Comments on: Selective vs. promiscuous linking http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2005/03/30/selective-vs-promiscuous-linking Blogs, social network sites, social software---and how to use all of these tools to become dramatically more successful Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:53:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Dutch Driver http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2005/03/30/selective-vs-promiscuous-linking#comment-7847 Dutch Driver Sun, 03 Apr 2005 03:31:01 +0000 http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2005/03/30/selective-vs-promiscuous-linking#comment-7847 Time and again the answer to this question is for LinkedIn to publish activity metrics as an actual reputation system. Endorsements are not real-time information taken from the LI universe. I think the problem they face is that many people will follow the strong ties philosophy that they espouse...in practice, they encourage the addition of weak tie connections by publishing numbers of connections on the profile. Although the connection metric was useful during early launch, a better metric would be the activity since joining LI. And with some Ecademy members now pushing 6000 connnections, it might be time to hide the number of connections, no? Time and again the answer to this question is for LinkedIn to publish activity metrics as an actual reputation system. Endorsements are not real-time information taken from the LI universe.

I think the problem they face is that many people will follow the strong ties philosophy that they espouse…in practice, they encourage the addition of weak tie connections by publishing numbers of connections on the profile. Although the connection metric was useful during early launch, a better metric would be the activity since joining LI. And with some Ecademy members now pushing 6000 connnections, it might be time to hide the number of connections, no?

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