LinkedIn and The Future of Business Networking

from Bernard Lunn's
blog Read/WriteWeb

LinkedIn has definitely been useful for me. It is not a silver bullet, but when used with respect for real world relationships it has served one very important purpose - I can meet my objectives with the minimum of intrusion on my contacts. I can search for the contacts/companies that I want to reach and find who has a relationship and ping them for help.

This is far more efficient than spamming all my contacts with a mass email saying “anybody know anybody in this role at these companies?” That would probably get a quick response but would rapidly deplete my 'relationship capital'. It is also more effective than guessing who would have the right contacts. In LinkedIn I have been constantly surprised by contacts that I would never have guessed would be useful.

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How Can I Miss You If You Don't Go Away?

from SiliconValley.com
Good Morning Silicon Valley

Now it’s practically a given that your time online is social time. Between commercial and peer pressure, you’re expected to maintain both a public presence for general interaction and a semi-private sphere for friends and family, both updated in real time with your activities, opinions, latest interests, location, and cultural tastes. The vehicles for this presence were homepages at first, then blogs, and now the widget-laden profiles on the social networking sites, along with an endless flow of pinging, poking and tweeting. It’s sort of funny that a system built by notoriously socially awkward geeks has turned into a mammoth, never-ending cocktail party. But that’s where we are, and right now, billions are being bet on monetizing the world of constant acquaintanceship.
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Closed Social Networks

from Marshall Sponder's Web Metrics Guru blog...

BusinessWeek wrote an article about Social Networking with the Elite yesterday that focuses on Social Networks that are meant to be invite only like INMOBILE.ORG:

"...

INMOBILE.ORG

Launched in April, 2006, INmobile.org is a network of more than 900 executives who work in or close to the wireless industry. To qualify, you have to be at least a director at a large company, a vice-president at a mid-size company, or in the C-suite of a startup.

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Mzinga, New Social Network Debuts

Mzinga, a Boston-area start-up that is offering companies the tools to construct social networks, is launching today at the TechCrunch MeetUp on in Boston.

Erick Schonfeld has report up on the new company on TechCrunch. The start-up has already raised $17 million, Erick reports.

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Everything you need to know about Real Estate - free ebook

Are you involved in Real Estate? Dan Auito has a free ebook for you. The book, some 270 pages in length, is an incredible and informative work. Take a look and pass it along to someone you know.


Bio for Dan Auito of MagicBullets.com

• TNNW Article by Real Estate Editor Tracy Percival
  

• Dan Auito is a dual-licensed real estate agent and appraisal assistant.

• Dan is a 20-year veteran of the United States Coast Guard.

• He has acquired over 2 million in real estate assets in 17 years while also founding a non-profit drug prevention corporation, a real estate consulting group and writing “Magic Bullets in Real Estate.” A real estate handbook that can be found at amazon.com or ordered from bookstores.

• Dan also has a website at www.magicbullets.com with over 4000 real estate investors who gather regularly on-line to discuss current real estate events and opportunities.

• Dan lives with his wife Kimberly and their two children, Brandon and Briana, In West Central Florida

• Dan may be reached at by visiting www.magicbullets.com

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Irresistible Force Meets an Immovable Object

from Jay Deragon's blog
A Relationship Economy With Whom and What...


The subject matter of business uses of the social web and related technologies has been gaining ground throughout traditional as well as new media. As usual there are opposing viewpoints as the the potential impact of the medium on business processes, IT Infrastructures and traditional corporate models as well as sacred budgets for use of technology.

When we step back a little the landscape of opinion becomes clearer. What we’re observing, in all its noise, is the ancient paradox of what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object. The irresistible force in this case is the explosive growth of the social networking medium and the never ending introduction of technological innovation and human creativity in adaptation.


You can also catch Jay Deragon's What Say You on TNNW.
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Social network and graph ecology

from Library Clips

There is movement in the social graph space…bringing “social awareness” to your email (and perhaps IM, VOIP), it’s being labelled Inbox 2.0, see posts by TechCrunch and Collaborative Thinking.

Generate tag clouds of friends associated with keywords or friends you most correspond with, etc…doesn’t sound too different than email mining to match experts (see my post from a while back on Microsoft Knowledge Network).

Using your social graph are the kind of things you can do with your social network buddies using apps like Socialistics or the Fuser Leaderboard.
Well now this social awareness is going to be applied to other buddy lists like email contacts.
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Meet emerging mobile social networks

from WebWare
Field Report, News

By Jessica Dolcourt – November 15, 2007, 4:30 PM PST


New social networks are born each day, and at the Under the Radar conference (see all posts) a new batch is on display. Most are in early funding stages, and one is so new it's still in closed beta. The other three are ready for a try-out.
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Facebook v. Open Social

from Widgetbox...

Facebook_v_google Open Social is a set of social networking application APIs that Google is encouraging all social networks to adopt as their application architecture. Its goal is to standardize social networking apps so that they can be run on more than one social network. It's meant to challenge Facebook's tremendous success with their F8 application platform.
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Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks

from MobBlog
Mobile Systems Research, Computer Science Department, University College London


At IMC, it has been presented the first study to examine multiple online social networks at scale. The paper analyzes “data gathered from four popular online social networks: Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut”.

Findings

* “the indegree of user nodes tends to match the outdegree;
* the networks contain a densely connected core of high-degree nodes;
* this core links small groups of strongly clustered, low-degree nodes at the fringes of the network”.
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Bebo aligns itself with tv, film and music companies

Bebo announced today Open Media, a new “platform” that gives users the ability to add top-shelf video and music content to their profile pages and share it with others on the network. They become “fans” of a series the same way they can add people as “friends.”

At the same time, Bebo is allowing its diverse content partners like the BBC, CBS, Channel 4, ESPN, Ministry of Sound, MTV Networks, Turner, Ustream, and Yahoo! to use their video players to distribute their content and retain all of the advertising-related revenue.

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Social Network for Neighbors

Social Network for Neighbors Fatdoor Raises $5.5M, Hires New CEO
by Mark Hendrickson for TechCrunch

Fatdoor aims to connect you with your neighbors by providing a localized social network for your physical community. Although the site will be in private beta until the spring of 2008, a handful of details have been publicly available since at least June. The website will integrate with Microsoft Virtual Earth to display local business and residential listings on an interactive map. Once users claim their listings, they can add profiles and put down their interests. Users can then plan events and form local interest groups with the site.
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"WINNING THROUGH RELATIONSHIP CAPITAL" .pdf by DON TAPSCOTT

Don Tapscott ( CEO of New Paradigm ) explains relationship capital and outlines the new discipline of Relationship Capital. Management. He explains how to design the new ...
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Fad or Revolutionary Change?

from Jay Deragon's blog A Relationship Economy….. With Whom & What

An interesting article appeared in MarketWatch this morning titled: Will the real Steve Ballmer please stand up? Commentary: Why Facebook was worth the bet.

The articles starts out : “On October 1st, in an interview with the London Times, Microsoft’s CEO declared social networking was a fad — the kind that appealed to younger people. He added, “There can’t be any more deep technology in Facebook than what dozens of people could write in a couple of years, that’s for sure.

You can also see Jay on

TNNW's "What Say You?"

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Systemic Changes to the Web

from Jay Deragon's blog: A Relationship Economy With Whom and What...

The web has steadily become a utility of the masses. We’ve all became familiar with using the web for communicating, surfing, shopping, receiving information in different forms and a host of other usage attributes both personally and professionally.

The web economy has largely been fed by advertisers vying for eyeballs and attention. Advertisers have been a fundamental resource of the web economy. When a change occurs that alters the old models and creates improved models with a promise of higher returns then said changes are likely to create systemic shifts across the entire web.

You can also see Jay at TNNW "What Say You?"
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Wisecracks in the Workplace

Wisecracks are beneficial in workplace
Kidding around at work is commonly thought of as perilous, as the hit sitcom “The Office” often explores to wincing extremes. Now intense research finds light humor at work is a good thing.



In their study, “The Case for Developing New Research on Humor and Culture in Organizations: Toward a Higher Grade of Manure,” researchers analyzed theories on humor, emotion and mood from several hundred studies in the fields of psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and communications.


Tapestry - Global Cultural News
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Jason Alba: "I'm on LInkedIn -- Now What???"

Jason Alba, TNNW's Career Transition Editor has recently released "I’m on LinkedIn – Now What???", a practical guide to using one of the Internet's most powerful business networking tools. If LinkedIn is a brand new car, then Jason new book is the owner’s manual. This book is a can't miss for those who are still trying to make sense of LinkedIn. Available in paperback and ebook format.
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More on Relationship Networking

OK...so we've been evangelizing the coming of the Relationship Networking Industry for quite some time now. And in the nearly three years that we've been doing this through TNNW, we've been presenting our readers with growing evidence that this is happening.

Latest case in point, a recent article in Computerworld magazine about a recent Web 2.0 event put on by Nokia in California highlighted the growing movement of Web 2.0 technologies and social networking, both online and mobile/wireless. A quote from the article, "A Nokia official concurred that social networks, mobile or otherwise, will spread to the enterprise. 'It's coming, but it might take more time,' said Rob Trice, a partner with Nokia Growth Partners, an investment management firm funded by Nokia."

What's interesting here are two things: the advances in technology are enabling more effective networking, and that there is further evidence of the rise of importance of networking in larger corporations.

Things are certainly moving quickly in ways that we are still trying to understand. Reading between the lines of the all the news feeds tells me that corporations are running scared, trying to keep up with what impact Relationship Networking will have on them.

What's more important here is to recognize that there is a true wave or revolution happening right now. How will you and/or your business respond to it? How can you leverage the current chaotic growing pains of this industry to your maximum benefit? Keep reading TNNW for more news as it develops...

As always, I look forward to Networking with you...

- Adam J. Kovitz

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"Never Ending Friending"

from Digital Hive

The study has many interesting findings; the global theme is "never ending friending"- because social networking is a world where frictionless attraction makes forging relationships easier - and more rewarding - than ever before.

One interesting finding - while users do reach out to new people online, most social networking activity is deepening relationships that already exist in the real world. Also, users claim they are looking for the "authentic" people and seek to reveal things...
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Accessing the Hidden Job Market

from the blog Employment Digest
Career news for experienced executives and technologists…

The Truth Behind the Open Job Market
Most job seekers rely on the open job market which includes job posting boards and help wanted advertisements in local newspapers to source job leads. While it appears on the surface that these search automobiles have an abundant number of job leads, the reality is that very few people secure their positions through these methods of search. Only about 5-10% of people in search find their jobs using these two methods combined. One of the main reasons it is so difficult to land a job through a job board is that the job seeker is faced with insurmountable competition and limited means to differentiate their candidacy. It's not unusual for a hiring manager to receive over 500 resumes for one open position. With no personal relationship with the hiring authority, the job seeker is forced to rely on technology and hope that the resume they submitted for an on the web opportunity contains enough keywords and consistency with the job spec to garner an acknowledgement from the hiring manager.
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Social Capital is Not a Fixed Investment

from J. LeRoy's Evolving Web
Jim Benson's Cooperation Conversations

Do you hate someone who likes you? Have you felt snubbed or insulted by someone you trusted? Has someone who is an utter bastard made you feel bad or self-conscious by saying cruel things?

Or

Have you met someone and really gotten along quickly? Have you taken a previously contentious relationship and made it work well? Has a kind word from a stranger made the whole day seem better?

A lot of this may be due to Social Capital.
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How Open is Open Social?

from
dretblog
Erik Wilde's Web and Information Architecture Musings



google's recently announced Open Social API most importantly is an attempt to get some of the attention that facebook attracted through its facebook API. the idea is simply to more or less mirror the facebook API's functionality in a way which is standardized across social networks. that's good, because developers for social networking apps can now more easily develop them across platforms, and the list of initial supporters of Open Social is impressive (Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING).
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Social Networks for the Boomer Set: Figuring Out What Clicks

TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA

By Sarah Lacy
Business Week Online
11/11/07 4:00 AM PT

Reminiscent of an earlier Web era, Eons has pedigree, cash and eyeballs: it's raised $32 million from Sequoia Capital and General Catalyst Partners. Compare all of this to TeeBeeDee, which has put out a grand total of two press releases and spent a few thousand dollars on marketing. Eons and TeeBeeDee are a study in the contrasts between Webs 1.0 and 2.0...

The site has learned from early mistakes and reacted swiftly, recasting itself as a social network. Eons has slashed marketing and hopes to take off through ...

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OpenSocial Should Enable Social Network Interoperability

from Abhishek Tiwari's blog...
According to OpenSocial, Social Networks and other similar services can play hosts and implement to the standard Google API’s. Developers can write applications to these API’s and are automatically enabled to deploy them on any one of these hosts. This introduces the “Write Once, Run Anywhere” paradigm in the ecosystem. You can read more on their official website.

According to Google’s Vic Gundotra, this is valuable for both developers and host networks. With respect to Users, he mentions that they will receive “more, more and more”. More Applications, More Choices across More Websites.

Frankly, I disagree with Vic there. “More” is not always good. I will even go to the extent of saying that the idea of “More” is the single biggest problem with the social networking experience today. I have written about Social Network overload several times before.
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Power Thought of the Week: Safety Net-Works are Positive

By Patricia Parham, Ph.D., Contributing Writer Pat's Bio RSS feed

Part of networking is assessing what “currency” you have to trade with another and vice-versa. Even when you see no value-add for yourself from someone, don’t write them off. Think of how they might help others. Only voice appreciation for others -- or in the words of an older female in your life, “If you don’t have something good to say, say nothing at all.” Don’t get caught negatively evaluating someone else.

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People, Power & Possibilities: Drumming Up Dreams

By Donna Fisher, Contributing Writer Donna's Bio Email article RSS feed

On Sunday, October 21, 2007, 438 drummers gathered to play drumsets simultaneously at the Texas BigBeat. Our goal was to raise money for Cherish Our Children International and to break the current Guinness World Record for the most drummers playing drumsets simultaneously. Although we missed out on breaking the record (533 drummers), we raised over $15,000 for educational programs for at-risk children and it was an awesome experience of the power of people coming together for a greater good.

When all 438 drummers played "Deep in the Heart of Texas" there were some teary eyes all around the arena. And when some of the children that we were raising money for shared about their lives, there were even more tears in sight.

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Networking Your Website - Commenting on Blogs

By Rita Wilhelm, Contributing Writer Rita's Bio Email article RSS feed

Did you know that you can drive an unbelievable amount of traffic to your website, just by placing comments on other people’s blogs?

A web surfer who is interested in what a blog has to say, will usually read the comments. If there is something in your comment that sparks the curiosity of the surfer, they will click your name, and find themselves on your website or blog.

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Columbian Lawyers

By SCOTT R. FORCINO Esq., Legal Editor Email article RSS feed

This month I examined an organization that which I have attended networking events/meetings. This entity is the COLUMBIAN LAWYERS based in Westchester County, N.Y., founded in 1982. The parent organization, based in N.Y, N.Y. was founded in 1955. The association exists for members of the legal profession from Italian-American descent.

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Forgiveness

By Louise Flodin, Health and Wellness Editor Louise's Bio Email article RSS feed

To Forgive or not to forgive
that is the question:

Think about what hate has done to you and is still doing to humanity worldwide. Continuing to carry around and reopen wounds given us by others is taking a toll on our health in ways people don’t realize.

Take for example lost love, whether though divorce, death or innumerable other pathways; as humans we react to this situation and our reaction takes on many forms of illness. Illness can manifest itself in sleepless nights, migraines, asthma, or esophageal spasm the list is huge. Many suffer a general listlessness or slip into depression, not caring whether they continue on living on this planet while they spiral deeper into a black hole of despair.

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Living Arts National Foundation

By Sian Lindemann, Arts Editor Sian's Bio Email article RSS feed

In the wake of September 11, 2001, Sian Lindemann struggled to place a higher purpose, some sense of explanation, to the unimaginable tragedy. Like many Americans, and indeed many citizens of the global community, Sian sought to create a positive result out of the stunning disaster.

A lifelong artist, Sian knew the potential impact of beauty on individuals, on communities and on the world. Artistic expression transcends logic, defies explanation and extracts our inner-most held beliefs and values. Art compels ordinary citizens to commit acts of remarkable generosity and selflessness. Art levels the playing field, revealing in even the most diverse groups commonalities in spirit and mutual regard for the human experience.

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A Blended Networking Model Comes to the U.S.

By Lori Richardson, Northwest Bureau Chief Lori's Bio Email article RSS feed

Launched five months ago in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, I was excited to participate in the U.S. launch of High Output Networking in Seattle on October 24th. High Output Networking (HOPN) is a new networking concept that blends in-person and virtual connection between business professionals.

According to Patrick Von Pander, High Output's Executive Director, "what helped to inspire our business model and the culture we are creating was the lack of business networking that addressed what WE were looking to connect with (as seasoned businesspeople and veteran networkers with a "get-it-done-now" attitude) in the form of a business networking group.
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The Connect, Grow, Profit Network

By Glen Gould, Southeast Bureau Chief Glen's Bio Email article RSS feed

Phil Minnes knows networking. From successful network marketer to president of the Atlanta Jaycees, Phil has built his business and personal life around meeting, helping and sharing with others. Which is why his involvement in International Business Academies Limited (IBAL) is no surprise. What IBAL does for its members is different.

“It’s a peer support group more so than a networking group” explained Minnes as we chatted recently. “Our programming focuses on getting to know the person” he added. That’s exactly what I observed when I attended a recent IBAL Breakfast at The Buckhead Club in Atlanta. Business owners and high level executives from various backgrounds attend IBAL breakfasts, lunches, socials and strategy sessions each month, learning more about each other and themselves in the process.

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The Modern Networker

By Zale Tabakman, Canadian Bureau Chief Zale's Bio Email article RSS feed

This is an exciting article since it’s the 12th article I have written for the National Networker. I will have completed a full year of writing. It's an accomplishment since I didn’t think I would have anything to write about when I started.

With your permission, I would like to slightly away from normal structure of introducing a person who is doing some interesting networking in Canada. I am going to focus on The Modern Networker.

The Modern Networker loves people and loves to network. But what does it mean to network? The Modern Networker does what she can to make the world a better place.

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