Social computation and creativity » Blog Archive » Knowledge mar. Social computation and creativity » Blog Archive » Linkedin Answ. Linkedin Answers is a knowledge market by Linkedin similar to ones of 3form, Naver, Yahoo, and others. However there are three things that make Linkedin Answers unique: its user base, its use of the network topology, and its ’suggest an expert’ feature. Linkedin is a social network for business people and professionals, so due to its positioning many of its users are experts in their specific areas. Most experts have to specialize to get a deep knowledge in a certain area. As a result, they have to sacrifice knowledge outside of that area.
This division of labor makes an ideal environment for a knowledge market.Linkedin uses its social network to determine whom to ask the questions: the idea here is that you will be more willing to provide answers to the questions of people connected to you. In a sense, this is an affinity market. Combining knowledge market and social network is not novel to Linkedin. Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn. Most people use LinkedIn to “get to someone” in order to make a sale, form a partnership, or get a job. It works well for this because it is an online network of more than 8.5 million experienced professionals from around the world representing 130 industries.
However, it is a tool that is under-utilized, so I’ve compiled a top-ten list of ways to increase the value of LinkedIn. Increase your visibility.By adding connections, you increase the likelihood that people will see your profile first when they’re searching for someone to hire or do business with. In addition to appearing at the top of search results (which is a major plus if you’re one of the 52,000 product managers on LinkedIn), people would much rather work with people who their friends know and trust.Improve your connectability.Most new users put only their current company in their profile.
Amp; Introducing the Ajaxian.com Link. Friday, September 29th, 2006 <>p>We are excited to announce the Ajaxian.com LinkedIn Community program. Every day we get numerous requests from companies to find candidates, from candidates looking for new opportunities, community members asking us who would be right person to talk about one thing or another, request for introductions, etc. Meanwhile, we have never gotten around put in place a user community for Ajaxian.
There’s no registration, no monthly updates, just good old RSS and your comments on the site. We are therefore suggesting that you participate with us in an experiment that we think we’ll all benefit from – the Ajaxian.com LinkedIn Community program. Here’s how it works: you simply sign up in LinkedIn.com, a very popular social networking site, and “connect†to the user named “Ajaxian.com Community†by sending an invitation to linkedin@ajaxian.com. Introducing AxiomAn XML Object model should be memory efficient and fast in processing XML.