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PREFERRED VENDORS
LinkedIn
– Launched in 2003, LinkedIn is a business-
oriented, social networking service with more than
400 million registered users in more than 200 coun-
tries and territories, worldwide. The company is head-
quartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in
30 cities and 7,600 full-time employees. It traded its
first shares on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011.
The LinkedIn site is available in 24 languages. Its users
connect with one another in a variety of ways: people
can find jobs, employers can search for candidates, in-
troductions amongst members can be made, people
can endorse one another’s skills, etc.
LinkedIn also supports the formation of interest groups;
there are about one and a quarter million such groups,
most of which are employment-related, although a very
wide range of topics are covered mainly around profes-
sional and career issues. There are currently 128,000
groups for both academic and corporate alumni.
LinkedIn continues to add different services to its plat-
form in order to expand the ways people can use it. For
example, the LinkedIn Influencers program, launched
in October 2012, brings together 300+ of the world’s
top thought leaders to share their professional insights
with LinkedIn’s 259 million members. -
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The Print House, Inc.
- Provider of high-quality, graphic
communications and services to businesses, including
design, print, direct mail fulfillment, and promotional
marketing materials. The company has three Massa-
chusetts locations: a production facility in Malden; a
copy center in the Longwood Medical area of Boston;
and a graphic design center onsite at Brigham and
Women’s Hospital.
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