Just to clarify one point, LinkedIn is designed to help people find
additional connections, it's not a invitation-only club. You have
the ability to accept any request and to post your e-mail address
publicly. The purpose of the service is to identify who you know
that knows someone who you may want to contact. Check it out at
www.linkedin.com.
Now that I think about it, we need a LinkedIn-type service for EDI
trading partners. A list of not just who does EDI, but who does EDI
with whom. In this service, a company would list its supported
transactions, VAN connections, and trading partners. There are
1,500+ subscribers to this message board. Taking 30 percent out for
analysts, vendors, duplicate companies, leaves perhaps 1,000
distinct companies who are conducting EDI. If everyone would
contribute their list of trading partners (let's assume five per
subscriber), we would instantly have a trading partner connection
database of 5,000 (assuming no overlaps).
Harbinger built something like this for the automotive industry,
AutoChain Online. The objective was to allow participants in the
automotive supply chain, suppliers and OEMs, to track e- commerce
readiness of their suppliers.
Does anything like this exist today? Anybody want to help build it?
--- In [email protected], "William J. Kammerer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Eric, you've hit the nail on the head, metaphorically speaking.
> Harbinger was probably an exception though. It's good to know
that they
> weren't insecure: by making it easier to "hook-up" with their
> own subscribers, it may have increased their business in the long
run.
>
> Speaking of hiding e-mail addresses, it would hardly do for an avid
> open-standards advocate to make myself available only by a closed,
> proprietary network like LinkedIn. Especially when open standards
like
> MIME and SMTP provide for universal access using a simple e-mail
> address and whatever e-mail client you prefer. I wouldn't presume
to
> force colleagues and potential customers to bother with signing in
to
> some web site just to communicate with me. I prefer to remain
> approachable.
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