By Scott Allen, on February 27th, 2008 |
By Scott Allen, on February 26th, 2008 | The latest Des Moines Register’s Workbytes takes a look at LinkedIn that is upbeat and optimistic, but also shows the stereotypical cluelessness some people have about how to make good use of LinkedIn:
Workbytes is unsure exactly when we joined, or even how we did it, let alone why, or what we’re supposed to . . .
Read More: Best Description of LinkedIn…Ever
By Scott Allen, on February 26th, 2008 | LinkedIn Mobile: False Start, 5-Yard Penalty, Repeat the Down
In the first hands-on review I’ve seen of the new LinkedIn Mobile, Jeff at Apple Briefs gives it less-than-stellar marks:
In fact, you can’t really do much of anything besides invite people. This makes sense to a certain degree given the medium – mobile phones . . .
Read More: LinkedIn Connections – 2-26-2008
By Scott Allen, on February 25th, 2008 | Earlier today I wrote about the LinkedIn Mobile announcement, but I have to confess that I’m not a big mobile app user myself. I use my cell phone for one thing and one thing only — voice conversation, and generally as little of that as possible.
So I asked my business partner and coauthor . . .
Read More: The Human Network Is a Mobile Network
By Scott Allen, on February 25th, 2008 | Well, the hot LinkedIn story today is the announcement of LinkedIn’s new mobile application. You can access it via your Blackberry, iPhone or other WAP-enabled device at http://m.LinkedIn.com.
LinkedIn has the full announcement over on their blog. There must be 100 tech news stories and blog posts around the web also covering it, but . . .
Read More: LinkedIn Goes Mobile
By Scott Allen, on February 24th, 2008 |
In the process of working on The Emergence of The Relationship Economy, we had the pleasure to meet and collaborate with Cluetrain Manifesto coauthor and social media visionary Doc Searls. Besides writing a terrific foreword to our book, Doc has also been working with my business partner and coauthor Jay Deragon on several initiatives, . . .
Read More: The Impact of Social Media on Selling
By Scott Allen, on February 22nd, 2008 | Seems my 25-minute interview at the Electronic Retailing Association annual conference last November has made its way to YouTube:
I cover a lot of ground — the state of social media and social networking, internet radio, working for b5media and About.com, and more. If we haven’t gotten to meet face-to-face and you ever wondered . . .
Read More: Scott Allen Video Interview
By Scott Allen, on February 20th, 2008 | I was poking around looking for something else and stumbled upon this – wow!
By Scott Allen, on February 19th, 2008 | Educational Value of Social Media
Adam Metz presents the value proposition for social media for educators and some tips for how early adopters can “sell it” to their team. Interesting factoid regarding LinkedIn:
“Education management is one of the top five fastest growing segments on our network,” said LinkedIn’s director of corporate communications, Kay . . .
Read More: LinkedIn Connections 1-19-2008
By Scott Allen, on February 18th, 2008 | Entrepreneurs Need Both LinkedIn and Facebook
In the sea of ongoing debate as to which is “better”, LinkedIn or Facebook, one of my favorite business bloggers, Anita Campbell, has the best, most balanced analysis of the two systems that I’ve seen. Her conclusion:
I can see value in both Facebook and LinkedIn. Facebook seems suited . . .
Read More: LinkedIn Connections – 1-18-2008
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