Are Business Focused Social Networks Delivering What We Want?
Blog LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com) is the largest of the apparent business focused social networks, with some 23 million members. Xing (http://www.xing.com) has much of what LinkedIn offers but across several languages and is strong in mainland...
[July 2, 2008, 9:41]
Web 2.0: What Is It Good For?
Blog LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com) is a professional networking site which is heavily skewed towards personal progression and career advancement. LinkedIn is a US-based site, although popular in the UK with over 1 million members here.
[July 18, 2008, 13:43]
Why Most Business Focused Social Networks Are Missing Their Own Market
Blog LinkedIn, Xing and now IBM's Bluehouse are hot news. And yet if you take a look at professional networking leaders LinkedIn and Xing, personal profiles read more like CVs than they do as promotion platforms for the businesses that the individual...
[October 7, 2008, 10:32]
Tweeting For Business - Can It Work?
Blog And my use involves a panel in my iGoogle dashboard which tells me what everyone I follow is up to; Twitterrific on my iPhone which gives me all updates when I am mobile; Ping.fm which syncs my tweets up with most of the other social media I am on...
[September 3, 2008, 17:25]
VISA Helps Facebook To Woo Small Businesses
Blog Business focused sites like LinkedIn and Xing should offer a better capability to network with peers and get access to wealthy new customers, but both have roots set in the technology and media sectors (just because that's where the early adopters...
[June 25, 2008, 13:02]
European LinkedIn Rival XING Triples Its Earnings
Blog Comment WeCanDo.BIZ http://www.linkedin.com I think LinkedIn is great for catching up with former work colleagues. What does LinkedIn offer to help me identify prospects, help me engage with them and get me endorsed to them by people I trust?
[July 25, 2008, 9:59]
XING Proves Business People Will Pay To Network Online
Blog Europe's answer to LinkedIn has 500,000 paying members; who else can show a 8% premium member base? XING AG of Germany, widely billed as Europe's answer to LinkedIn of the US, has announced it has added 140,000 paying members to its base of over 6...
[September 11, 2008, 14:03]
Had To Happen
Talkback This had to happen and it comes in a week when it has been reported that LinkedIn has Nigerian 419 scammers using its site. Ian Hendry http://www.wecando.biz That said, it's probably easier for social networking vendors to catch and disable such...
[April 22, 2008, 23:36]
European LinkedIn Rival XING Triples Its Earnings
Blog Comment An interesting articled popped up today which reinforces my view of LinkedIn as the the largest job marketplace out there. Recruitment giants Harvey Nash have done a survey which reveals that 90% of senior players are increasingly turning to...
[July 31, 2008, 9:14]
VISA Helps Facebook To Woo Small Businesses
Blog Comment Specificly, how weird I think it is that LinkedIn is taking a community of 20 million business people and is likely to start trying to sell them posh shirts and fancy meals when sitting in their database is all a B2B business person could ever...
[June 25, 2008, 15:21]
LinkedIn About To Be Acquired?
Blog Rumours are circulating that business-focused social networking site LinkedIn could, once again, be an acquisition target. Several months after the last set of rumours died out, Eric Eldon and Matt Marshall at VentureBeat (http://venturebeat.com...
[May 13, 2008, 17:43]
Viadeo And LinkedIn Add New Members, Features
Blog French social network for business Viadeo has announced its acquisition of Spain's IctNet in an attempt to increase its international reach and close the gap on leader LinkedIn and rival European site Xing.
[July 9, 2008, 9:37]
European LinkedIn Rival XING Triples Its Earnings
Blog XING AG, professional network LinkedIn's strongest rival in Europe, has reported its half year results and they show phenomenal growth -- great news for business focused social networks in the current economic gloom.
[July 23, 2008, 14:53]
IBM Boss Spells Out A Better Future
Talkback You’d think the head of a global tech empire would be fascinated with “scaling trust,” or looking to online network models derived from eBay, Amazon, mySpace, or LinkedIn. Trusted Advisor Associates www.trustedadvisor.com
[June 17, 2006, 19:57]
What's Happened To OpenSocial?
Blog Not many others on the web shared my view, however, as Google soon showed an impressive list of supporters, including LinkedIn, Plaxo, Hi5, Ning and Salesforce.com and others joining MySpace. CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ http://www.wecando.biz
[June 30, 2008, 9:16]
Web 3.0 - Not Yet Thank You!
Blog In fact the main way in which you can say businesses touch Web 2.0 is with individuals within those businesses having a profile on sites like Ecademy, LinkedIn or Xing. I read with some mirth a post from Ecademy co-founder Penny Power on her own...
[May 9, 2008, 11:31]
Social Media's Double Edged Sword
Blog Comment Examples of this are forums, blogs, life streaming/micro-blogs, and social networking sites like Ecademy, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and ours at WeCanDo.BIZ. WeCanDo.BIZ http://www.wecando.biz Bruce Your pornography quote is one of my favourites...
[August 1, 2008, 14:32]
The Genome For The True Social Web?
Blog MySpace, LinkedIn and Facebook may have opened our eyes to the possibilities of social networking, but I have always been convinced that the REAL value for web users will come through smaller, more focused social networks appealing to specific...
[July 20, 2008, 18:03]
LinkedIn Taking A Wrong Turn On The Way To Revenue?
Blog Comment CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ http;//www.wecando.biz Darren, thanks for your comments. I am reminded of the valuations that people put on their companies before walking into the Dragons' Den. And what they are always told is that a valuation in the future...
[June 26, 2008, 14:35]
