I”ve launched a new blog focused exclusively on LinkedIn at www.LinkedIntelligence.com.
Why?
From the welcome message:
I believe that much of the reason for that growth is that LinkedIn does, overall, a very good job of delivering on its promise of being an efficient, time-conservative way of maintaining and leveraging your network of contacts. While you can certainly [...]

I”ll be speaking in London next week and hope that you will join us:
Straight from the Horse’’s Mouth:
How Professional Investors Elicit Maximum Information in Minimum Time from Industry Sources

Sponsored by the Harvard Business School Club of London
Thursday, September 7, 6:30pm
Offices of McKinsey & Co., 1 Jermyn Street near Piccadilly Circus, London
RSVP and prepayment: http://www.hbsa.org.uk/cgi/hbs?do=index&page=event&event=222

Cost: £10.00
“Interviewing [...]

I”m curious to see if anyone has data on the biggest providers of online network services. According to my sources, they include:
Yahoo Groups-90m users
MySpace-100m users (and many thousands more in the last day or so, no doubt)
Classmates.com-40m users
Neopets-30m users
Facebook-7.7m users
Jeff Weiner, SVP of Yahoo Search and Marketplace, reported at Yahoo Analyst Day on May [...]

Do you want to break free of Microsoft’’s grip? Use exclusively web-based apps, most of them free?
If you do, try reviewing Ismael Ghalimi‘’s list of ”best-of-breed” web apps, which together provide a reasonable approximation of the Microsoft Office Suite.
http://itredux.com/blog/office-20/my-office-20-setup/

We haven”t talked much about SMS on this site, but I”ve been playing with Google SMS, which is a useful service. (Yes, I know i”m late to the party with this…)
Google SMS is a new service that enables you to search for certain kinds of information with Google from a mobile phone or handheld [...]

The Presentation of Self in the Information Age
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5435.html

by John Deighton
Executive Summary:
In the past, we knew a lot about the seller of a product (through ads, marketing, or reputation) but little about the individual buyer. Times have changed. From the Internet to store loyalty cards, technology has made the marketplace into an interactive exchange where the [...]

From Harvard Business School Working Knowledge:
The researchers identified four successful tactics for obtaining stretchwork that were common to both groups:
* Differentiate competence. Anyone hoping to advance must distinguish his or her performance on the job. This is particularly true, however, for contract workers—because they are paid for each short-term job, their [...]

Many business users of social networking sites have heard Mark Granovetter’’s 1973 paper, The Strength of Weak Ties, which concluded that “weak ties”, rather than “strong ties”, were more helpful in finding a job. This is often used as an argument to justify connecting with as many people as possible in social networking sites, even [...]

In the LinkedInnovators Yahoo Group, the perennial debate has re-surfaced about LinkedIn linking behaviors — is it better to connect with as many people as possible? Or only those you already know? Or somewhere in between?
In the course of the conversation, Barbara Dobrinsky Holtzman posed the question:
If you already know everyone you need to know [...]

David and I will be participating in Fast Company’’s third annual blog-a-thon, FC Now BlogJam 2006 this Monday and Tuesday, 8/14-8/15. I”m a long-time reader of the magazine, and David and I have had a monthly column about virtual business relationships there for nearly two years now.
Some of the notable participants in this year’’s BlogJam [...]