{"id":1981,"date":"2008-02-13T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/linkedin-might-be-an-antique-but-it-still-rocks\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T19:50:00","slug":"linkedin-might-be-an-antique-but-it-still-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/linkedin-might-be-an-antique-but-it-still-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn might be an antique, but it still rocks…"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a> While we’re off the topic of outsourcing, I’ve been having some great conversations about social networking this week. Jonathan Yarmis<\/a> has joined AMR Research to lead the analyst charge in studying this space and has some great perspectives on where social networking is headed – look out for his research in the coming months. New social media networking tools like Twitter<\/a> and Snitter<\/a> are enabling people to have multiple interactions with their networks where immediate synchronicity isn’t essential. Instant messenger clients, i.e. Skype, Yahoo, MSN, can be intrusive to people who have a heavy work schedule, and these new tools are more adaptable to people lives and work environments. We have to remember, this all really started with good ol’ LinkedIn<\/a>, which has generated a powerful network of professionals who are connected on the Internet. The big challenge of the Twitters of this world is to get the less tech-savvy people to sign-up (i.e. 98% of the LinkedIn network). LinkedIn kept it relative simple – just copy and paste your resume into a form and you’re away. So while LinkedIn is positively antiquated these days, it is the one tool that has pretty much everyone on it… and has some great features like Q&A where you can pose questions to huge networks of people interested in that topic. It’s a powerful tool when you can get 50 or so people offering opinions and advice on business issues such as offshoring, or IT questions to solve immediate problems.<\/p>\n