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via SlideShare and LinkedIn sitting in a tree… | SlideShare Blog.
With the increased hype and focus on social media and social networking, many people are struggling with trying to keep their public/private lives, or their professional/personal lives separate. And for those people, I have some bad news – there can be only one You in social media!
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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.