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was interviewed recently for a piece on using Linkedin for networking. The article was looking specifically at how pharmaceutical executives could benefit from the kind of networking opportunities that Linkedin can provide. You can read the full article in the latest edition of Pharmaceutical Executive Digest Europe , but the interview got me thinking about the ways in which people can use Linkedin as a networking tool, and also how you can gain some (but not all) of the benefits that you would get Image via CrunchBase I

This month's Online Community Expert Interview is with Allen Blue of LinkedIn . LinkedIn has traditionally been the professional network of choice, and has experienced a surge in use and attention in recent months because of the increase in job-seeking activity.Allen is one of the co-founders of LinkedIn , where he manages the Content and Communities division, covering LinkedIn's Groups, Events, Answers, Communication and Network Updates products. Q: What excites you most about He was formerly Director of Product Design at SocialNet.com, a social networking service supporting dating, recreational and professional activities, where he was responsible for product design and implementation of SocialNet’s member-data focused business model.

LinkedIn blocked because it’s an excellent jobsearch tool? Using the company’s mobile phone to watch YouTube videos? jobsearching on company time, and so on.  TWO: BROWN BAG EDUCATION LUNCH - PR social MEDIA TRAINING for WHOLE COMPANY For Public Relations who are concerned about Crisis Communication in Social Networks and are responsible for Social Media Training across the organisation. Facebook banned in the workplace?

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I’m Not Actually a Geek May 11, 2008 Do Companies Need Social Media Managers? Filed under: mba — Tags: enterprise 2.0 , social media , web 2.0 — Hutch Carpenter @ 9:38 pm There are few institutions in the modern world that are not being transformed today by social media. But all of these companies had a chance to incubate and grow an enthusiastic set of early adopters, which leads to broader usage. Shel Israel, Global Neighborhoods, 5 New Social Media Turn-ons for me. Encouraging use and engagement with [social] tools is an area that all organizations find they have a need for at some point and time.

But most companies make it harder than it should be. Article Comments more in Business » Email Printer Friendly Share: facebook ↓ More StumbleUpon Digg Twitter Yahoo! Buzz Fark Reddit LinkedIn del.icio.us MySpace Save This ↓ More Text

It would be criminal to waste your organizations precious resources by reinventing the wheel when you can easily find out how other leading organizations have already solved the same problem, or created an innovative process or system similar to what you need. 1 2 next › last » November 2005 Tags: Innovation , Technology , Leadership Digg StumbleUpon Facebook Twitter Buzz Up! LinkedIn Sign in or register to comment. Username: * Password: * or Forgot password?

for Companies The times they are a-changin. Employees are concerned about their jobs, companies are preparing for negative growth. improves three critical components of companies success: innovation, productivity and responsiveness. In that spirit, we want to discuss a fantastic academic paper that studies the effects of IT, multitasking and social networks The Connectbeam Social Computing Blog A resource and viewpoint from Connectbeam on how social computing is changing the way we work. We cover the broader market and what we are doing at Connectbeam.

Take for example the recent integration of LinkedIn with Twitter . You can now tweet your LinkedIn status to your Twitter followers and automatically post your tweets to your LinkedIn status. It is easy to see that this Twitter-LinkedIn partnership has many practical implications. We learn nearly every day of developments in the social media world which have the potential for far reaching impact. Based on my research, these are my top 10 takeaways from the new Twitter-LinkedIn hookup: