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BI Programmer Analyst

Ben Johnson — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:06:11 +0000

CommScope Joliet, ILJob description: …pulls. Attend code reviews to assure compliance. Assists in the coaching and training of customers in the use of business intelligence tools to enhance business decision-making capabilityResponsibilities: Tra...

Should You Join the Class Action Overtime Lawsuit Against Your Accounting Firm?

Caleb Newquist — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:29:00 +0000

Wage and hour lawsuits against Big 4 firms have been part of our coverage since the launch of Going Concern. Campbell v. PricewaterhouseCoopers has been big news in California and was the first case we covered. Lately, Pippins v. KPMG has been getting...

IT Leaders: Factors to Consider When Evaluating a Video Surveillance Solution

Knowledge Hub Networks — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:53:11 +0000

Video surveillance solutions, even if they appear to have equivalent security features, can have very different profiles in terms of impact on IT. To ensure the long-term success and cost-effectiveness... Read more »

Accountant Can’t Bear the Thought of Serving Clients on the 100th Anniversary of the Titantic Sinking

Caleb Newquist — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:12:00 +0000

As CPAs and capital market servants, you are all acutely aware that that serving clients to the best of your ability is priority numero uno. Forget your family and friends. Forget your pets. Forget your beloveds. Clients complete you in ways that t...

Consolidation, Scale-Out Architectures And Virtualization Drive 2012 Storage Trends

Chris Talbot — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Enterprise storage infrastructure still contains quite a bit of direct-attached storage (DAS), but SMEs are in the process of making the move to consolidated storage, a shift that has already taken place at the Fortune 500 level. Even as storage consol...

LinkedIn Launches Company Follow Button (How to Add It Now)

Pamela Vaughan — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:08:00 +0000

Looking to generate more followers for your awesomely optimized LinkedIn Company Page? (It is awesomely optimized, right?) This morning, LinkedIn made it just a little bit easier to generate company followers with the launch of its new follow button. Like Twitter's follow button and Facebook's like button, LinkedIn's version makes it simple for your website visitors to follow your company's LinkedIn page with just one click. No navigating to the LinkedIn website required!

And yes, you should want some more followers. In a recent study of over 5,000 businesses, HubSpot found that traffic from LinkedIn generated the highest visitor-to-lead conversion rate at 2.74%, almost 3 times higher (277%) than both Twitter (.69%) and Facebook (.77%). In other words, increasing your reach on LinkedIn will likely increase your website's LinkedIn referral traffic, and because of the powerful conversion rate of LinkedIn traffic, you'll likely see an increase in leads, too!

Convinced you should spend some time building the reach of your LinkedIn Company Page? Here's how to add the new follow button to your website. It's easy!

How to Install the LinkedIn Follow Button

1) Visit https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins/follow-company

2) Enter your company name or ID. (Or select your company as you begin typing and the dropdown menu appears.)

3) Choose your button's count mode preference -- whether or not you'd like the button to display your LinkedIn Company Page's follower count.

4) Click "Get Code," and voila! Copy and paste this code onto your website and blog where you'd like the button to appear (your About Us page, your blog's sidebar, and your homepage are great places to start). Now you'll start easily converting website visitors into new LinkedIn Company Page followers.

But ... Do More Than Just Add the Button

When your website visitors click the LinkedIn follow button on your website, they'll automatically follow your company if they're already logged in to LinkedIn (or they'll get prompted to log in first if they're not). As a result, these visitors will start receiving the status updates you publish to your LinkedIn Company Page in their LinkedIn homepage's updates feed.

But the value of adding the LinkedIn follow button is dependent on how effectively you use your LinkedIn Company Page to begin with. If you rarely or never post status updates to your company page, the value of the new followers you generate from the LinkedIn follow button is moot.

So if you don't have company status updates installed on your company page, learn how to do so here. And start using them regularly! While you're at it, start improving your company page so new followers have a reason to follow you to begin with. Here are a few blog posts that will help:

And, what are you waiting for? Go add the LinkedIn follow button now! And start following HubSpot's LinkedIn Company Page while you're at it ;-)

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Systems Pre-Sales Network Engineer – Presales, CDMA, Verizon

Ben Johnson — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:05:53 +0000

CyberCoders Indianapolis, INJob description: …s solutions play an essential role, providing the operational intelligence required to assure that critical networked applications and services…the account team-Identify compelling events or spe...

ScaleXtreme Automates Cloud-Based Patch Management For Virtual, Physical Servers

Esther Shein — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000

ScaleXtreme, a provider of server automation products, has launched a cloud-based patch management automation product for use in public cloud, virtual and physical servers. The tool does automatic scanning and remediation for patch management, says Nan...

Treasury Department and IRS Release Initial Lifetime Income Guidance; Additional Guidance Expected Shortly

McDermott Will & Emery — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:48:30 +0000

by Joseph S. Adams, Stephen Pavlick and David Diaz Two years after the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) jointly issued a high-profile Request for Information regarding how defined contribution plans can better provide l...

Missing: One South Carolina Lobbyist and Up to $900,000

Adrienne Gonzalez — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:41:00 +0000

On February 18, South Carolina Hospitality Association CEO Tom Sponseller was seen around noon at the association's offices in Columbia near the State House but has not been seen since. When Sponseller failed to show up to his grandson's Boy Scouts eve...