Greg J. Zartman, P.E. wrote: > I disagree with your description of LinkedIn, and > facebook/twitter/etc, with respect to their their importance in > business these days.
Yes, you disagree with me a lot :-) > Social networking is becoming HUGE in the business community. My > wife owns a PR company and regularly works with large PR firms. One > of the first thing these companies do from a PR standpoint is get a > person/company tied in with all of these social networking sites. Perhaps - for the companies and individuals your wife does PR for. They probably need the exposure. Some of us don't, we have too much business already, and are very reluctant to expose our personal details on the 'net. I *do* belong to two exclusive social networking groups - my email address book, and my phone list. But, they are not public, and not on the internet (although, these days, I had better google myself just to check). I belong to LinkedIn because many of the really useful people I know, worldwide, also belong to that group. But, I have *never* met anyone because of their membership in that group. It just happens to be coincidental that we all felt like joining. Perhaps it is an "engineering" thing. > > However, as far as SME is concerned, there is likely little value in a > linkedin group. There is so little traffic as it in the venues we > currently have. I concur. _______________________________________________ Discussion about project organisation and overall direction To unsubscribe, e-mail [email protected] Searchable archive at http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/discussion/
