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The Key to Successful Scaling

March 16, 2020 By Mable-Ann Chang, Manting Chen

Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, looks at how companies can achieve rapid growth and the best way to manage the process.

Filed Under: All Articles, Q&A, Technology, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: Blitzscaling, LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman

Networking 2.0 Series: Online Networking with Chinese Characteristics

August 23, 2017 By Bennett Voyles

Online social networks are changing Chinese professional culture—simply sending out resumes to get a job is inadequate. Compared to Americans, young Chinese spend more time networking and leverage social sites to find jobs. Recruiters are active participants in this trend. As a Shanghai-based employer says: “I don’t even call people anymore.” Instead of waiting for resumes that may contain dull business mug-shots, employers look at applicants’ social profiles, chatting to ones they find interesting and learn about their business and leisure time and maybe, if lucky, get a rough idea of their personality.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, China, Connections, Know China, Technology Tagged With: LinkedIn, online social network;, professional culture, QQ, WeChat

Networking 2.0 Series: How to Work Your Network

August 2, 2017 By Bennett Voyles

Over the past couple decades, we have been told over and over again that the most important sources for job information are weak ties—in other words, acquaintances. But now we have an embarrassment of riches in terms of the tools and platforms available to us. It’s more information than we can ever take in, and we have a vast number of connections with people—connections that are often very vague and shallow. So knowing how to make the most of online networks has become increasingly difficult, even as it has become more important.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Connections Tagged With: Career, LinkedIn, Network, Networking series, online networks;, Social Media

Networking 2.0 Series: Q&A with Julia Hobsbawm, Author of Fully Connected

July 19, 2017 By Bennett Voyles

Today, we pack more computing power in our pocket than it took to get to the moon, and we can send a message to anyone in the world in less than a second. We’re overloaded with information, and as a consequence, many of us feel more anxious, more distracted and less productive. Why? “Unlike computers, we do not have limitless storage nor do we have unlimited time”, writes Julia Hobsbawm in her book Fully Connected. As a social network analyst, she says that people today are struggling with over-connectedness and are searching for meaning. People need to look more closely at what she calls “social health”.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Connections, Q&A Tagged With: Communication, Facebook, Interviews, LinkedIn, Network, Networking series, social network

How LinkedIn China Learnt How to Win Friends and Influence People

July 14, 2015 By Li Hui

In China, LinkedIn is offering its tried and tested formula of professional networking with some unique twists.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Branding, Infographics, Strategy, Winning in China Tagged With: China-fication, Infographics, LinkedIn, Localization, Network, Slider, Social Media, WeChat

China Roundup: LinkedIn Checks into China; Weibo to List on the NASDAQ; and the Renminbi Slides Further

February 28, 2014 By Major Tian

  The week that was: LinkedIn enters China with an innovative model; Sina Weibo plans US listing; the Chinese renminbi depreciates; and banks fight back against internet finance channels.  LinkedIn Connects with China Six months ago people were curious why LinkedIn isn’t blocked in China, like Twitter, Facebook and many other networking sites are. Well, […]

Filed Under: All Articles, China Round-up, Chinese Economy, Connections, Economy, Finance, Know China, Stock Exchange, Technology Tagged With: Alibaba, Apps, China, Facebook, ICBC, Internet FInancing, IPOs, LinkedIn, PBOC, RMB, Sina, Sina Weibo, Slider, Taxis, Tencent, Twitter, WeChat

The Future of Freemium

July 3, 2013 By Ana Swanson

How companies like Tencent are finding ways to keep their services free China is in love with Tencentʼs mobile chatting application, WeChat (Weixin in Chinese). The service—a close copy of the US application WhatsApp but with novel features like a ‘shakeʼ function to add new friends and walkie-talkie-like voice chatting—had more than 260 million users […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, China, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Strategy, Technology Tagged With: Freemium, LinkedIn, Skype, Slider, Tencent, WeChat

Download the June 2013 issue of CKGSB Magazine: Future of Freemium

July 1, 2013 By CKGSB Knowledge

You are invited to download the June issue of CKGSB Magazine. You’ll enjoy articles and interviews like: COVER STORY: The Future of Freemium: In light of the recent debate over whether WeChat should start charging its users, CKGSB Magazine takes a close look at the freemium model in which a company provides the bulk of its services […]

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Technology Tagged With: 3G, 4G, Automobiles, Bottom of the Pyramid, Freemium, IPOs, Jingdong, Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Lenovo, LinkedIn, Lower-Tier Cities, Magazine, Mobile, Real Estate, Rothschild, Skype, Slider, State Owned Enterprises, Stockmarket, Stuart Hart, WeChat

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