By Vanessa Dennis - Back in February, CareerBuilder quietly launched BrightFuse, a business network that is being marketed as a forum for the masses. Richard Castellini, VP of Consumer Marketing for CareerBuilder, said, "We looked at social networking...and we saw that it's something that's not going away, and that CareerBuilder should be involved with and understand it, so we launched BrightFuse. What's always been the number one way for people to recruit is referrals, which is essentially networking, and it makes sense for us to provide our job seekers with a platform for which they can develop themselves from a professional standpoint."
Continue reading...Monday, October 6, 2008
By Vanessa Dennis - IBM is throwing their hat into the professional networking ring by introducing Bluehouse, an SaaS product that delivers a suite of collaboration tools, now in beta.
Continue reading...Monday, September 29, 2008
By Vanessa Dennis - Recent reports show that professional networking site LinkedIn has seen a substantial increase in memberships since the financial sector took its latest hit.
Continue reading...Thursday, September 18, 2008
By Vanessa Dennis - A new professional networking site has launched called TransActions.ie, which claims to encourage business-to-business transactions, "unlike competitor LinkedIn." Their business development manager said such B2B networking on LinkedIn is "nearly frowned upon."
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 16, 2008
By Vanessa Dennis - Here are some highlights from a list of 55 tips, tricks, and strategies for networking on LinkedIn, created by Geoff Peterson at General Lead, a staffing services provider.
Continue reading...Thursday, September 4, 2008
By Vanessa Dennis - LinkedIn is gearing up for prime time. CEO Dan Nye has announced that the professional networking site, now 27 million users strong, is partnering with financial news channel CNBC to exchange content.
Continue reading...Friday, August 22, 2008
By Joel Cheesman - CVGadget enables you to plug in a name and search results across a variety of popular services, from Google to Facebook to Zoominfo to LinkedIn and more.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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