Gabor , Eli, Evgeny - There is room for both LinkedIn and email lists since both have 2 totally diametric objectives
LinkedIn is a marketing and sales tool based on a notion from percolation theory ( original reasearch was done at Huji and the Technion on percolation models for marketing new products) that once the amount of "local connectivity" gets to a certain level - electricity (or information) will be conducted and people will start talking to other people who will then start buying your product. Email lists are non-intrusive channels for information providers/sharers; people tend to get perturbed when a list is used as an active marketing channel - witness the extreme emotional responses generated when I sent out a newsletter last week. (and I really did mean well) - the question is do these channels deliver the goods. Email lists are a proven p2p support tool. LinkedIn has yet to prove itself as a social-networking-marketing tool - I'm in LinkedIn but it hasnt generated a single lead for me in over 2 years - so afaik it's still just a cool tool. just my 2 cents Danny www.software.co.il ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Perl in Israel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:53 AM Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] off-topic: linkedin connections > > As I somehow ;) got mixed in this, let me answer on both lists. > > > <marketing-glasses: on> > > I think having a distributed model for the same thing LinkedIn > does *would* be much better but LinkedIn currently has a few > features that the social network we have now, > (the one Oron described) does not have. > > Naturally there are other feature that our social networks have > that an online service such as the one we are talking about does > not have and possibly cannot have. > > > + LinkedIn lets you search in 4 distance. Not only my contacts > but I can see (to certain degree) information about the contacts > of my contacts and their contacts... > (e.g. I cannot see their e-mail) nor can I contact them directly. > > + When I am looking for a person at company X I don't have to > ask all of my contacts if they know someone at that company. > I can search the database and hope that the person I am looking for > has joined the system. > > - On the other hand if I do ask Oron if he knows someone who > could help me in marketing he might come up with much better > ideas than what I could find from his contact list on LinkedIn. > > > Oron, I hope your e-mail was not intended for someone like me > to run a marketing spiel for LI, was it ?:-0) > > > Gabor > Resident Perl Monger > > ps. > > Interestingly another member of linux-il told me this is spam > when I invited him to join (which might be indeed the case :) > and then a few weeks later I got an invitation from him. > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
