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Summary: LinkedIn is a networking tool that helps you discover inside connections


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linkedin - Google Image Search

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linkedin - Google Image Search

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linkedin - Google Image Search

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LinkedIn is an Internet social network service, used mostly for business connections. It has more than 4 million registered users, including 1.3 million in Europe and 6.4 million in Asia. (Counts need to be verified since they do not add up correctly)

LinkedIn's CEO is Reid Hoffman, the former EVP of PayPal.

LinkedIn is the largest online business network with more than 4 million registered users. It is used to find jobs, people and business opportunities recommended by ones existing professional contacts or the people they know.

Employers can list jobs on LinkedIn, which is how LinkedIn makes money. Job seekers can find not only jobs, but also review the profile of the hiring manager, HR professional or recruiter posting the job and then discover which of their existing contacts can introduce them.

Link: LinkedIn (beta) review by PC Magazine

Link: social software: could xml make it irrelevant

 
Social software, like ryze, linkdin , friendster and the like, have proliferated because they are based on a fundamentally good idea, linking people; and they leverage what the internet is good at, linking things.

Major Publishers Step into Social Networking

 
 
Social networking is catching the attention of the investment community with Friendster having raised $13 million and LinkdIn having raised $4.7 million. Knight Ridder and The Washington Post hope to mirror the success of Craig's List and capitalize on the power of community to grow their classified advertising business.

"An important part of real networking is vouching for somebody who is introduced," explains Heath. "By automatizing that process, you make it less effective." While the sites may speed up connections, the ease of adding "friends" to your online circle makes the quality of those links dubious. The genre is also rife with exploitation and fraud. Some Friendster members claim tens of thousands of "friends"; others devise fake profiles like "Pure Evil." Invitations to join Orkut are already being auctioned on eBay. "All this suggests it's a game people are playing," says Columbia University sociologist Duncan Watts, author of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age.

From: http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_hellomynameisscott_archive.html

HELLO, my name is BLOG: August 2005

HELLO, my name is BLOG: August 2005

From: http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_hellomynameisscott_archive.html

Does online social networking actually work?


From: http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_hellomynameisscott_archive.html

"Flickr, for example, has turned photos into objects of sociality. On del.icio.us the objects are the URLs."

He goes on to give a convincing explanation of why the object is essential in maintaining a successful network, pointing out that the business networking site LinkdIn has moved from the map approach (which encourages people just to link to each other en masse but for no specific purpose) to the object approach by focusing on the members' jobs as the object of interest.


From: http://www.broadbandstars.co.uk/2005/04/why_social_netw.html

  • Make a trusted contact.

    Once you find the ideal person to contact, you turn to those trusted connections.

    The person you found is linked to you through one of your trusted friends or colleagues, through a short chain of referrals. Everyone is only a few “degrees” away.

    Write up the details of your need or opportunity. Then ask one of your friends to pass that request along. He or she passes it to a trusted friend, then on to the person you need to meet. When it gets there, the person you are trying to reach knows about you and the quality of the people you know.


    • From: https://www.linkedin.com/static?key=guest_tour

  • Find the people you need.

    With just a few clicks, you can search the network you have built.

    Find professionals to hire, who can give you a job, who can put you in contact with a company, who can provide expertise — whatever you need.


    • From: https://www.linkedin.com/static?key=guest_tour

  • Build your network.

    At LinkedIn, you make contact through the people you know and trust. So you start out by inviting your trusted friends and colleagues.

    Each friend or colleague invites their trusted connections, and they invite theirs, and your network grows.


    • From: https://www.linkedin.com/static?key=guest_tour

    Link: LinkedIn Business Network




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