Archive for the 'Social Networking' Category

Getting to Know the Folks at LinkedIn

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Since I don’t live in Silicon Valley and don’t attend a lot of tech conferences, I haven’t previously had a chance to meet any of the people at LinkedIn in person. But I attended SXSW a couple of weeks ago and had the pleasure of meeting Steve Ganz (right), Principal Web Developer at LinkedIn, [...]

LinkedIn-Twitter Fascination

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Quote of the day, from Jay Solo on Twitter:
I find it fascinating to look at Joe Random LinkedIn of Twiitterites and find 8-way 3rd degree linkage through wildly disparate connections.
Are you on Twitter? I’d only just sort of tested the waters before, but after this weekend at SXSW, I’m hooked. At the moment it’s [...]

The Human Network Is a Mobile Network

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Earlier today I wrote about the LinkedIn Mobile announcement, but I have to confess that I’m not a big mobile app user myself. I use my cell phone for one thing and one thing only — voice conversation, and generally as little of that as possible.
So I asked my business partner and coauthor Jay [...]

Scott Allen Video Interview

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Seems my 25-minute interview at the Electronic Retailing Association annual conference last November has made its way to YouTube:

I cover a lot of ground — the state of social media and social networking, internet radio, working for b5media and About.com, and more. If we haven’t gotten to meet face-to-face and you ever wondered what I [...]

LinkedIn Connections 1-19-2008

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Educational Value of Social Media
Adam Metz presents the value proposition for social media for educators and some tips for how early adopters can “sell it” to their team. Interesting factoid regarding LinkedIn:
“Education management is one of the top five fastest growing segments on our network,” said LinkedIn’s director of corporate communications, Kay Luo. The [...]

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