Expanding on yesterday's blog on the diminishing ROI for business users of Facebook, Harvard Business Online blogger John Sviokla checks in with a positive look at its main competitor for business users, LinkedIn. His take: LinkedIn delivers tremendous reach to business professionals for a relatively small investment....
LinkedIn: The Business Antidote to Facebook?Linked In - A NecessityThere is no doubt that Linked In has reached critical mass in the tech business community. It is the first place I look for contact information on an individual. I use it to review an individual’s backup before, and after, meetings...
Indispensable Outlook plug-in Xobni just released version 1.4, adding integration with social-networking service LinkedIn. Users will now see a contact's LinkedIn profile data (job title, company, and photo), assuming he/she has any, in their Xobni sidebar. Clicking the accompanying LinkedIn logo takes you to that contact's page on the service. Also...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- LinkedIn Corporation, the world's largest online professional network, today announced the launch of a special question and answer series on LinkedIn's Answers service, which was introduced earlier this year. The series will focus on start ups and small business, and will highlight the professional expertise available...
The way you can join LinkedIn is to be invited by an existing user to register. Registered users maintain lists of contacts of people they know and trust in business these are called connections. Your lists are then used to provide a network of contacts which can be used in...
A friend sent me a text the other night -- from a humongous holiday party held for a well-known biotech firm -- with this thought: the hallmark of mall culture is the decreased possibility of a unique experience. This feeling had come over him while walking...
Useful Commute: Use LinkedIn to Advance Your CareerGood info - but I am still confusedSome really great info on LinkedIn in this session, but I am still confused on how to maximize exposure to NEW contacts. Mario makes a point that it is critical to make sure you connect...
It's not what you know, but who you know that counts -- and LinkedIn is capitalizing on that adage. We talk to Mario Sundar, LinkedIn's community evangelist, about how to get the most out of the professional networking site. Learn how to use LinkedIn to find a new job, expand...
When Social Network Invites Are Merely Socially AwkwardUmmm...but I like Linked-InI had the same feeling about Linked-In when I first saw it, and made the same assumptions. Then, after about the 5th invite, I decided to accept and take the plunge.I have to say, it's very useful. People...
I used to think that LinkedIn requests were obnoxious. I felt like I was being roped into a social network that, unlike Friendster, has been scrubbed free of interestingness and instead has a glossy PR sheen. But as a business professional, it's become unavoidable; not having a LinkedIn profile is...
While 2006 may have seen the mainstreaming of social networking sites like MySpace, 2007 is shaping up to be the year in which professional social networking hits its stride, notes Steve Williams in his recent article, "Linkedin and the Like" on CUES Tech Port(www.cues techport.com).
The Online Marketing Summit OMS today announced the addition of world-class speakers from Home Depot, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Cisco.com for the upcoming event in San Diego, California on February 21-23, 2008.
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