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.

The Media Buyer Planner reported that the study found that Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn and Facebook - in that order - are the top four social media tools used by marketers. am now advising my blog clients on Twitter use, although some have used it longer than me and I learned new stuff from them. learned of many cases like this when I did my business blog book. Here is another study on the growing use of social media in marketing. In a survey, Social Media Marketing Industry Report , by Michael Stelzner with almost 700 responses an overwhelming majority (88%) of marketers

cross-functional group spaces to learn about a topic (*usually* comprised of people across different teams). Stowe Boyd has more on this “ shift ” that may be a big cognitive reason that when it comes to individual learning on a topic, networked sharing is cutting into the ease of learning over CoPs: “Contrasting group forums with blogging is a good example in which to make the distinction between group- and individual-oriented social tools. A while back I blogged about the possibility of networks and blogospheres cutting into the need for communities.

In yesterday’s post, I tackled LinkedIn. If, as I noted yesterday, LinkedIn is like a Chamber of Commerce mixer, Twitter is like an outrageous party - picture the Party at the End of the Universe. Unlike LinkedIn, there are no unspoken rules about “business” vs. “not There are Yesterday, I began looking at the three big social networking sites, to help readers understand what the difference is between them. The reason for these posts is simple: I am not a techie, and as I began getting into the arena of social networking, I found that all the information about

Informal Learning Blog home archives about ← Learning Technology 2008 on YouTube The future of management → Adaptation February 10th, 2008 | general CLO, February 2008 Business firms evolve or die . Traditional learning is bursting at the seams because there is always more to learn and unlearn. The network era is crowding out the industrial era. Some organizations will not survive the journey.

In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works. March 20, 2007 Re-Learning the Art of Impromptu Consultation U ntilabout 15 years ago, the way people consulted with each other wasthrough face-to-face meetings and visits (often impromptu,spur-of-the-moment

When you join, choose the option to link your Business Exchange and LinkedIn profiles. Your LinkedIn information will automatically be filled in on your Business Exchange profile page, and you will be able to easily send invitations to your LinkedIn connections. You can let Business Exchange automatically post your reactions to LinkedIn and Twitter. Looking over my traffic stats several weeks ago, I was very surprised to notice that a single visitor had been referred to my blog by Business Week . I

Informal Learning Blog home archives about ← McKinsey’s Global Survey on Enterprise 2.0 The key to the effective enterprise → Social Network Dreamtime August 2nd, 2008 | general This aboriginal painting in Queensland Art Museum in Brisbane, Australia, stopped me in my tracks. Social Network Dreamtime [...] #9 Accelerating innovation — Informal Learning Blog on 02.06.09 The label said the artist’s intent was a bit murky.

Still more people are contacts on LinkedIn where they know when I change job roles, qualifications or publications and speaking engagements. You can read what people say and learn what they are interested in, care about, think and do. Tags: Matt Rhodes Online communities Social Media Social networks customer communities facebook freshminds FreshNetworks linkedin marketing On the Web online communities social media Social network social Image by coleydude via Flickr Some people follow me on Twitter, where I invariably write about work-related things and my interests

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