Tavia Grant
Globe and Mail UpdatePublished on Sunday, Mar. 28, 2010 6:11PM EDTLast updated on Monday, Mar. 29, 2010 3:12AM EDT
Canadians have long been known as one of the world's busiest users ofsocial 
Networking site LinkedIn Corp. will announce this week it now has more than two million Canadian members on its site – almost double what it was just one year ago, making it one of its fastest-growing markets among the 200 countries it has members.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which is geared to connecting professionals online, also plans to open an office and hire staff in Canada to meet that burgeoning demand.
An educated work force and robust economy are two factors luring the company. But so is Canada's high rates of social media usage.
“We look at a range of factors when we go into a country – including our penetration, how many professionals there are and also the overall economic opportunity. And in all of those measures, Canada scored really high,” Arvind Rajan, LinkedIn's vice-president of international operations, said in a telephone interview.
“To be honest, when we looked [at] C
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