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Great blog and fabulous work on collating all the ...

2009-11-11T07:10:10.391-08:00

Great blog and fabulous work on collating all the valuable information in this post. I'm the founder of the Community Marketing Blog who ran the Blog-Off contest.

Coincidentally I'm launching Blog-Off II right now with a stellar panel of judges and online social media/marketing experts. To your point on the article, it will be fascinating to see what role Facebook plays on

Hi, I've been wondering what the public opinion is...

2009-06-11T15:30:22.163-07:00

Hi, I've been wondering what the public opinion is...and I have some insight now. I agree on the difference in "professionalism" between Facebook and LinkedIn. I use both, as well as Plaxo. They all add some value to my real interest: connections. What Facebook has done for me is show business people as real people, if you know what I mean. It's great to see that someone who can

I am the founder of the Leave translation to trans...

2009-06-08T03:08:02.118-07:00

I am the founder of the Leave translation to translators group.
Obviously, Facebook is not a professional networking site and I do more of my professional things by other means. But I would still day that the group is effective, having even been mentioned in a recent article in a linguistics magazine.
The group is a platform and a statement. People have found jobs via it before and it

I would also question the assumption that the size...

2009-06-05T16:58:42.970-07:00

I would also question the assumption that the size of the group is a real indication of influence or value.

For me, the quality of the discussion and professional focus would be of much greater value than group size and many discussions which get no take up or connect with the members in any way.

But I also agree with ForeignExchange that the networks have very different

Hi Adam - Thanks for the good post! We have found ...

2009-06-04T10:44:22.856-07:00

Hi Adam - Thanks for the good post! We have found that LinkedIn beats Facebook by a wide margin when it comes to bringing traffic to our blog.

I am not sure about Jlibbey's comment regarding higher-quality connections being formed on LinkedIn. It's seems that the connections are

The quality of connections seems to be much higher...

2009-06-04T10:09:53.392-07:00

The quality of connections seems to be much higher on LinkedIn than Facebook. What you say about people on Facebook connecting to family and friends vs. colleagues has been true in my experience.