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...time has a connotation of not full commitment," says Timothy Butler, who chairs the Harvard program, which cost attendees $5,000 apiece. Cheaper options include iRelaunch's $125 one-day return-to-work sessions around the country and its new $19.99 webinars. The first topic: What the heck is LinkedIn, and how can it be used as a job-search tool...
...clearly borrows key elements of Obama's groundbreaking tactic for generating record levels of donations with innovative social-networking tools. He calls himself a "technology geek," and already posted on the RNC's main website is his "Network for the Future," which features links to Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, LinkedIn and blip.tv. At the very least, Steele knows his party needs to play catch...
Network digitally. For help in landing a job, the unemployed are digging ever deeper into their address books, not to mention their favor banks. And they're not just dialing up old friends and recruiters. They're also digitizing their Rolodexes. LinkedIn, a professional-networking site whose members' average household income is $110,000, has 32 million members. A new member signs up every second; a million join every two weeks. The site, which has new job-search functions in the works, already lets employment seekers figure out what connections they have to people who work at companies that...
Jamie Templeton, LinkedIn's vice president of platform development, said the key to opening the network to outside developers is making sure every application provides value to a business user. LinkedIn's members, he said, "are professionally oriented. They want to come in and get the job done. They don't have tolerance for a signal-to-noise ratio that other populations...
Compare, for instance, how apps spread on Facebook: When a user installs an application, that action is communicated to his friends via a news feed. That won't happen on LinkedIn. And likewise, if you recommend a book to one of your LinkedIn contacts via the "Reading List by Amazon" application, the contact doesn't need to install the Amazon app to get the recommendation...