Facebook Could Learn a Thing or Two From LinkedIn’s Faceted Search. Business-oriented social network LinkedIn has a new feature out called faceted search. As you search for something or someone, it automatically generates search filters based on your query results that let you quickly refine your search. The filters are based on eight facets: current company, past company, location, relationship, location, industry, school and profile languages. In practice, this means you can create amazingly precise queries. For example, I've searched for web designers in the UK who speak English who used to work at Yahoo and who are my first and second connections (meaning, I'm either friends with them directly, or they're friends of friends).
While this is great for LinkedIn, it also reminds me of how plain and unusable Facebook's search is by comparison. The New York Times and LinkedIn. Building networks facebook, linkedin, twitter. Creating synergy with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube with Site Build It (from SiteSell) can help you build powerful and targeted networks. Lance Scoular, The Savvy Navigator (Founder of Key Directions) Hi Ho and welcome, Just a short note on how you can use Social Media Triangulation to create powerful and comprehensive networks, particularly for business. Before I explain my strategies for utilising Social Media to build powerful networks, I want to ask you an important question: In your view, is Social Media a Fad? If your answer is yes, you might want to watch the short video below. (I have to admit that I thought it was when I started getting invitations to Facebook and LinkedIn from former students and clients in the international trade area back in 2008.
If your answer is No, you can skip the video and read on. Click the video below to play So... ... the next question is... Why build Powerful Social Media Networks? Good Question. How come Social Media Triangulation is the Power-of-4? LinkedIn for Marketing » Blog Archive » CEO of LinkedIn.com gives you tips on how to use LinkedIn - CNN Video. Business functionality requested in Opensim by LinkedIn members « No there there. I’ve been looking at what other people have been suggesting as necessary features for getting business done in virtual worlds. Since there’s a lot of commonality between Second Life, OpenSim and realXtend, I’ll use the term “Second Life”-like Worlds (SLLWs) to describe the family henceforth. The following ideas were mined specifically from a thread started eight months ago on LinkedIn by Mel Casey. They could inform the product managers of any of the SLLWs. (Does OpenSim even have anyone guiding the development?).
Below is a selection of comments from the abovementioned thread, with some edits to improve readability. I’ve added the contributors’ names so you can find their comments in context. Aesthetics Real world lighting (Allan Sturm), Dynamic lighting (Jens Roland) Group Management / IP protection / Security create mass accounts, track avatar actions, change passwords for someone else, move ownership from one person to another, etc. Integration with external systems and information. Q&a on linkedin.