Viveka von Rosen, Speaker / Author

Viveka von Rosen started using LinkedIn in 2006 when she saw a presentation on the opportunities of Business Networking with LinkedIn.  Having doubled her own business with F2F networking, she saw the immense potential of a business online networking site.

Viveka is known internationally, speaking in Norway, Brussels, Nicaragua, and all over the US. Referred to as the “LinkedIn Expert,” she speaks to business owners, corporations, Legal Firms and associations on the benefits of marketing with social media, and in particular LinkedIn.

Author of LinkedIn Marketing:  An Hour A Day (2012, John Wiley & Sons,) she is also a regular source on LinkedIn for their official newsletter aimed at LinkedIn Premium members.  Viveka likes to write for, and is quoted by prestigious news outlets such as CNN.com, Ragan.com, MarketingProfs.com, Mashable.com, TheSocialMediaExaminer.com, SocialMediaToday and The Miami Herald. In addition, she has also contributed chapters to:

• PR News’ PR Measurments Guidebook, Volume 6
• Wiley’s Small Business Marketing for Dummies
• Amazon Best Seller Solving the Social Media Puzzle
• Tech Editor for Penguin’s Complete Idiot’s Guide to LinkedIn

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 LinkedIn strategy group on LinkedIn. She is constantly learning, sharing and transferring social media skills and strategies to her tribe.

Viveka has 25,000+ first level connections and a network of over 25 million people on LinkedIn and 45,000+ followers on Twitter.  Her seminars, webinars and workshops have taught and trained well over 10,000 people.

She was also recently listed:

• 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
• Evan Carmichael’s 2012 Top 100 Leadership Experts to Follow on Twitter
• Big Money Web’s 200 Most Fearless Women Online
• Listed by Mari Smith as having the niche quality of a social media superstar