LinkedIn News

Below is an extract of an article written by Emma Barnett of the Daily Telegraph, Saturday March 20th.

LinkedIn, currently the largest professional network, with three million UK members and 60 million worldwide, (compared to Facebook’s 23 million UK membership and 300 million users worldwide) is about to integrate its service with Microsoft Outlook, the world’s most popular work email service. This development, says Kevin Eyres, European managing director of LinkedIn, marks the tipping point for the service.

The full article can be read here.

We recently ran a webinar on the basics of setting up your profile on LinkedIn – please contact shona@kintish.co.uk if you would like to see a recording.

LinkedIn, has hit a new milestone, declaring it now has three million members in the UK!

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Kintish are pleased to announce our new programme of LinkedIn training workshops for 2010. Whether it’s Beginners LinkedIn Training, Advanced LinkedIn Training or LinkedIn web seminars, we have the course for you. Click on the appropriate link, or contact us for more details.

Read this story and look out for exciting new uses in 2010.

http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/11/18/linkedin-microsoft-outlook-connector/

Neil McKay, chief executive of SEO firm Lakestar has recently said that "People need to look more at integrated social media strategies in tandem with search engine optimisation campaigns, because social media pages are featuring higher and higher in Google results."

He also added "Companies need to embrace social media to have a chance of having some control over what is said about them online. People will talk about your brand, or your product where ever they feel like it."

This is just one of many reasons as to why you should be making the most of your LinkedIn profile, why not see some tips and ideas to get you started?

Kintish are proud to annouce that we will be running half day workshops on how you can use LinkedIn as a successful part of your business development! "How to Get the Best out of LinkedIn" will be coming to Manchester on the 1st July, and London on 7th July.

Reid Hoffman speaks at the IoD Annual Convention on the benefits of LinkedIn, and its importance in modern business development nowadays. See extracts from Reid’s speech, or video highlights from the conference.