Posts Tagged ‘socialsoftware’

Five LinkedIN Tips

I’m a big fan of using LinkedIN to establish new networking relationships for business. I don’t stick to the rule of knowing the other people deeply and personally before reaching out. Sometimes, I send invites to people who are in my field, that I know from around the news, but who aren’t personal friends or contacts. Yet. So suffice to say, I spend a lot of time on… » Continue

July 6 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: linkedin, networking, socialnetworks, socialsoftware | 12 comments»

Social Software As Connection Gateways

Why do people bother with MySpace?

I’ll tell you why: people can make connections and communicate and open dialogue. By “adding friends” and building your space, and adding multimedia, and using the tools on there, you can establish connections.

The benefit of using this social sharing sites (Flickr, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIN, Upcoming.org, etc, etc, etc) is that you get a different, digital connection to people. Some are people you’ve not… » Continue

January 1 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: community, flickr, myspace, socialsoftware, twitter, youtube | 2 comments»

Flickr as a Hiring Platform

I’ve done it once and I plan to do it again.

I use Flickr to hire people for my projects. I needed some website art for a project I’m doing, and though I am capable of doing my own art, I realized that there were people who were far more talented than me. So, I looked around my 50 or so Flickr contacts and picked Sonya to do the… » Continue

August 7 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: digg, flickr, myspace, networking, socialnetwork, socialsoftware, web2.0 | 1 comment»