Comments on: Your LinkedIn network is getting less valuable with the day http://thenextweb.com/2008/09/03/your-linkedin-network-is-getting-less-valueable-with-the-day/ International technology news, business & culture Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:59:37 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Is LinkedIn Still a Valuable Marketing Tool? | Straight North Internet … | FastMkn.com http://thenextweb.com/2008/09/03/your-linkedin-network-is-getting-less-valueable-with-the-day/#comment-546210 Is LinkedIn Still a Valuable Marketing Tool? | Straight North Internet … | FastMkn.com Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:55:21 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3925#comment-546210 [...] “Yesterday a business student interviewed me for his master thesis about the perceived trustworthiness within social networking sites. He wanted to know how I shaped my judgments about people on LinkedIn. His last question blew me away, although is was very simple. ‘How will LinkedIn be evolved in five years?’. I had never really thought about this. After a few minutes, I realized my LinkedIn network will be quite useless then. When we were discussing this devaluation, we both acknowledged it had two main reasons. We’re too friendly, and a lot of people go separate ways.” Ernst-Jan Pfauth, The Next Web [...] [...] “Yesterday a business student interviewed me for his master thesis about the perceived trustworthiness within social networking sites. He wanted to know how I shaped my judgments about people on LinkedIn. His last question blew me away, although is was very simple. ‘How will LinkedIn be evolved in five years?’. I had never really thought about this. After a few minutes, I realized my LinkedIn network will be quite useless then. When we were discussing this devaluation, we both acknowledged it had two main reasons. We’re too friendly, and a lot of people go separate ways.” Ernst-Jan Pfauth, The Next Web [...]

]]> By: Is LinkedIn Still a Valuable Marketing Tool? | Straight North Internet Marketing Blog http://thenextweb.com/2008/09/03/your-linkedin-network-is-getting-less-valueable-with-the-day/#comment-545710 Is LinkedIn Still a Valuable Marketing Tool? | Straight North Internet Marketing Blog Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:27:59 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3925#comment-545710 [...] “Yesterday a business student interviewed me for his master thesis about the perceived trustworthiness within social networking sites. He wanted to know how I shaped my judgments about people on LinkedIn. His last question blew me away, although is was very simple. ‘How will LinkedIn be evolved in five years?’. I had never really thought about this. After a few minutes, I realized my LinkedIn network will be quite useless then. When we were discussing this devaluation, we both acknowledged it had two main reasons. We’re too friendly, and a lot of people go separate ways.” Ernst-Jan Pfauth, The Next Web [...] [...] “Yesterday a business student interviewed me for his master thesis about the perceived trustworthiness within social networking sites. He wanted to know how I shaped my judgments about people on LinkedIn. His last question blew me away, although is was very simple. ‘How will LinkedIn be evolved in five years?’. I had never really thought about this. After a few minutes, I realized my LinkedIn network will be quite useless then. When we were discussing this devaluation, we both acknowledged it had two main reasons. We’re too friendly, and a lot of people go separate ways.” Ernst-Jan Pfauth, The Next Web [...]

]]> By: encore http://thenextweb.com/2008/09/03/your-linkedin-network-is-getting-less-valueable-with-the-day/#comment-504521 encore Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:24:21 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3925#comment-504521 Goos Stuff and interesting ideas floating around. Social Networks do play enormous role in this day and age. Corporations have a way to let their employees connect, and it plays important role for <a href="http://encoreinteractives.com/" rel="nofollow"> small business search engine optimization service and internet marketing. </a> Goos Stuff and interesting ideas floating around. Social Networks do play enormous role in this day and age. Corporations have a way to let their employees connect, and it plays important role for small business search engine optimization service and internet marketing.

]]> By: Gert Jan http://thenextweb.com/2008/09/03/your-linkedin-network-is-getting-less-valueable-with-the-day/#comment-366086 Gert Jan Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:58:41 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3925#comment-366086 I think it is interesting for sales people to see what company relations are, who is making decisions etc. And for headhunters off course. I think it is interesting for sales people to see what company relations are, who is making decisions etc. And for headhunters off course.

]]> By: Ruben http://thenextweb.com/2008/09/03/your-linkedin-network-is-getting-less-valueable-with-the-day/#comment-366085 Ruben Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:14:25 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3925#comment-366085 I often "refuse" contacts by just archiving their request (denying seems too harsh since you also block them in that case). But if the problem of clutter arises, or worsenes, LinkedIn could make a feature to put a value on your contacts. Value could be connected to how often you've had contact, if you have them on other social networks, how many connections you share, how many groups, places, interests, jobs, whatever you share, etc... My guess is that currently the clutter isn't bad enough for them to implement stuff like that, so I guess LinkedIn is still growing :) I often “refuse” contacts by just archiving their request (denying seems too harsh since you also block them in that case).

But if the problem of clutter arises, or worsenes, LinkedIn could make a feature to put a value on your contacts. Value could be connected to how often you’ve had contact, if you have them on other social networks, how many connections you share, how many groups, places, interests, jobs, whatever you share, etc…
My guess is that currently the clutter isn’t bad enough for them to implement stuff like that, so I guess LinkedIn is still growing :)

]]> By: Eric http://thenextweb.com/2008/09/03/your-linkedin-network-is-getting-less-valueable-with-the-day/#comment-366084 Eric Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:46:15 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3925#comment-366084 Ernst-Jan, I still added you on LinkedIn today. Let's see how valuable we will be for each other in 5 years ;) Ernst-Jan, I still added you on LinkedIn today. Let’s see how valuable we will be for each other in 5 years ;)

]]> By: Allan http://thenextweb.com/2008/09/03/your-linkedin-network-is-getting-less-valueable-with-the-day/#comment-366083 Allan Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:03:12 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3925#comment-366083 Nice article, your right. I've been thinking about how LinkedIn has helped me. Once I add a contact I usually don't do anything with that connection. LinkedIn is good for finding a job but still takes a lot of work to transact business. Nice article, your right. I’ve been thinking about how LinkedIn has helped me. Once I add a contact I usually don’t do anything with that connection. LinkedIn is good for finding a job but still takes a lot of work to transact business.

]]> By: Gard Jenssen http://thenextweb.com/2008/09/03/your-linkedin-network-is-getting-less-valueable-with-the-day/#comment-366082 Gard Jenssen Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:09:12 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3925#comment-366082 My point is that you can do a lot more with LinkedIn than you can with a phone directory or your Outlook contacts file. And as with any network the value of the network increases exponentially with the number of nodes (members, connections). So, no again, I think your conclusion is fundamentally wrong and that your view of LinkedIn is misconceived. Perhaps because you want to do something else with it than what it was intended for? One thing they need to develop though is annotation for each member so that I can note down a few lines for each person such as where did we meet, etc. I agree that it becomes hard to keep track of thousands of relationships. Still if you follow what some of the LinkedIn hardcore networkers do, you'll find that maybe just the fact that you are connected 1st degree to someone can be enough of an icebreaker to make things happen for you. PS: Some more ideas on how you can use LinkedIn: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/01/ten_ways_to_use.html reGARDs :-) My point is that you can do a lot more with LinkedIn than you can with a phone directory or your Outlook contacts file. And as with any network the value of the network increases exponentially with the number of nodes (members, connections). So, no again, I think your conclusion is fundamentally wrong and that your view of LinkedIn is misconceived. Perhaps because you want to do something else with it than what it was intended for?

One thing they need to develop though is annotation for each member so that I can note down a few lines for each person such as where did we meet, etc. I agree that it becomes hard to keep track of thousands of relationships. Still if you follow what some of the LinkedIn hardcore networkers do, you’ll find that maybe just the fact that you are connected 1st degree to someone can be enough of an icebreaker to make things happen for you.

PS: Some more ideas on how you can use LinkedIn: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/01/ten_ways_to_use.html

reGARDs :-)

]]> By: Ernst-Jan Pfauth http://thenextweb.com/2008/09/03/your-linkedin-network-is-getting-less-valueable-with-the-day/#comment-366081 Ernst-Jan Pfauth Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:39:05 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3925#comment-366081 right, you only use a phone directory when you need one right, you only use a phone directory when you need one

]]> By: Ernst-Jan Pfauth http://thenextweb.com/2008/09/03/your-linkedin-network-is-getting-less-valueable-with-the-day/#comment-366080 Ernst-Jan Pfauth Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:38:47 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3925#comment-366080 appreciate it! appreciate it!

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