Tag Archives: LinkedIn

What do you recommend?

Posted on May 21, 2009 by manu prasad

One feature that helps add weight (generally) to a LinkedIn Profile is ‘Recommendations’. I’m not getting into debates on how it’s used etc, that’s a subjective thing, but someone else acknowledging that the concerned person has certain skills does help. … Continue reading →

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Just Business?

Posted on April 2, 2009 by manu prasad

A few days back, LinkedIn added a feature that I’d asked for the last time I wrote about the service – the ability to add RSS feeds to groups. Depending on the functionality enabled by your group manager in any … Continue reading →

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Its complicated

Posted on March 9, 2009 by manu prasad

..and a bit long What do you do when you can’t buy a service? If you have the capability, you build it yourself. That seems to be what Facebook is up to, triggering of what would perhaps be only the … Continue reading →

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LinkedIn…a bit more

Posted on February 2, 2009 by manu prasad

A few weeks back, RWW had an interesting piece on why LinkedIn shouldn’t have Facebook envy, and should not attempt to make itself a destination site like the social networking service. We thought the Valley intelligentsia long ago proclaimed the … Continue reading →

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Brands among sheep

Posted on January 19, 2009 by manu prasad

A few days back, I read a post on Adage, about how Facebook has become a place to collect friends. A large part of the post was about how people one barely knew became ‘friends’, how we all seem to … Continue reading →

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Talking Shop

Posted on December 15, 2008 by manu prasad

My post last week- on the topic of communities that individuals will initiate or will be part of, also made me think of organisations and brands, and what communities they would start/be part of. To begin with, perhaps there would … Continue reading →

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Apperception- LinkedIn

Posted on October 31, 2008 by manu prasad

Apperception – The process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience. Last week, I’d written about some developments in the business networking/enterprise web2.0 space. To make the scenario even more interesting, LinkedIn announced the launch of … Continue reading →

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Corporate Talk

Posted on October 27, 2008 by manu prasad

I’ve always maintained that social media has this uncanny way of stripping the veneer of most entities – be it people, products or organisations. At one point of time, Mouthshut used to be my preferred destination for user reviews. All … Continue reading →

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Twitter – the official version

Posted on September 17, 2008 by manu prasad

There were some pretty interesting new things that came out at TechCrunch50 last week. TC50 was a conference that took place from September 8-10, 2008 where 52 of the ‘best’ startups were launched in front of an audience that consisted of … Continue reading →

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Blurring Social Networking lines

Posted on September 8, 2008 by manu prasad

ET had a story sometime back on how sites like Facebook, LinkedIn etc are helping SMEs and entrepreneurs gain business. It adds on to my belief that when the target is niche market segments, the net is the best medium … Continue reading →

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