Find out how people really networking online
By Ian Hendry at 23 September, 2008, 9:00 am
Do you want to know how other small business owners, sales, marketing and purchasing professionals network? How much time and money they spend doing it? Whether they prefer face to face or online networking? Whether they are closing business through their Tweets and other online activities? And whether they’d suggest you follow their lead?
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XING proves business people will pay to network online
By Ian Hendry at 11 September, 2008, 12:52 pm
Europe’s answer to LinkedIn has 500,000 paying members; who else can show a 8% premium member base?
XING AG of Germany, widely billed as Europe’s answer to LinkedIn of the US, has announced it has added 140,000 paying members to its base of over 6 million business networking members in the eight months of this year [...]
Tweeting for business - can it work?
By Ian Hendry at 5 September, 2008, 7:32 pm
Twitter can be used for business, claims many an author and SEO expert. But can it really?
I must admit up front that I remained a Twitter sceptic for a long time. To me, “tweeting” seemed little more than a pointless instant message sent out to the ether, with no knowledge of who was reading it [...]
Is the press giving European Web 2.0 businesses a raw deal?
By Ian Hendry at 5 September, 2008, 10:22 am
Is it just me, but does anyone else think that the technology and mainstream press seems to cover only Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other Silicon Valley startups, in spite of some highly innovative Web 2.0 enterprises in Europe?
I remember this sort of thing happening during the Dot Com bubble of the late 90s: “The Valley” [...]
LinkedIn launches Spanish version, but far from its internationalisation
By Ian Hendry at 24 July, 2008, 10:39 am
Business focused social networking LinkedIn has announced that it now has a Spanish version available.
But if anyone is seeing this as a nod towards internationalisation, it isn’t really. Spanish is the least they could do to ensure a real presence in their domestic market, the US, given the number of people who speak only Spanish [...]