I view linked-in as a documentation of my contacts and a platform in which I can endorse others or be endorsed.
Linkedin hasn't created any business for me or my company but when I look at my growing connection list I feel that it helps me organize my business acquaintances and have a way to contact them even after they switch email, change cell or simply disappear. Members have a way to differentiate themselves in their special interests and maybe searching for membership in a LUG or open source activism can give me the possibility to customize my questions or to have a head start in understanding who the person I'm connecting to is and what we can do together (in a open business state of mine). Beyond that a colleague of mine received an offer to work on a python project (propitiatory) through linked-in and thus I assume that this is a possible entry point for projects for contractors. Overall I believe it's a pretty neat network for people like me that are pretty new in acquiring business contacts and I believe that people for this lists that are in the linked in network should emphasize their open source skills or hamakor membership so we can have our own cabal in the linked-in space... p.s. I have no realtionship with any cabal let alone lack the knwoledge (or the connections) to be on eof it members but I believe I have someone in my linked-in contacts that does ... :) Lior On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:41:51 +0200, Danny Lieberman (Barak) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabor , Eli, Evgeny - > > There is room for both LinkedIn and email lists since both have 2 totally > diametric objectives > > LinkedIn is a marketing and sales tool based on a notion from percolation > theory > ( original reasearch was done at Huji and the Technion on percolation models > for marketing new products) that once > the amount of "local connectivity" gets to a certain level - electricity (or > information) will be conducted and people will start talking > to other people who will then start buying your product. > > Email lists are non-intrusive channels for information providers/sharers; > people tend to get perturbed when a list is used as an active marketing > channel - witness the extreme emotional responses generated when I sent out > a newsletter last week. (and I really did mean well) > > - the question is do these channels deliver the goods. Email lists are a > proven p2p support tool. LinkedIn has yet to prove itself as a > social-networking-marketing tool - > I'm in LinkedIn but it hasnt generated a single lead for me in over 2 > years - so afaik it's still just a cool tool. > > just my 2 cents > > Danny > www.software.co.il > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Perl in Israel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:53 AM > Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections > > > > > As I somehow ;) got mixed in this, let me answer on both lists. > > > > > > <marketing-glasses: on> > > > > I think having a distributed model for the same thing LinkedIn > > does *would* be much better but LinkedIn currently has a few > > features that the social network we have now, > > (the one Oron described) does not have. > > > > Naturally there are other feature that our social networks have > > that an online service such as the one we are talking about does > > not have and possibly cannot have. > > > > > > + LinkedIn lets you search in 4 distance. Not only my contacts > > but I can see (to certain degree) information about the contacts > > of my contacts and their contacts... > > (e.g. I cannot see their e-mail) nor can I contact them directly. > > > > + When I am looking for a person at company X I don't have to > > ask all of my contacts if they know someone at that company. > > I can search the database and hope that the person I am looking for > > has joined the system. > > > > - On the other hand if I do ask Oron if he knows someone who > > could help me in marketing he might come up with much better > > ideas than what I could find from his contact list on LinkedIn. > > > > > > Oron, I hope your e-mail was not intended for someone like me > > to run a marketing spiel for LI, was it ?:-0) > > > > > > Gabor > > Resident Perl Monger > > > > ps. > > > > Interestingly another member of linux-il told me this is spam > > when I invited him to join (which might be indeed the case :) > > and then a few weeks later I got an invitation from him. > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Peace Love and Penguins - Lior Kesos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
