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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Truckee Alum at President Obama's Town Hall with LinkedIn: "We are in this thing Together" | The White House

Earlier in the year we witnessed the President of the United States holding a Town Hall meeting live on the Internet from the headquarters of Facebook. Now, fitting to his speech topic about jobs, this past Monday the President once again held a Town Hall meeting live on the Internet from the headquarters of LinkedIn, the premier social media service for career professionals and employers.

These type of live-online meetings incorporating streaming video and social media interaction are a powerful and growing trend. If you missed the meeting, follow the link below to see what you missed. I would also be interested to hear from those of you who participated in this LinkedIn Town Hall meeting and what you thought. Do you like the format? It sure seems like a great way to include more participation by more people. However, only time will tell how much impact it will make on the political process. Hopefully the citizens voices will not only be allowed but listened to. Please comment below and share your thoughts.

President Obama's Town Hall with LinkedIn: "We are in this thing Together" | The White House:

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NOTE: On a side-note...very exciting to see one of my former computer students and basketball players here at Truckee High School sitting in the crowd underneath the letter "i" on the LinkedIn Banner. He is an employee for LinkedIn and LOVING his job! Way to go Josh Furr!

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the shout out Mr Halvorsen! This was an awesome experience and quite surreal to see our President less than 5 feet away.

    Working at LinkedIn has been an amazing experience and the company is growing at an unbelievable pace (15-30 new hires a week). I wish I had this tool growing up as the effectiveness of Monster, CareerBuilder, Craigslist have little to no comparison.

    I recommend all students take a look at this site: http://learn.linkedin.com/students

    We had over 80+ interns this year and plan to have over 200 next summer (over half were converted and offered jobs in areas from Sales to IT to Engineering). If anything, you learn the power of networking and gain the experience within a Corporate environment.

    Remember, every person you know/meet is a potential connection who can help you out in the future :)

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