LinkedIn is like MySpace for professional networkers
Thousands of entrepreneurs, professionals and executives are using LinkedIn to solve complex business problems, find customers and potential employees, and build strategic relationships.
For those of you who might not be up on your social networking services, let me explain what LinkedIn is. Consider it the MySpace for the business community. Sites like MySpace and FaceBook have been widely popular with teenagers and young adults.
LinkedIn is a business-oriented, social-networking tool that allows its members to maintain a list of contacts from among people they know and trust in business, make new contacts and reconnect with former colleagues and old friends from high school and college. The people on the list are called "connections." Users can invite anyone, regardless of whether they're a site user or not, to become a connection.
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Authors: Tannette Johnson-Elie
Published Date: 05/13/2008