Posted on Nov 22, 2011 | 0 comments
Watching the large audience frantically scribble down every point of PeopleLinx’s CEO, Nathan Egan’s talk at last week’s Social Media Plus Summit, you would have thought it was a room of college seniors preparing for the toughest final exam ever created.
Nathan presented persuasive and compelling points about how LinkedIn should not be thought of as just “social media” but as a business software on par with large CRM or ERM databases. The well received talk was a successful start to the two-day event last week at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
PeopleLinx continued to bring out all the stops during the convention by providing free professional headshots to those who stopped by our exhibit booth. Hundreds of visitors and thousands of pictures later, it was another successful convention for...
Posted on Nov 14, 2011 | 0 comments
To use a favorite quote from Austin Powers: “Allow myself to introduce… myself.”
My name is Michael Best, and I am the newest member of the PeopleLinx team. As I enter day one of the rest of my life, my new title is “Marketing and Operations Manager”, charged with increasing the marketing presence of PeopleLinx, while simultaneously improving our internal efficiency to better serve our growing client list.
Through my many responsibilities, I will likely interact with many of you on a daily basis. Feel free to get in touch with me at mbest@peoplelinx.com; I am looking forward to meeting you.
A bit more about me: I am a 2011 graduate of Villanova University where I majored in marketing and economics and earned a minor in entrepreneurship. I also spent six months abroad studying and working in Galway and Dublin, Ireland. I love...
Posted on Nov 8, 2011 | 0 comments
11/8/2011
For its second year running, Philadelphia welcomes the Social Media Plus conference. The conference brings together 700+ business professionals interested in educating themselves in Social Media and Web 2.0 technologies to help grow their brand, drive sales, and interface with customers more effectively.
PeopleLinx, the company founded by LinkedIn employees to help companies use LinkedIn, will be hosting the LinkedIn Academy Session entitled: “LinkedIn is Business Software”. The pre-conference session will be dedicated to teaching the audience members how to use LinkedIn as a rich, dynamic business tool to help both corporations and individuals meet their strategic business objectives for:
Marketing
Sales
Business Intelligence
Recruiting
Research
Compliance
The session will be hosted by PeopleLinx founders Nathan...
Posted on Oct 7, 2011 | 1 comment
Freesource is now officially PeopleLinx!
The new name is just one component of the evolution of our business:
New Name! PeopleLinx™ more accurately reflects what we do. We help businesses and their employees more intelligently and effectively connect with others.
New Tagline! We make social business work.™
To date, much attention has been paid to solutions that allow businesses to utilize social media to connect with consumers, while there have been fewer efforts to provide social media tools for critical B2B needs. PeopleLinx delivers solutions for many of these B2B needs. Specifically, we:
Manage and enhance executive and employee brand
Accelerate lead generation and sales efforts
Reduce cost and improve recruitment efforts
New Website! PeopleLinx.com.
Please take a tour. Keep in mind, this is a soft launch. Further...
Posted on Aug 16, 2011 | 0 comments
8/16/2011
Official today, Freesource is proud to announce they will be leading the “LinkedIn Academy” session at the Philadelphia Convention Center on November 15th for SocialMediaPlus, the Mid-Atlantic region’s largest business summit for Social Media and Web 2.0 technology.
Former LinkedIn employees, Nathan Egan and Patrick Baynes, will be hosting the interactive session, which will be laser-focused on how to harness LinkedIn as a rich and dynamic business tool to help both corporations and individuals meet their strategic business objectives.
The duo will present and demo many of the inside tricks and methodologies they normally only share with their corporate clients, a list which includes: Starwood Capital Group, AARP, Experian, Forbes, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, The Direct Marketing Association, SmartBrief, and many...
Posted on Aug 11, 2011 | 0 comments
Pictured above: Freesource Intern Trina Kadakia AKA “T-Dawg”
Each summer Freesource opens its’ doors to a few ambitious interns. And each summer, we watch those interns learn, grow and become part of our company and our history.
We’ve been so incredibly fortunate to have such talented interns on staff, that we wanted to take a moment and share with you how proud we are.
So, here’s a quick “Freesource Interns, Where are they now?”
Pari Patel AKA “Pari the Dream”
Following her internship with Freesource, Pari finished out her senior year at Villanova University and started a graduate internship at SAP, which quickly turned into a full-time position as a Consultant with SAP.
Katelyn Davis AKA “Kate” or “Kate, how quickly can you turn this around?”
Kate recently graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts and minor...
Posted on Jul 7, 2011 | 0 comments
7/7/2011 Freesource proudly welcomes Ascend to its rapidly expanding client base. Founded in 2005, Ascend is the premier national, non-profit professional organization dedicated to enabling its members in leveraging the leadership and global business potential of Pan-Asians.
Adding to the breadth and diversity of Freesource’s industry presence and experience, Ascend’s 5,000 members come from industry-leaders such as KPMG, Bank of America, MetLife, Microsoft, Walmart, and Boeing Corp, representing a wide range of sectors ranging from banking, accounting, and finance to consumer goods, transportation, and technology.
The Freesource Team is thrilled to utilize its B2B social media systems to help Ascend harness the power of social media. Key focus areas for our social media program with Ascend will be to enhance the marketability of...
Posted on Jun 23, 2011 | 0 comments
On June 17th 2011 Freesource, the global leader in B2B information services, presented “LinkedIn for Lawyers” to a sold-out crowd over 250 lawyers at the prestigious New York City Bar Association.
The two-hour, interactive session, which is part of the NYC Bar’s on-going professional development series, was led by Freesource’s CEO and Chairman Nathan Egan. Egan, who is one of three former LinkedIn executives who left LinkedIn to found the company, rarely makes public appearances so the session was a special opportunity for those who were able to attend.
Focused on empowering lawyers to harness the power of LinkedIn to help them meet their strategic business objectives, Egan began by discussing the macro-effects of social media on the business environment for lawyers. He also strongly emphasized that LinkedIn be viewed as...
Posted on Jun 7, 2011 | 0 comments
A common point of controversy and concern for LinkedIn users: To show, or not to show.
We are talking about when you view LinkedIn profiles. And with the “give-to-get” settings LinkedIn recently put in place, they aren’t helping us decide either… so what to do? Here are some things to think about…
When you DO show people you’ve viewed LinkedIn profiles:
You will be able to view who’s checked you out (some people call this “stalking” – we like to call it “research”). And technically you will only be able to see what the viewer allows you to see per their privacy settings.
Most of the time you can expect them to respond to your view by looking at yours. Is your profile ready for that?
You’ll probably forget you have the setting turned on. Do you snoop around a lot on LinkedIn?
When you DO NOT show you’ve...
Posted on May 31, 2011 | 0 comments
And just about everything happens on the web these days… you could even make the argument that if it didn’t happen online, it didn’t happen at all.
I remember in 6th grade when we made a time capsule. It was a big deal and the idea of giving future generations a glimpse into what our lives were like in 1986 was going to be “so cool”.
Is this even necessary any more? Has the world-wide-web become the ultimate time capsule? Just about everything we do these days is stored, archived, indexed, mirrored, and in multiple secure data-bases across the globe… every communication, purchase, view, cookie, “like”, picture, video, blog post.
So much of our lives is on-line now, it’s scary – if you don’t think wiki-leaks has implications for your personal live – think again!
I don’t even think we realize what an impact all...
