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Our Unmissable Reads From this Week

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

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

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

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

Viadeo partners with Q&A expert Mancx and joins the knowledge market

Knowledge is power, as Foucault put it. Whoever retains it makes the rules. So it is only logical that it should become a business, with regulations to make the most of it, and allow as many people as possible to have access to that incredible source of power. 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 kind […]

Viadeo at LeWeb’11: Part Four

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!

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 […]

Viadeo in Russia!

Viadeo in Russia!

We have some exciting news - Viadeo is now active in Russia. Viadeo is proud to announce a joint venture with Sanoma Independent Media, Russia’s leading publishing house. The partnership will develop and strengthen Viadeo’s presence in Russia and will allow Russian professionals to become part of one of the world’s largest professional social networks. Another goal of the partnership will be to develop business services for the Russian market, supported by Viadeo’s social networking expertise and the local strength of […]

Viadeo at LeWeb’11: Part Three

Viadeo at LeWeb’11: Part Three

If you liked our first and second collections of interviews from LeWeb 2011, you’re in for a treat! As you may know, this year, Viadeo was lucky enough to attend the highly anticipated LeWeb conference in Paris from the 6th-9th of December. The conference attracts some of the most influential entrepreneurs, start-ups and innovative leaders from around Europe. We set up a pop-up TV studio to interview impressive infleuncers on hot tech trends, start-ups to watch in 2012 and what […]

Viadeo at LeWeb’11: Part Two

Viadeo at LeWeb’11: Part Two

We’re back with a second instalment of interviews from our pop-up Viadeo TV studio at LeWeb11. If you enjoyed the first collection of our LeWeb interviews, this is a batch you won’t want to miss! On Day two, we talked to an impressive line-up of entrepreneurs and industry leaders about hot tech trends to watch in 2012, start-ups we should look out for and what their companies have been up to in 2011. Check out what we learned from speaking with […]