The LinkedIn Blog » New Company Updates

We are excited to announce LinkedIn’s new company status updates, that will now let members receive further insights — breaking news about the company, employee moves, relevant job opportunities or the latest on their products and services including multimedia content — directly from the companies they follow.

Follow LinkedIn’s New Company Page!

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Linkedin continues to improve their Company Pages. You can share an update as a business now. The people that follow you will receive the update in their stream.

Within the Real Estate industry there are more Agents on this network than any of the others. As professionals the Brokers are now able to share information that is valuable to their Agents as well as the general public very efficiently.

Go out and join the conversations with your favourite companies today!

OfficialWire: Four Tips For Effective Social Media Use

There is no question about it- social media are changing our lives. Here are four tips on the effective use of social media for individuals and companies

Social media loosely defines all types of communications channels where the contents are created and shared by the people. There are so many types of social media- blogs, flickr and other photo-sharing media, YouTube, LinkedIn, Multiply, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, etc. They have become so ingrained in people’s daily lives and in our society that they really are changing the way people communicate and even how they live their lives.

There are so many uses for social media, and individuals and companies decide how they can really benefit from them. Here are some of the things people should consider doing to maximize the full potential of social media:

Read full article by Lawrence Perry