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August 06, 2007

My First Viewpoint Column at BusinessWeek.com: "Confessions of a LinkedIn Dropout"

Earlier today BusinessWeek.com published my first Viewpoint column: "Confessions of a LinkedIn Dropout."

The column was inspired from some of my recent social media related blog posts including: "Goodbye LinkedIn. Hello Facebook.", "Party 2.0: Give Real-time Social Networking a Try" and "Social Media 2007: Join My Homeroom."

Please take a look and feel free to share your comments and join the discussion over at BusinessWeek.com.

Tags: twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Social Media, Jeff Pulver

Posted by jeff on August 6, 2007 07:24 AM | Permalink

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I get that you like facebook, and that it is easier than your business network. But I can't help it, but to feel like you just walked into your teenager's room and decided all of the sudden their music was better, their crazy posters and mess was better than yours.
I often wondered if anybody at all even though of the reprecusions on the college age students. It was almost like you took something good, not trashy like my space and decided to brake the rules. 'cuz long before your age group joined there were rules that some of you guys have violated. Rules like don't say, "thanx for the add" or don't place trashy pictures of yourself, facebook is far from trash or simply facebook is for FRIENDS, hopefully you have at least met them once before you add them. There was time when you had to request for them to add your school. And they had to check and see how the different school networks worked. Yes, sure, most of the rules were unspoken rules, but a society had been formed way before any other age group decided that what the college students had was 'cool' for them too.

Posted by: collegestudent at August 7, 2007 10:37 AM

Jeff, your writing for Businessweek? Maybe now it's time I resubscribe! Great Luck with it!

Posted by: Richard Kligman at August 7, 2007 03:19 AM

Hi Jeff,

You may've seen my comment on your viewpoint piece as well. I'm the Community Evangelist at LinkedIn and a reader of your blog. I also write my own personal blog called Marketing Nirvana.

I understand you've moved away from LinkedIn, but if you'd like, I'd love to give you a walk-through on how you can better leverage LinkedIn for professional networking; particularly given your role as a consultant, blogger and thought leader.

Personally, I've always kept my social and
professional networks separate. But that's just me :)

Either way, if you've any questions, I can be reached at msundar@linkedin.com. Hope to hear from you soon.

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Posted by: Mario Sundar at August 6, 2007 04:12 PM

As someone that has space on Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace, I really hope that one pulls away from the competition so that I can reduce my workload.

All of these sites require me to bring my own contacts, load 'em up and then actively manage the relationship. No time saving, value add for me. But I have provided each of these sites with several hundred contacts so the site can sell more advertising.

Yes, I am 'benefiting' from the whole '6 degrees of separation' concept but to be honest 'a friend of a friend' is still a stranger until we begin to communicate and assist each other.

So, here's where I sit. Most of my contacts are on LinkedIn and that's where I will stay until they move. And even then, as long as they decide to keep LinkedIn in their repertoire, I see no sense in moving.

No excuse me while I go back to working my network thru email and telephone like I have been doing since the early 1990's.

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August 06, 2007

My First Viewpoint Column at BusinessWeek.com: "Confessions of a LinkedIn Dropout"

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