agile and different compared to competitors… International Conference Employer Branding – 4 Nov 2010
What do you do when you are the second fast-food chain in the world and are looking for a marketing manager? Whatever you do, do not mention the M… Source: Maximum, China, 2010
I recently presented some statistics and trends 2010 about LinkedIn, based on directly measured visitor stats. Another way of getting a better understanding of the demographics of the LinkedIn user is the LinkedIn Direct Ads section.
In the infographic below an overview is given of some interesting numbers about member participation per country, industry type, company size and job role in LinkedIn. Please note that Gender and Age stats are not accurate due to the fact that these are not mandatory fields on LinkedIn.com (most of the people don’t complete this info so this data is calculated).
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Erik Qualman is the man behind a great series of videos in which the the development, in facts and figures, of social media is beautifully portrait. It had been a while since he published his last video, Social Media ROI in November 2009, but now there is an updated version of the original video ‘Social Media Revolution’ available:
On request and by popular demand, I’ve compiled a list of facts and figures about the most professional networking site; LinkedIn. Did you know that the LinkedIn.com site was launched exactly 7 years ago, on 5 May 2003, and has 66,266,528 members at this moment?
LinkedIn corporation has currently 500 employees with its headquarters based in Mountain View, California and the European office centered in London, England. Their Customer Service center is based in Omaha, Nebraska. They also have smaller (sales) offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Sydney, Mumbai and Amsterdam. The sales offices outside the USA are located in countries where there is relative high penetration or large population of users:
On average 36.5M people visit LinkedIn.com every month. In March 2010 they had the most visitors in one week until today: 15.1 Million. See also the following directly measured weekly stats:
Everything you wanted to know about LinkedIn – statistics and trends 2010
Here are the results of a new social media study conducted in 14 countries worldwide by Insite Consulting. Some interesting findings are: Users log in 2 times per day on average. Personal websites are visited… Social networks around the world 2010
I found this great video from the Institute of CRF about the changes in the labor market which is visually presented with some facts and figures. The story emphasizes the importance of a good workforce… Employer Branding 2010-2020: Changing Workforce