Stats, stats, it’s all about stats at the moment.  This one is on the current state of play on LinkedIn for those who are needing B2B info.

LinkedIn is definitely a B2B platform – at its most basic used by professionals as an online CV.  There are still more males than females who are members, but now younger people seem to be joining (25 to 34 year olds being as big a proportion as the 35 to 55 year olds who have joined LinkedIn)

Unsurprisingly America has the largest chunk of the pie chart as far as membership but Australia has 2.3 million members (over double what it was a year ago) and is in the top 10 countries on LinkedIn.  Not bad considering the relatively small population in Australia – and not to be underestimated as to what LinkedIn can do for a business.

From a health perspective, 8.6% of industries on LinkedIn are medical – although what ‘medical’ encompasses is another matter (only 3.5% of jobs on Linkedin are medical)

Thanks to @RazChorev to alerting me to this on twitter

Smart move by LinkedIn

You can now visualize your LinkedIn network with InMaps.  Smart Move LinkedIn.

Here is what my LinkedIn network looks like – the larger the circle the larger that person’s network and influence. Now I’ve just got to figure out the labels.  This is still in the LinkedIn Labs – but great idea.

More here at Mashable LinkedIn inMaps

Australian LinkedIn Statistics

2010

LinkedIn is the largest networking site for professionals in Australia and New Zealand [1]. LinkedIn Australia’s managing director is Clifford Rosenberg, a former Yahoo! Australia-New Zealand managing director, who joined in November, located in Sydney.

• Worldwide LinkedIn has over 70 million members in over 200 countries [2]
• There are 970,000 professionals on LinkedIn as of January 2010 [3]
• Australian LinkedIn growth was in double digits over 2009 [1]
• Australia is one of LinkedIn’s top performing countries, particularly when viewed as a factor of professionals per capita [3]

More Web Metrics

References

[1] http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/12/03/linkedin-australia
[2] http://press.linkedin.com/about
[3] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/linkedin-pushes-local-growth-social-networking/story-e6frgakx-1225835816746