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LinkedIn and other social networking activities

Charlie Bess| March 11, 2006
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It seems like there are quite a few people I know who use LinkedIn to communicate across their network, since I still get requests relatively regularly, where most of the other social networking tools have died out. They seem to still be adding capabilities to their product, so they must be doing OK.

I mentioned in an entry the other day that social analysis will be one of the IT approaches to addressing the knowledge transfer issues of the retiring workforce and succession planning ... and more active tools like LinkedIn or social extensions to semantic Web activities would be a good set of tools. Who enters and who consumes content are a very useful part of the context of the information. Some of the early tools that I have experimented with in the past have all gone belly up as well.

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Anonymous(anon) | ‎03-12-2006 12:09 PM
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I am ambivalent. Like you my traffic of LinkedIn invites has gone up quite a bit recently so their network must be expanding. But I do not much care for the additional sign in, other steps. My blog has my email. People who need to reach me know how to reach me. In a world of blogs and social networking and viral marketing, somehow it feels centralized and command and control to me...or may be I just should shut up and use it as my address book?

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Anonymous(anon) | ‎03-19-2006 07:25 PM
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A number of these things have created alot of value.  www.LinkedIn,com created profiles of millions of people who would never post a resume, www.spoke.com has created data about 30M leads, and www.Tribe.net has managed to get 60K avid users to create more content that any of the largest newspaper groups do.

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