Daily Archives: 22 March, 2011

LinkedIn crosses 100m member mark, proving the recession is not bad for everyone [infographic]

LinkedIn has said today it has now crossed the 100 million member mark – a nice milestone, and a good headline for a company that is probably going to be publically listed this year.

LinkedIn has released a whole load of statistics about its membership, showing that nearly 18 million people have troubled themselves to join some kind of professional group on LinkedIn and that 1.2 million posts are made by members each week. Quite impressive (especially if you’re under the impression that no one uses it and it’s all about Facebook and Twitter these days). Read More »

BBC asleep at the social media breaking news wheel

Great coverage coming out of the BBC News website as the Libyan crises unfolds.

It is pulling in real-time updates from across the web and is being updated minute by minute. All good stuff. Not so its Twitter account which last saw an update 14 hours ago. Read More »

Yes your next CV should definitely be an infographic [infographic]

A little while ago I asked the question will your next CV be an infographic? A lot of you liked that post as it was widely shared. If you haven’t already heard by now the answer is a big fat yes courtesy of Chris Spurlock.

A couple of weeks after I asked that question Spurlock saw his  infographic  resume (below) go viral after appearing on the Huffington Post’s college site, HuffPost College.  The next step? Huffpo hired the journalism gradate to design infographics. Nice job. Read More »