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Addressing sustainability topics such as emissions and renewable energy on LinkedIn can help businesses boost engagement with audiences and influence purchase decisions. That's according to an infographic (below) from the professional social network. The infographic covers the benefits of joining the sustainability conversation and what people expect from businesses. It also looks at the sustainability-related themes that receive the most engagement on LinkedIn. Check out the infographic:   Continue reading "The Benefits of Talking About Sustainability on LinkedIn " ... Read the full article Subscribe today...it's free!MarketingProfs provides thousands of marketing resources, entirely free!Simply subscribe to our newsletter and get instant access to how-to articles, guides, webinars and more for nada, nothing, zip, zilch, on the house...delivered right to your inbox! MarketingProfs is the largest marketing community in the world, and we are here to help you be a better marketer. Sign in with your preferred account, below. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ayaz Nanji is a digital strategist and a co-founder of ICW Media, a marketing agency specializing in content and social media services for tech firms. He is also a research writer for MarketingProfs. He has worked for Google/YouTube, the Travel Channel, AOL, and the New York Times. LinkedIn: Ayaz…

Ryan Hicks Head of Bioscience Cell Therapy, BioPharmaceuticals R&D Peter Currie Director of Research, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI), Monash University, Australia. Degenerative chronic diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic kidney disease (CKD), are associated with tissue damage in the respective organs. This trauma triggers a complex response that aims to drive the repair and regeneration of the organ. As the diseases progress, cellular mechanisms become dysregulated, and there is an onset of fibrosis or scarring, impairing normal tissue function and ultimately leading to organ failure and eventually death. Macrophages are a type of white blood cell of the immune system that engulfs dead material in the body, helps fight infections, and stimulates the action of other immune cells. Recently, researchers have also found that macrophages can break down scar tissue and stimulate regeneration in the tissue. The potential of harnessing the body’s immune system to kickstart and accelerate tissue healing could be game-changing for regenerative medicine. Different tissues show distinct regenerative capacities, but the cellular and molecular mechanisms are far from clear. In a recent Nature publication, findings from the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) lab start to identify the source and nature of macrophages…

Speak to any human intelligence officer about the human asset recruitment cycle and they will address how they spot, assess, and develop their targets of interest. They will also include the importance of knowing as much about your target as possible, thus giving credence to the adage, “knowledge is power.” It is in this light, that we dig into the court transcript of the case of convicted Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) officer, Yanjun Xu, and how LinkedIn was leveraged by the Xu and the MSS. Yanjun Xu is a convicted MSS intelligence officer, who is awaiting sentencing. At his trial, former chief of CIA’s counterintelligence, James Olson, provided expert commentary on the mechanics of the MSS in their effort to recruit individuals to provide confidential information to the Chinese government. LinkedIn – China’s candy store Olson was asked, “Is LinkedIn used in the spotting process for the MSS?” His one word response speaks volumes. He said, “Massively.” Olson was asked to expand his response. His response should be required reading for every FSO and CI officer who is providing cleared personnel with briefings on the need to be circumspect, obtuse, and downright pithy in social network engagements. Olson…

LinkedIn users in Kenya will now pay additional membership fees to access special features or services on the career-focused and jobs advertising social media platform. Business Insider Africa gathered that the company hiked its membership rates, with effect from May 11th, following the implementation of a 16% value added tax (VAT) on digital transactions in the East African country. Part of a communique by LinkedIn to this effect said: “We want to provide you with an important tax update related to Kenya tax that will impact your LinkedIn purchase(s). Kenya has introduced tax at 16 percent on e-Services. In order to comply with these laws and regulations, this tax will be added to your current LinkedIn purchase starting on May 11, 2022”. The communique further noted that users who provide their valid PIN IDs will not be subject to the tax. That's because "if a valid Kenya tax number has been provided, this will be accepted by LinkedIn as notification of your responsibility to account for VAT under the reverse charge mechanism.” This clearly shows that LinkedIn is pushing the costs of the VAT to its Kenyan users instead of incurring them. Do note that LinkedIn is not the only…

LinkedIn is known for its business-focused, network-driven platform that allows employers and employees to connect with other professionals. However, with top posts ranging from videos of dads playing with their kids to managers sharing crying pictures and discussing their mental health struggles, it’s clear that LinkedIn has become more personal than strictly professional.Why it matters: According to Kinsta, 87% of recruiters regularly use LinkedIn and roughly six people are hired every minute using the platform, per LinkedIn statistics. With more than 55 million companies listed on the site that could potentially view your page, it’s important to know what kind of content will benefit you and your career the most. What they’re saying: LinkedIn article author John Nemo wrote on his experience posting personal details of his life on his LinkedIn account, encouraging people to humanize their posts and not be afraid to share life stories. “Nobody wants to do business with a stranger. Instead, we always want to do business with people we know, like and trust,” wrote Nemo.LinkedIn user Natalie Rose shared a post in February showing herself crying from anxiety. The post received over 10,000 likes and multiple comments of support.Miranda Head, LinkedIn Creator Manager, replied to her…

-- overlooked-- under-appreciated-- underestimatedThe millennials and boomers seem to get all the admiration, love, hate, and glory.While Gen X'ers are over in the corner,politely raising their hand,thinking quietly to themselves,'we lived through':-- cars without child restraints or seatbelts-- lead paint-- latch key days-- riding bikes without helmets-- minimal adult supervision-- the fall of the Berlin Wall-- the Challenger disaster-- Columbine-- the Oklahoma City bombing-- 2008's mortgage fiasco-- getting duped into accepting a debt heavy lifestyle-- after school specials that convinced us all we would be kidnapped or spontaneously knocked up — any dayWe've been through some stuff.But never underestimate the generation who survived the life and death of MTV.We are the secret warriors and overachievers."

Austin-based developer Certain Affinity has always had a close relationship with Microsoft, dating back to its work on multiple Halo games from the second installment all the way to the upcoming Halo Infinite mode (rumored to be inspired by the Battle Royale genre). Another recent rumor mentioned a brand new IP, though, reportedly inspired by CAPCOM's Monster Hunter and codenamed Project Suerte. The information shared at the time by Windows Central's Jeff Corden pointed to the project's development beginning in Summer 2020, but Twitter user J Singh uncovered a LinkedIn Resume of a former Certain Affinity Advanced Senior Technical Animator that points to a much earlier start. It would seem like the unannounced project being done in partnership with Microsoft Games was already in development back in April 2019. This basically confirms that Certain affinity is working with Microsoft for a unannounced game pic.twitter.com/67RWnfnSzB — J Singh (@JSingh10j) May 15, 2022 Of course, it could have been in development even earlier than that for all we know. If that's the case, there's a chance Certain Affinity might reveal the game at the upcoming Xbox & Bethesda 2022 Games Showcase scheduled to air on Sunday, June 12th. It could even be…

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman Greylock Partners Inflection AI, the new artificial intelligence start-up from DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, has secured $225 million in funding, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week. The funding, first reported by TechCrunch, has been raised at an undisclosed valuation and it’s not clear who the investors are at this stage. It’s likely that a large chunk of the funding will be used to hire AI experts that can command high salaries. Inflection did not immediately respond to a CNBC request for comment. The company, founded earlier this year, wants to develop AI software products that make it easier for humans to communicate with computers. “If you think about the history of computing, we have always been trying to reduce the complexity of our ideas in order to communicate them to a machine,” Suleyman told CNBC at the time of the launch in March. “Even when we write a search query, we’re simplifying, we’re reducing or we’re writing in shorthand so that the search engine can understand what we want.” When humans want to control a computer, they need to learn a programming language in…

Data: Pew Research; Chart: Jacque Schrag/AxiosAsian Americans hail from dozens of countries — and their experiences in America are starkly different depending on their origins.Why it matters: This vast, diverse group is often lumped together under the "model minority myth" — the stereotype that all Asian Americans are well-educated, wealthy and successful. If you look at averages, Asian Americans appear to be richer and better educated than the average American.If you disaggregate the data, the model minority myth crumbles. We see high levels of poverty and below-average levels of educational attainment.But because that data is seldom disaggregated, "Asian Americans have had to make the case over and over again that they suffer from racism and hostility and violence," says Ellen Wu, a history professor at Indiana University. The big picture: The U.S. Asian American population doubled from 2000 to 2019, hitting 22 million. Asians are the fastest-growing group in America — outpacing white, Black and Hispanic Americans and projected to pass 46 million by 2060."They all have very different starting points," says Neil Ruiz, associate director of race and ethnicity research at the Pew Research Center.Consider, for example, an Indian immigrant who comes to the U.S. via H-1B visa for…

This story is part of the Behind the Desk series, where CNBC Make It gets personal with successful business executives to find out everything from how they got to where they are to what makes them get out of bed in the morning to their daily routinesThere's a lot you might not know about Kevin O'Leary.Maybe you didn't know the star investor on ABC's "Shark Tank" grew up dyslexic. Or, maybe you didn't know he got his financial chops from his Lebanese mother, whom he says "kept a secret account from both of her husbands, her whole life."You might think he's mean, based largely on his television persona. O'Leary disputes that assertion. "People call me mean. I don't think I'm mean," O'Leary, 67, tells CNBC Make It.Instead, O'Leary says, he's simply following advice he received as a teenager from his late mother Georgette: Never tell a lie, and you'll never have to remember what you said. "In other words, I tell it the way I see it," he says.O'Leary credits that honesty, even when it hurts, to his success — dating back to his first entrepreneurial endeavor, a company called Softkey Software that he launched from his Toronto basement…