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Web 2.0 Business Strategy: Comparing Facebook and MySpace Expansion Strategy

Startling Web 2.0 strategy and tactics: comparing MySpace and Facebook approaches to globalization and drawing lessons for executives: the power of crowdsourcing [...]

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Videocast Session One: The Web 2.0 Ecosystem

The Web 2.0 Ecosystem videocast shows how social networks will disrupt business by changing the economics of building relationships. Learn how LinkedIn can serve as an executive gateway to the Web 2.0 world. [...]

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How LinkedIn Changes the Economics of Cross-border Relationships

Summary of how LinkedIn will transform the economics of cross-border deal making.. and opportunities and threats for professionals [...]

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2009 Vision & Strategy Papers Just Published

Take advantage of breaking Web 2.0 trends to manage risk and enhance rewards in 2009

2008_predct2008 was a momentous year punctuated by rising economic uncertainty, Web 2.0 innovation in politics and increasing opportunity to create uncommon advantage in many industries. How much can volatility increase? We are on a merry-go-round that’s accelerating; it’s giddy and scary, depending on one’s point of view.

To celebrate and help you to seize the day, I have spent the past week on three articles that represent some of my most important writing of the year:

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Alumni 2.0: Employer-Employee Realignment

Alumni 2.0 is a key component of transitioning to a new employment paradigm by using online social networks like LinkedIn; this post outlines some of its key concepts [...]

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Tight versus Loose Network Strategies

Think about strategy and goals before building a LinkedIn network: here I outline benefits of LION and more traditional strategies [...]

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How Social Networks Change the Rules of Business Development and Profit

How you can use LinkedIn to maximize the number of clients in your portfolio that map to your firm’s unique selling proposition—boosting profitability [...]

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Managing Multiple Personalities Online

advice.pngThis weekend I’ve been having fun trying LinkedIn’s new group discussion functionality, and it’s really promising and seems to work well, significantly increasing the value of LinkedIn Groups.

In Tweeple, LinkedIn’s Twitter group, someone asked a great question about whether to have multiple accounts on Twitter, but the questions applies equally to any Web 2.0 venue, like LinkedIn. This has also come up in the Executive’s Guide to LinkedIn seminars, whether to risk putting your side real estate business in your LinkedIn Profile, for example. Here are some quick reflections on managing many sides of yourself online.
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Leveraging Web 2.0 to Keep Connected with Your Network

advice.pngExecutives of a certain, er, level of experience face an apparent dilemma when they consider using LinkedIn and other Web 2.0 tools: they already have well-developed networks and non-Web 2.0 processes for managing them. Why should they use LinkedIn or other Web 2.0 tools? Aren’t connections best maintained by high value face-to-face lunches, meetings or phone calls?

The answer is, increasingly, “Yes and no.” I encourage you to consider these tools to supplement your current communications with your network. You will maintain a stronger network if you can communicate specific, relevant information about what you are doing, and these tools can help. Here we will delve into some key Web 2.0 tools’ unique value for enhancing the value of networks by keeping in touch better.
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Social Media Survey: Reflections

reflection.pngThe Social Media Club recently asked “social media evangelists” to share their experiences of life in the trenches, helping people to understand the promise and peril of social media, which is highly connected to social networking and Web 2.0. I thought their survey was very well done, so here I am reprinting my answers, and I’m asking you to weigh in with your observations and experiences, too.
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