At WeCanDo.BIZ we take a different view of business networking to LinkedIn. To us, connecting (again) to your existing Rolodex and then being told not to accept invitations from people you don't know is the wrong way to go about building a business network.
The value on an online network is in connecting with people you DON'T currently know but who have an interest or specific need in what it is you do. To my mind, this is much more likely to lead to business. It's real prospecting made a whole heap easier by the web, rather than just kicking around trying to milk a network you've had forever.
LinkedIn really misses a trick with what it offers. The reason it has so many members is a follow-me attitude that has meant there are perceived to be richer pickings there than on smaller networks. It's a real shame it does little to broker valuable new business relationships.
Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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But who you don'!At WeCanDo.BIZ we take a different view of business networking to LinkedIn. To us, connecting (again) to your existing Rolodex and then being told not to accept invitations from people you don't know is the wrong way to go about building a business network.
The value on an online network is in connecting with people you DON'T currently know but who have an interest or specific need in what it is you do. To my mind, this is much more likely to lead to business. It's real prospecting made a whole heap easier by the web, rather than just kicking around trying to milk a network you've had forever.
LinkedIn really misses a trick with what it offers. The reason it has so many members is a follow-me attitude that has meant there are perceived to be richer pickings there than on smaller networks. It's a real shame it does little to broker valuable new business relationships.
Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz