A few weeks ago, we talked about the coming changes in Ryze’s networking model. Today, what I consider to be by far the biggest change goes into effect:

These changes are designed to improve the quality and experience of business networking on Ryze. In particular, they are designed to reduce spam and encourage thoughtfulness Read More...

“If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you.”- Zig Ziglar
We are providing a tool kit on this site to manage your network strategically. However, we acknowledge there is a clear tension between managing your network strategically, and managing your network successfully.
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First of all, a sincere congratulations to Italian IT consultant Carmelo Cutuli, who has now made the top 30 most connected people on LinkedIn. And I’m all for creative use of press releases, but is this really newsworthy?

This article on Gender Gap in Cyberspace is 10 years old, but still seems quite accurate.

I enjoyed reading and recommend this thoughtful, amusing, free profile of the social software sector by Caslon Analytics: social software and online social spaces.
It’s probably an indicator that it was written by someone outside of the American tradition of self-promotion that this lengthy piece is unsigned.
There is a lot of other material on this site Read More...

Scott Allen found this very brief overview of human-computer interaction: http://www.ida.liu.se/~davca/HCInotes/Introduction2HCI.pdf.

Stowe Boyd makes a start at The Ten Commandments of Social Networking:

Social networking applications [SNAs] shall provide explicit and easily used opt-out features; specifically, every message sent by a social networking application on behalf of users, as marketing, or for whatever purpose shall provide a mechanism for complete opt-out, as well as a means to Read More...

Adam Greenfield writes that social networking sites are officially useless to him.
His concerns include:
…the indisputable fact that they introduce awkward social situations that did not otherwise exist, or were at least far less explicit.
…the naked asymmetry. What to do with the “friend” offering a wildly effusive testimonial for you, with whom your acquaintance is so Read More...

I just received this email from Jigsaw:
> Dear Jigsaw Beta Member,
>
> Our Beta Program ended on August 13th and we’ve had a great response
> to the PAY or PLAY options. The Jigsaw community continues to grow
> rapidly, and we now have over 105,000 contacts.
>
> Remember, if you PLAY (and add 25 contacts to Jigsaw Read More...

In addition to these tips: CareerJournal: The Top 10 Blunders Of Online Job Hunters
I would add:
+ Use simple text formatting in your resume: one font size, minimal table usage, no italics, no shadowing, and no graphics. Resumes are often read on a word processing system different than yours, and fancy formatting makes them hard Read More...