It goes without saying that has become a helpful tool for business over the years. When it first launched it seemed simply like a place to put your online resume but has become a platform in its own right, and one of the regular social media streams that entrepreneurs and business folks in general scroll multiple times a day to find outside stories as well as inspiration from within its walls. Our sales and marketing lead, Jeff Leyland (), uses it religiously and opened my eyes to the power of it and what it can do to not only help us learn more about business, but to share our own knowledge and our ideas and opinions around it.
My eyes opened a little wider this morning when Vancouver's own Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes was included in a list of the Top 10 Voices on Linkedin, alongside some other folks you may have heard of - Bill Gates and Richard Branson to name a couple. I can only assume that the list is based on some algorithm compiling the people who got the most amount of reads and shares on their articles on Linkedin, but speaking as a human being who regularly reads them this appointment is well deserved. He regularly publishes features that include insight that could only be attained by running one of Canada's top new companies.
See the full list of influencers and their profiles , and be sure to start following Ryan's stories on the platform .
And full disclosure, Ryan has become an ally since I featured him as of 500 back in 2012. I write this as a friend and a fan!
