First, some housekeeping: Every Wednesday night, we run the report on what stories were most shared by LinkedIn’s 135-plus million members. That means the news of Facebook’s coming IPO — announced Wednesday, Feb. 1 — had only one day to attempt to rocket to the top of our rankings. A Mashable story about the IPO [...]
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Email phishing, in which someone tries to trick you into revealing personal information by sending fake emails that look legitimate, remains one of the biggest online threats. One of the most popular methods that …
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Posted in Email, Google Tags: Adam Dawes, Dkim, Dmarc, Dollars Each Year, Domain Spoofing, Fake Email, Fake Emails, Google, Google Apps Blog, Industry Groups, linkedin, Mail Providers, Mail Senders, Manager Email, Passionate Collection, Paypal, Phishing, Scammers, Spf, Spoof, Standard Protocol Comments OffIs SOPA really dead? If you believe Mashable’s headline – in what is our most shared story of the week – the Stop Online Piracy Act has moved on to its final resting place. But if you read the words of the act’s chief sponsor, Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, it sounds more like SOPA is [...]
Posted in Email, Social Networks Tags: American Innovators, Bad News, Chief Sponsor, Creators, Dormitory, Final Resting Place, Harbinger, Jan 19, Job In India, Lamar Smith, linkedin, linkedin-news, Marketing Consultant, Mashable, Piracy, Professional Conversation, Prolific Author, Recession, Seth Godin, Smelling Salts, Twitter Comments OffEd. note: This is a guest post from UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, on the Red Tape Challenge aimed at reducing regulation in UK and the accompanying LinkedIn poll and group that’s been used to gather feedback from our UK members on the topic. After just a few days, hundreds of LinkedIn users have [...]
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Posted in Email, Social Networks Tags: Burdens, Business Models, Challenge Ed, David Cameron, Economic Growth, Ed Note, Europe, International, linkedin, Minded Community, Minister David, New Business, Patent Process, Peer To Peer Lending, Possible Solutions, Prime Minister, Red Tape, Regulatory Landscape, Respondents, uk, Uk Government, Uk Members, Vagaries Comments OffCome every new year, getting back in shape is often on our minds. To help with our new year’s resolutions, the first InDay of 2012 was focused on Health and Wellness. Last year Mountain View set the bar on January InDay for health and wellness, but this year the rest of the world showed Mountain [...]
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Posted in Email, Social Networks Tags: Browser Time, Bugfix, Css File, Getting Back In Shape, Health And Wellness, Health Wellness, Inday, linkedin, LinkedIn Indays, Mountain View, Resolutions, Rest Of The World, Singapore Office, Spinner Icon, Tai Chi, Timeout, Wellness Activities, Whitesox, Wrapper Style, Yoga Classes, Yoga Session Comments OffNot since the death of Steve Jobs in the fall of 2011 has one story so dominated the attention of professionals. The fight over the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA — a U.S. House of Representatives bill designed to block online copyright violations — took three of the top five headlines in our weekly [...]
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Posted in Email, Social Networks Tags: Aerospace Workers, Aviation And Aerospace, Chief Architect, Chris Heald, Controversial Internet, Criminal Record, Forbes, Internet Piracy, Jan 19, linkedin, linkedin-news, Mashable, Media Trends, Obama, Pipa, Popular Song, Qr Codes, Sopa, Steve Jobs, Uncategorized, Video Service, Web Users Comments OffWhat is an entrepreneur? According to Eric Schurenberg, the editor of Inc.com, the singular definition was created 37 years ago by Harvard Business School professor Howard Stevenson: Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled. In other words, an entrepreneur spots a goal and ignores all the reasons why he or [...]
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Posted in Email, Social Networks Tags: 37 Years, Business Today, Career Path, Clear Path, Common Goal, Deterrents, Froggers, Google, Harvard Business School, Joe Reynolds, Juggernaut, linkedin, linkedin-news, Path Path, Professor Howard Stevenson, Scarcity, School Professor, Singular Definition, Startups, Vacation Days, Vacation Rules Comments OffHi, I hope all is well. A small favor: Would you mind socializing this blog post with your colleagues and ideating a response? Two sentences, three of the worst management terms of 2011, according to Business Insider. Some of the others: weaponize, socialize, internalize, ideate. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard weaponize used in a [...]
Posted in Email, Social Networks Tags: American Educators, Best Buy, Business Insider, Buzzword, Buzzwords, Forbes, Free Online Education, Frivolity, Going Out Of Business, Ideate, Ideated, Independent Schools, linkedin, linkedin-news, Management Terms, Private Universities, Race To The Bottom, School Success, Seven Habits, Small Favor, Tuition Fees, Uncategorized Comments OffWhat a year! We thought a perfect way to wrap-up the year would be to take a look at this year’s most popular blog posts, shining a spotlight on many of our key LinkedIn moments this year. As you skim through the most popular LinkedIn pictures and posts this year (right below the slideshow), you [...]
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Posted in Email, Social Networks Tags: Armen Vartanian, Bay To Breakers, Bell Ringing, Birthday Celebration, Celebrity Judge, Cinco De Mayo, Diwali, Executive Team, Festival Of Lights, Free Coffee, Health And Fitness, Inday, Jeff Weiner, Kevin Smith, linkedin, LinkedIn Blog, Mad Cow, Nyse, Sneak Peak, Team Marketing, Top Chef Comments OffWith the year ending, we wanted to know what stories were the most appealing to more than 130 million professionals on LinkedIn. Here’s what we found: there is a massive demand for information on how to be better at work. No surprise there! But the demand is democratic: the top articles featured tips gleaned from [...]
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