Tag Archives: linkedin
07
Oct

Linkedin adds Company Status Updates [video]

By • October 7, 2011 • Business to Business, Linkedin, Social Media • Leave a comment

I have been waiting for this to happen for some time. With the growth of Linkedin in South Africa and on a global scale it is only fitting that Linkedin would begin offerring ways for company entities to engage their clients. Linkedin have opened the status updates option for Linkedin. This means that Linkedin company pages [...]

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09
Sep

Who uses Linkedin in South Africa [infographic]

By • September 9, 2011 • Consumer 2.0, Linkedin, Portfolio, Social Media • 6 Comments

I am very proud to present the latest infographic researched, concepted and designed by the team at DigitLab, the social media agency that I lead. Who’s Who on Linkedin in South Africa Linkedin in South Africa has seen a 83% increase in usership over the last 12 months with agriculture and goverment showing the biggest [...]

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06
Sep

Whats the point of Linkedin?

By • September 6, 2011 • Linkedin, Social Media • Leave a comment

In its first minutes as a public company, LinkedIn was valued at roughly $8.5 billion. This made Linkedin the largest internet I.P.O since Google. Linkedin is a social network that focuses on harnessing the power of social technology to improve professional business networking. The website had about 600 000 South African subscribers in 2010 and [...]

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26
May

Does your name affect your chance of success [infographic]

By • May 26, 2011 • Linkedin • 6 Comments

I found an interesting infographic on the names of CEO’s on Linkedin. It seems that if your name is Peter or Deborah you are destined for success. Whereas top sales people and CEO’s all have names that are shorter than four letters (something to think about on your next sales hire). It should have been [...]

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18
Apr

Recruitment Shifts from Social Media

By • April 18, 2011 • Consumer 2.0, Facebook, Linkedin, Recruitment, Social Business • 4 Comments

The recruitment industry in South Africa looks like it is on the rise for the first time in two and a half years. Human Resources South Africa reported “employment grew by 5.6% during March.”As business slowly starts to find its feet again after a rough few years in the global economy recruiters are looking for [...]

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22
Jul

SA Linkedin usage report

By • July 22, 2010 • Linkedin, Social Media • 2 Comments

Linkedin is a great network to take part in. It aids business relationship building, employee recruitment, and idea sharing. I have found that being a part of this network has opened up opportunities to profile myself in a professional manner online and start networking with like minded people in my field of work. I have [...]

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06
May

Coaching the Leadership Coach

By • May 6, 2010 • Social Media Coaching, Social Media Graduates • Leave a comment

Probably the most daunting experience I have ever had was to coach Keith Coats in Social Media. Keith is a well respected and seasoned leadership coach. So I was nervous that I would not hold up under the pressure. Well Keith turned out to be great to coach, he was very interested in learning and [...]

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05
Mar

One-on-one Social Media Coaching

By • March 5, 2010 • Social Media Coaching • 5 Comments

“Ever stood facing the cold pool water when all that stood before you and the shock of the cold water was the commitment to jump? Of course you have. And your hesitancy was most likely being subjected to the taunting of kids already in the pool. Then you jump and there is a split second [...]

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10
Feb

List of Twitter Clients

By • February 10, 2010 • Social Media Coaching • 2 Comments

A twitter client is a programme that can be used to access your twitter account without actually going to the twitter.com website. Twitter clients are becoming increasingly useful as they allow you to customise what you see in twitter and most have now extended their service to facebook as well. Making it easier to manage [...]

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20
Jan

Three reasons why social media does not work for you

By • January 20, 2010 • Social Media • 2 Comments

So you jumped into social media and have found it to be a waste of time and of very little value to you. I want to suggest that maybe the problem is not social media but rather how you are using it. Here are three possible reasons why social media does not work for you: [...]

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