Stories by Kristin Burnham

After more than six months since announcing the Questions platform and releasing it to a small group of users, Facebook has finally rolled it out -- with some changes -- to everyone.

Yet another reason to take extra precautions while browsing Facebook arose today as reports surfaced that traffic destined for Facebook from AT&T's servers took a misguided loop through China and South Korea this week.

LinkedIn has launched a beta product called "LinkedIn Today" -- a social news service that aggregates the top headlines and stories related to your industry and based on what your connections share.

Three factors have added up to a huge shift in the CIO role during the past five years-and CIOs who ignore these put their careers in peril, says a new report by Constellation Research.

Untapped data. Inability to scale. Dismal adoption. Overspending. Gaping security holes. These are some of the most common challenges—and often sources of failure—that enterprises encounter following a social solution deployment, according to a new report by Forrester Research.

LinkedIn is rolling out an entirely redesigned privacy and security settings page aimed at helping users find important information quicker and navigate controls easier.

In 2009, Den-Mat, dental equipment manufacturing company based in California, ran on severely outdated IT. Employees relied on a 30 year-old legacy AS400 ERP green screen system with antiquated applications. Communication between departments was nearly nonexistent and processes were paper-heavy, says Jonathan Green, VP of IT. On top of that, the business faced a 48 per cent turnover rate for new employees, which was directly related to its old platform.

With more than 80 million users worldwide, LinkedIn has established itself as the premier social networking site for professionals. If you're job searching, looking to broaden your network or hunting for new partnerships, these 10 tips and tricks will propel you toward success.

If you're one of Gmail's 193 million users worldwide, you probably rely on the service -- and its add-ons -- every day. Popular among users for its customization features, Google constantly adds to its arsenal of Labs and brings new features mainstream to simplify processes and save users time.

You've written your LinkedIn summary and updated your experience field. You've joined a handful of groups and connected with colleagues. A few of them wrote you recommendations, but your activity on LinkedIn has been stagnant since.

Back in November 2010, Facebook announced plans for a "social inbox" -- a space that would serve as a hub for all communications that people use online or via mobile phones, ranging from text messages and chat messages to e-mail messages, too.

LinkedIn Polls, a feature on the site that lets you pose or vote on a question and analyze results, received some major updates. Polls, according to Jimmy Chen, associate product manager at LinkedIn, have been used by more than one million professionals since its launch two years ago.

If your LinkedIn profile includes any of the terms "dynamic, motivated, results-oriented or innovative problem solver with a proven track record," it's probably time for a profile makeover. Yesterday, LinkedIn released its top 10 overused buzzwords in U.S. member-profiles --descriptors, LinkedIn says, that are ambiguous and really don't say anything.

Almost two months after its last product announcement, Facebook yesterday released its latest redesign, this time focusing on profile pages.

How to chat off the record.