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Abstract Blogs, mailing lists and networking sites are much in the news, but how effective are they for business users? David Thew is Joint MD of an executive search and recruitment consultancy with an active need to identify and contact people on a targeted basis. In this article he profiles LinkedIn, the business networking membership site that has become a key channel for him and his staff. David looks at key features and benefits and also discusses areas where he feels there is room for improvement

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Is social media the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Eric Qualman from Socialnomics thinks so! This is another great visualisation of the latest social media statistics that always makes for a few minutes well spent watching! It provides a range of great stats like these… By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers 96% of them have joined a social network 1 out of 8 couples married in the US last year have met via social media Facebook added 100 million users in 9 months If Facebook would be a country, it would be the world?s 4th largest 80% of companies are using LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices. People update anywhere, anytime. Imagine what that means for bad customer experiences? In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world There are over 200.000.000 Blogs. 54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily.

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