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Amidst all the hype and media coverage of Facebook’s recent IPO and the rise of Pinterest, there is one powerful social network that you are probably a member of and not even using it to its full extent – LinkedIn. At 150 million users worldwide and growing, LinkedIn is the largest professional network online and [...]

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A couple weeks ago Tim Berry posted about how social media is actually publishing, and if you publish, you are not private, and how people you might not want to read your posts, such as employers, licensing boards, etc., may do just that. Here is another example of how what you put up on the [...]

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The headline says Social Networking is Not a Business*, with an asterisk. Below, right under the introduction, is “*but it might be soon.” That’s the lead story in the latest MIT Technology Review (it’s free, but registration is required to read the story). The lead goes as follows: Web 2.0–the dream of the user-built, user-centered, [...]

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