I love Linkedin, I consider it my online resume. I send link to potential offline clients who are checking me out.

From what I have been seeing Linked-In is more for resumes and touting your abilities as oppossed to a social media platform such as facebook. Facebook allows much more interaction thank linked in.

I do most of my prospecting via LinkedIn where I have over 5000 direct connections.

For B2B, there's no other choice.

thanks for sharing ill check the same

Yes - LinkedIn is taken seriously, its a good way to update colleagues of business changes or position moves.

Altough facebook is the strongest social media optimization source ... but we cannot ignore linkdin at all ... Linkdin also can bring good number of people towards your website

LOVE? WHAT!?!??!?

Facebook isn't even really the same, and linkedin is targeted to BUSINESS, NOT just ANYONE like facebook.

BTW

Linkedin = SERIOUS!
Facebook = JOKE!!!!!!

Steve

Yes, linkedin is my social network strictly for business connections in my offline world.

Linkedin, isn't really targetting the same market as Facebook, as you mentioned Linkedin is for business people and within the company I work for we ALL use Linkedin, to follow, stalk and become friends with clients & network with people we want to talk business with.

Linkedin is also a very strong research basis for finding people who own a certain company, work for a certain company...it's basically an online directory for leads and clients

Well, in reply, I'm very familiar with LinkIn.

The reason that I asked the question I did in the original post, is because I've had my head down, working 16 hour days for quite a long time on a couple of major development projects. My LinkedIn account has been ignored for about 2 years.

Also, my comment about LinkedIn not gettting a lot of love...on the WF there's a lot of comments and discussion about FB, but little about LinkedIn. Just an observation on my part, and probably not a valid one either.

LinkedIn has always been a great networking tool, and it appears that not much has changed recently.

Have a great weekend everybody.

Tom

I get regular inquiries about jobs through LinkedIn. I don’t think it’s for you to contact the people you know directly. It’s for finding those people that are once or twice removed from you, or for them to find you. I got contacted by a recruiter from Google based on my LinkedIn profile and I start there in 3 weeks.

Facebook has embedded ads that can be very reasonably priced, fan pages and a wide range of participants from all walks of life, and WF posters are looking for ways to leverage and monetize all of that.

Linked In's membership isn't really the target market for IM offers particularly of the very common "for just $17 I'll tell you how to make a billion dollars a minute" flavor.

LinkedIn has improved tremendously as a social media network in the last couple of years. For those of us who do consulting it is a great place to connect with potential business.

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