The Great Northern Blog

There was an interesting case in the High Court this week (article link) where a former employee of Hays, a recruitment company, was ordered to ‘hand over’ his LinkedIn business contacts built up while employed by them.

This spotlights highlight the area of potential conflict between businesses encouraging employees to use public social networking websites for work [...]

How many people use LinkedIn? While big numbers can be impressive, most people are more interested in the breakdown of those numbers e.g. how many members in my industry, how many are in certain job roles etc?

This gives context to the ‘big number’ and helps people to decide how to gain most benefit from social media [...]