It's always interesting to look back at the past year - 2008, think about what has changed for me during the year, and think about what that means for the next year - 2009. To do my review, I first looked at what I was writing about and what people were reading on my blog in 2008. June 1, 2008 was when Work Literacy Launched. MORE >>

Connect it to your Gmail account (you must provide username and password) or upload your Outlook or Linkedin csv and let it get to work. Leverage the power of Linkedin to find coworkers and those you may have met, or would like to meet, through your primary contact. Those who do it well can have a considerable competitive advantage. MORE >>

accept people into my network on LinkedIn, always open to see how we may be able to work together, to see what value someone will share with me. Most of those I first connected with on LinkedIn, and most often by accepting their invitation to connect. That was circa April/May 2008. MORE >>

Taking another move from the Facebook playbook, LinkedIn has started their own application platform they’re calling “InApps.&#. Instead, Linked in has partnered with well-known companies with business-ready productivity applications to provide apps that users can plug-in to their profile and display on their LinkedIn homepage. MORE >>

in 2008." Highlights include: Employers are starting to allow social media participation more freely in their organizations: The number of organizations that allow social networking for business purposes has increased dramatically to 69 percent in 2008 up from 37 percent last year. Forrester, AIIM, Aberdeen, Gilbane, etc.). do it also. MORE >>