Offline, someone wrote to me directly and posed the question(s): Why have more Connections of LinkedIn? Why use a LinkedIn compared/contrasted to a mailing list?
I thought that my thoughts were actually worth posting here. LinkedIn, Jigsaw, HotJobs, Monster, Dice, MySpace, Facebook, yahoo, google, Adobe, IBM, Oracle... -- evidence of the success and integration of the [social] networking aspect of using the Internet to get something done is evident everywhere. I dont think that LinkedIn itself, is everyone's answer -- but what LinkedIn represents on the Internet is important. Even if you don't want to ever use LinkedIn yourself, understanding it more fully (for say dispassionate professional purposes) by taking an opportunity to precisely examine the tools of LinkedIn and what the potential benefits and advantages there are to using them robustly is well worth the time. For example, LinkedIn has embedded within the structure professional Q&A/advice-style internal mailing lists too. Also, all communications on LinkedIn can be public or private, professional or personal (essentially online or offline, so to speak) without going out of the interface or needing to state that you are going private or off list, or using multiple email addresses. One, technically, doesn't even need email addresses. One more just uses the right tool/technique for the communication job. I believe that what LinkedIn is and how LinkedIn works (and how it even came to be) is closely meshed with the expansion and growth of the Internet/Web 2.0 way of life and doing business. I would posit that it is highly probable that in the future more and more groups/associations will be more like a LinkedIn or [social] networks from the get go. (In fact, it would seem, that future is already here. First thing college kids join is Facebook. Then other local specialized [social] networks.) I would proactively support the aggressive spread of PHP professionals (individually and formally as a Group) into LinkedIn territory since yesterday. Many already have. Warmest regards, Peter Sawczynec Technology Dir. Sun-code Interactive Sun-code.com 646.316.3678 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
