Our Reading Essentials from This Week
Every day the Viadeo Twitter feed (@Viadeo) shares a collection of interesting, inspiring or helpful blog posts and articles with our followers. Usually centred around business, marketing, social media and technology, our weekly aggregator features five of the posts that we most enjoyed reading over the last week. This week we’re back with another dose of read-worthy posts for everyone. Take a look and tell us what you think! 1. “5 Things I look for in a Great Job Interview” […]
Stay Connected to Your Network Wherever You are: Viadeo for BlackBerry
Viadeo is pleased to announce the next step in our mobile journey. This month, we unveiled the Viadeo application for BlackBerry! The application, initially available in French, English and Spanish, aims to help you make your professional social networking experience more convenient and user-friendly. The app permits all BlackBerry users and Viadeo members to: Stay up to date with network news Discover new contacts and grow their professional networks Share interesting […]
Flashback: Viadeo in 2011
As we settle into the New Year and prepare exciting new endeavours for the next twelve months, we took a moment to look back at what was a very big year for us. 2011 saw Viadeo… …Grow further in emerging markets 2011 was a year marked by significant growth. Not only did we reach our 40 million member mark, but we also experienced encouraging expansion in emerging markets. We’re especially proud of our achievements in China where Viadeo’s Chinese network, Tianji, […]
Our Unmissable Reads From this Week
Every day, we share some of the most interesting blog posts we’ve read on our Twitter channel (@Viadeo). Our weekly aggregator shares 5 of our favourite posts we’ve read during the week. This week, we’ve collected 5 more great posts, all sharing interesting insights and inspiring ideas. What do you think of this week’s collection? 1. Will 2012 be the Year you Start a New Business? By Carol Tice from Entrepreneur This was our first of our favourite posts from the […]
Three Ways Social Media Can Help Your Job Hunt
This month on the Viadeo blog, our chosen theme is “New Year, New You”. We want to give you a hand to achieve your professional goals by bringing you our top tips on recruitment and job hunting. Social media is rapidly reshaping the recruitment landscape. With more people than ever finding jobs through social networks (a recent study by recruiting platform Jobvite revealed that one in six Americans found their jobs through social networks) having a strong online presence is becoming […]
5 Essential Reads from this Week
We’re back with another round-up of great blog posts and tips that we came across this week. In keeping with this month’s blog theme, “New Year, New You”, we’ve selected five posts that share valuable tips on how to improve in a variety of different business areas for the New Year. Small Businesses 10 Ways Small Businesses Can Crush Big Competitors by Corey Eridon from the Hubspot Blog Does your company need a new challenge this year? Why not consider […]
New Year, New You: The First Steps to Using Social Media to Land your Dream Job
This month on the Viadeo blog, our chosen theme is “New Year, New You”. We want to give you a hand to achieve your professional goals by bringing you our top tips on recruitment and job hunting. At the beginning of every year, millions of people around the world make resolutions for the upcoming year. They set themselves a goal, aim to change something they are not satisfied with or vow to do something differently. Whether or not you choose […]
Viadeo partners with Q&A expert Mancx and joins the knowledge market
Knowledge is power, as Foucault put it. Whoever detains it makes the rules. So it is only logical that it should become a business, with regulations to make the most of that incredible source of power, and making it accessible to as many people as possible. Web 2.0 advocates understood very early the dynamics and opportunities of collective knowledge: as Tim O’Reilly explains it, ” an essential part of Web 2.0 is harnessing collective intelligence, turning the Web into a […]
Viadeo at LeWeb’11: Part Four
If you’re interested in tech, hot new start-ups and trends to keep an eye on in 2012, these are four interviews you will not want to miss! We set up a pop-up TV studio at this year’s LeWeb Conference and got the chance to chat with influential entrepreneurs, start-up founders, journalists and tech addicts about what they got up to in 2011, what will be hot in tech in 2012 and emerging trends. Cathy Brooks (@CathyBrooks) , VP of Business Development […]
Viadeo’s MySQL Meetup with Daily Motion, Virgin Mobile & Paybox!
Last month, Viadeo’s Paris headquarters hosted an exciting event about using MySQL. MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database and it’s a critical part of Viadeo technical architecture, because of the incredible amount of data we manage! The event was sponsored by Viadeo and co-organised with LeMUG.fr – the French speaking MySQL User Group organization which facilitates meetings around MySQL. The main aim of this meet up was to share knowledge through case studies and discussion and hear […]
