Posts Tagged with ‘business-networking’

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Today LinkedIn is launching an advertising network of its own that will be sure to add some nice revenue stream to the already quite healthy company. Right now LinkedIn sells ads that various visitors of the network see when browsing the website with CPM rates surprisingly high for the social networking industry - starting at $30 CPM.
The newly launched LinkedIn Audience Network will include some publishing partners that will be able to sell ads on their sites via the network [...]

It looks like the business social network LinkedIn has chosen a step-by-step approach to developing LinkedIn Groups. When the functionality was launched initially it only had the very basic features enabling users to create groups and invite people to join. Those users joining groups were able to show what groups they belonged to on their profiles to get some extra visibility to the groups. So the groups were intended mostly to demonstrate some communities you belong to for professional reasons.
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So now that LinkedIn has allowed search for groups, group functionality has finally become useful, I think. While before today you had to browse profiles of other users to discover some groups you might be interested in joining, now you can actually perform a search to find the interesting groups.
Availability of search within groups was announced 3 days ago and the feature went live today. In fact, it is an interesting approach since I've never seen a [...]

LinkedIn has become a player in the social networking game by concentrating on offering a connecting point for the busy professional. If you want to connect with people in your industry and network online, LinkedIn has become the place to do it. Without the obnoxious and time consuming games of FaceBook and the hideous page designs of MySpace, LinkedIn is a safe haven for the tech savvy business person.
LinkedIn has been adding features to become a more useful destination [...]

Having received an invitation to join Connectture from one of my Plaxo business contacts and ever being on the prowl for options to expand my network in the most affirmative and proficient manner possible I decided to test it out.
As always, I start my evaluations of anything new with what my first impressions are. I will admit Connectture has a great icebreaker when it comes to first impression presentation. All those cheery faces and the enticing fact that Connectture [...]

This question has been haunting me since being posted on my Facebook fun wall by a colleague of mine. I needed to find an answer and put the nagging ghost to rest.
“Is Facebook a business application?”
Having previously joined Facebook myself out of curiosity and the fact like all techies I liked NSO’s (New Shiny Objects) I decided to begin my search by reading what Facebook itself had to say. Something I had not bothered with prior based on the fact [...]

One of the good things about blogs and social networking, is the fact that people share ideas, news and suggestions through comments and other interactions – and in the process, give information about their own plans, products and services. Today’s article is based on a similar interaction – thanks to Brent Halliburton, who shared his thoughts on business models, and about his own plans with Cogmap.
Cogmap is an intriguing experiment in business focused networking. If you’ve ever had to interact [...]