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Outside of it's tenure in the market, the main reason I like LinkedIn is that it is the social media site most focused on professional connections.
The add ons of groups, Q/A, recommendations, etc. make it that much more valuable for identifying professional connections when I need to find a resource within my network.
After reading the same guidelines Matt mentioned, I submitted a posting I did for my company's blog.
http://sphinn.com/story/53992
This is great! I just sent the link over to several people I know who were working with this.
Thanks!
I really haven't done anything with this yet, outside of register to "put my flag" on my own online identity. Now I'm going to have to spend some time tonight checking this out.
Thanks for the story...
This is an excellent article, backed up with great analytics! Really drives home the point of driving traffic with not only good content, but properly timed content as well.
Thank you!
It is the greatest fear I have with social media. One of the other Sphinns I posted to talked about how today's teens are lacking interpersonal skills due to online social media.
There are big issues that need to be looked at, as people tend to act very differently when they feel insulated from the human being on the other end of an action.
As I alluded to in my comments to that post, if you need further proof that people act very different in person than they do when disconnected, take a look at the way people drive. The average person wouldn't cut into a line at the bank or grocery store. The same person that might hold the door open for an elderly woman entering the post office will often cut her off in the parking lot or not let her into traffic...
I enjoyed the correlation here. Is it possible to build a search engine that takes in user feedback, much like Sphinn or Digg but for URLs instead of articles?
Would this work, or would it be too prone to negative marks from competitors, etc?
What are some of the ideas for change?
I think we are potentially fostering a generation of passive-aggressors.
Just about any time you give someone the ability to separate from the direct interaction with others, yet still interact, you can get a collective atmosphere that is everyone out for themselves.
Next time you are in line at a store or at your company cafeteria, go ahead and cut in front of three people in front of you. What, you won’t do it? Why not?
Let’s put a metal box around you and those three people, let’s say the size of an automobile. Would you do it then?
It is so important to interact at a personal level, but there is definitely an art to doing so. Unfortunately, the only way to learn the craft of communicating at the human level is to practice it at the human level.
I would be very interested knowing what the conversion statistics were for this campaign. It seems like a good tactic. The question is whether or not Facebook has the legs to stand on its own, will be forced to open its platform, or like many (not all) proprietary systems, it inevitably falters.
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