Comments on: Are you LinkedIn?

By: Dave Willie

Dave Willie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:44:14 +0000

I don’t think it’s necessarily accurate to say that “Clearly, the value of any of these sites is determined by the number of people who are registered”, as Linked has a far more blurred boundary between the social and the business in their model for a network platform. One need not be business affiliated to join Linked, whereas with MeettheBoss one does. With MeettheBoss one is vetted prior to accepted membership and one also has to provide information on the business affiliated to. I this respect it is true thar Linkedin enjoys more success in numbers, but MeettheBoss enjoys more focused business-oriented and business driven membership. It is difficult to negotiate a fair comparison, as wikipedia quotes Linked as being “general but mostly for business” whereas MeettheBoss is a designated business network sight.

I have recently written a blog post on this issue of comparing business network sights
http://hubpages.com/hub/web_20-business-networking-sites
check it out and comment. My aim is to generate some discussion on our won conceptualisations of “business networking”, my Masters degree got me interested in cultural understandings of the boundaries between social and work and how we reflect these through our choices of media.

Ahywho, thanks for reading.

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By: careeralley

careeralley — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:12:32 +0000

Lauren,

Thanks for your comments. I briefly covered meettheboss in the post http://careeralley.com/careers/leveraging-social-networks-for-career-management/

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:12:39 +0000

I read about MeettheBoss in the International Herald Tribune business section at the end of last year. They were comparing the site to LinkedIn, they also had a top finance executive who seemed to love Meet the Boss. I think it has become a highly used business tool in the financial community. I think they have something like 30,000 members now of just financial executives. I would like to get on there to see what all the fuss is about. I dont think i’ll the fit the criteria though.

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