Comments on: LinkedIn: New School vs. Old School Networking

By: Business School Ranking

Business School Ranking — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:39:07 +0000

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By: radiowalker

radiowalker — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:56:55 +0000

Some of the Enterprise Irregulars and I debated this last night over Barolo and plates of pasta larger than my head…

Some of the EIs think feature creep could hurt LinkedIn. I am not advocating per se a wiki platform. What misses the mark is anything innovative remotely on the order of the feel of Facebook.

By: Ric

Ric — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:00:13 +0000

I think I like your idea better than Susan’s though, Jeffrey – the two networks DO have a somewhat different intent, and FB is almost as much a roach motel as LI … so while I use both, it’s for different reasons, and I am more likely to drop FB than LI, because everything I do in FB is a link to somewhere else, and I already converse with the people I am “friends” with there. At Linkedin, it’s a different set of people (some overlap), so I would prefer to see THAT experience improved … a Confluence hook-in sounds ideal!

PS – the t-shirt does good …

By: Susan Scrupski

Susan Scrupski — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:09:25 +0000

Hey Jeff. And, further, I sent a note to all my LinkedIn contacts following in the group founder’s format letting them know my intentions on… dumping. I got a note back from a PR contact on my list which said,
“Susan,

Will abide my your edict.

I also sent your not to a friend of mine who is the head of corporate communications at Facebook. She liked it very much…”

Markets really are conversations, I guess. See you tonight.