Calling all serious connectors and business networkers,
For our 62nd Social Mixer, we have the pleasure of inviting Olivier LeGrand, APAC Head of Marketing Solutions for LinkedIn, which operates "the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 175 million members in over 200 countries and territories".
Sign up on LinkedIn (yes, they do have an event app too!). As of 21st September, 48 people have signed up via this app already.
[Thanks once again to the creative folk at
Digital Butter for producing the backdrop image above].
We will be looking at the adoption of LinkedIn in Asia, how it is being used to bridge business connections across national boundaries and what types of communities are most active in each Asian country. This year, LinkedIn set up sales offices in Singapore and Hong Kong, so we will also be finding out what they sell and to whom. Expect some cheeky questions about their stock price!
In my research, I dug up an old post from November 2010 entitled, "
LinkedIn - Facebook for Suits"! Do take a look as I introduced several services that have become the norm now.
Here are some additional statistics that I pilfered off their
press site (I removed the dates as they are repetitive, most are "as of Q1 2012"):
- 2 new members sign up to join LinkedIn every second.
- 62% of LinkedIn members are located outside of the United States.
- LinkedIn is available in 18 languages: English, Czech, Dutch, French, German,
Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,
Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
- Of total 175 million members, 25M in Asia Pacific, 16M in India, 3M in Australia, 4M in Southeast Asia, 1M in Indonesia and 1M in the Philippines and 400,000 in Hong Kong.
- LinkedIn members did nearly 4.2 billion professionally-oriented searches in 2011 and are on pace to surpass 5.3 billion in 2012. (So, it's worth optimising your profile!).
- LinkedIn counts executives from all 2011 Fortune 500 companies as members; its corporate hiring solutions are used by 85 of the Fortune 100 companies.
- More than 2 million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages.
- More than 75,000 developers are using LinkedIn APIs to create innovative tools and services
for professionals.
- There are more than one million unique publishers actively using the LinkedIn Share button on
their sites to send content into the LinkedIn platform.
- LinkedIn members are sharing insights and knowledge in more than one million LinkedIn
Groups.
- 23% of unique visiting members come from mobile apps, versus just 10% one year ago. That number reaches 27% when including mobile visits to the website.
This month's mixer is slap in the middle of
Social Media Week, which is held simultaneously in 13 cities around the world. Please do sign up and support some of the other exciting events happening during the week. The event will kick off at
6:30pm and finish at
9:30pm with the interview starting at around
7:15pm.
Share the love and come connect with the local Digerati! We are taking questions in advance on Twitter, using the hashtag "
#wwhkv62".