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Bill Crane, the vice president of engineering at LinkedIn, says local members of the social networking site may haveorange-prize Orange County as a geographic designation for members’ profiles within two weeks.

http://jan.freedomblogging.com/2009/09/16/linkedin-working-on-oc-geographic-designation/22015/

… LinkedIn, the business-oriented social networking site, groups Orange County not just with Los Angeles but Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties, under the umbrella of “Greater Los Angeles.”

A group of Orange County business people recently hollered, “Enough!” … 2,500 have joined the We Are Orange County group on LinkedIn to persuade LinkedIn to use Orange County as a member geographic designation.

Read more in this OC Register Article.

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Just added my $0.02 worth to this discussion over in the IASA group on LinkedIn.

http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gid=1523&discussionID=1962973&sik=&trk=mywl_artile&goback=.mwg_*2_1