LinkedIn Buys Rapportive, Gets More Social Connectivity

Posted by Shelly Kramer on March 5, 2012 · 7 Comments

ShareLinkedIn’s recent purchase of Rapportive gives the business social networking site even more connectivity. LinkedIn purchased the San Francisco-based Rapportive for a cool $15 million and we’re looking forward to seeing what transpires as a result. Rapportive is a free plugin for Gmail users that works on both Firefox and Chrome browsers. What makes Rapportive [...]

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LinkedIn’s CardMunch App Turns Business Cards Into Contacts

Posted by Shelly Kramer on December 6, 2011 · 6 Comments

Share I’m a huge fan of LinkedIn. In addition to being the biggest business social network with some 135 million+ users worldwide, it is a social networking platform that delivers business leads to me and to my clients on a regular basis. Without question, LinkedIn proves itself worthy of the time we invest there – [...]

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Google Plus Unveils New Features, Supports Google Apps

Posted by Shelly Kramer on November 1, 2011 · 8 Comments

Share After a bit of a quiet period, Google+ is back in the headlines with a host of announcements that were unveiled late last week. With some 40 million Google+ users, some 1 billion pieces of content shared and a wealth of webinars and Google+ experts available for the bargain price of $47 (or less), [...]

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LinkedIn Policy Compromises User Security: Check Your Settings

Posted by Shelly Kramer on August 11, 2011 · 33 Comments

Share LinkedIn, the biggest business social network, has some privacy breach issues of its own and we’ll admit to being more than a little irritated. We wrote yesterday about some Facebook settings of which users were unaware that could potentially leave your browser unprotected and/or make your phone contacts accessible and figured I’d start [...]

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Men Using Social Media? Oh Yeah.

Posted by Shelly Kramer on May 23, 2011 · 1 Comment

Share We work with a number of very large organizations, many of whom are just venturing into the social media realm. Without exception, the prevailing notion we encounter is that social media is for young people. And, in our experience, the people most often likely to ascribe to that notion are middle-aged professionals and businessmen. [...]

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Socially Networked Cities: Where Does Your City Rank?

Posted by Shelly Kramer on March 16, 2011 · 5 Comments

Share Men’s Health just came out with a list that it calls “the most socially networked cities in America.” I say that that’s terrific, but I’d like more information about their data sources. DC, Atlanta, Denver, yup. Austin, Boston, San Francisco and Seattle also in the top 10? Of course – that makes perfect sense. [...]

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Poken Me, Willya?

Posted by Shelly Kramer on February 4, 2010 · 14 Comments

Share I’m headed off to Nashville to the amazing Blissdom conference tomorrow and am already impressed by the smarts exhibited by ConAgra, one of the conference sponsors. The folks at ConAgra were savvy enough to give a group of techie, blogging, busy as all get out women some swag that we can really use. I [...]

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Maximizing LinkedIn – Good Practices for Good Results

Posted by Shelly Kramer on December 8, 2009 · 11 Comments

ShareI’m fortunate to have a group of very bright, very successful friends – many of whom I know via the world of social mediums. Erica Friedman is one of them, and is a regular LinkedIn user and contributor. She’s written a terrific post about how to get the most out of LinkedIn, so read on [...]

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