About the Author

Viveka von Rosen is known internationally as the “LinkedIn Expert” and speaks to business owners, corporations, legal firms, and associations on the benefits of marketing with social media, and in particular, LinkedIn.

Her website, LinkedIntoBusiness.com, was a LinkedIn resource blog before LinkedIn even had its own blog. She is also a regular source on LinkedIn for prestigious news outlets such as Mashable.com, TheSocialMediaExaminer.com, Bloomberg Law, and The Miami Herald. She is the host of the biggest LinkedIn chat on Twitter: #LinkedInChat (recently quoted by Mashable as one of the top 10 business blogs) and co-moderator of LinkedStrategies, the largest strategy group on LinkedIn.

Viveka has 26,000-plus first-level connections and a network of over 24 million people on LinkedIn, as well as 45,000-plus followers on Twitter. Her seminars, webinars, and workshops have taught and trained well over 10,000 people.

She was also recently listed as:

• Forbes 10 Most Influential Women in Social Media
• Forbes 50 Most Influential People in Social Media
• TopRank’s 25 Women Who Rock Social Media in 2011