LinkedIn to make some big changes
This is great - LinkedIn will limit your personal network to three degrees (see here - thanks Konstantin)! So no more introductions between people that are trying to network 4 degrees, where you do not know the person requesting contact nor the recipient. This is a major improvement.
I also liked the InMail option - whereby you will be able to reach people who are more than 3 degrees away by emailing them directly through the system. The recipient can accept the contact and reveal his/her contact information or reject it. The best part of this option is that the recipient will be able to see how many requests from the sender have been rejected by others.
The question is - how much will it cost?
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August 5th, 2005 at 9:16 pm
Hi François and others !
the answer to your question is :
*150 $/year*
or
*500 $/year* depending on the nb of inmail and introductions you want to do monthly.
see details here:https://www.linkedin.com/subscription?displaySignup=&planType=2
/what do you think ?/
send me an email if yyou are welcome to send me an email if you want to join soflow (mostly media and internet networking platform)
or openbc (european networking platform).
thank you for your attention and best regards,
Yann Mauchamp
August 6th, 2005 at 7:35 am
No thanks - I am very happy with LinkedIn and in fact, it may be worth the money for me. Their total user base and profiles are probably larger and more targeted for my use than yours.
And for now I am happy to limit myself to my network - and that is still free.
Oh…one more reason why I would never switch…the nice folks of LinkedIn do not come in and spam my blog while not fully disclosing who they are! The next time you leave a message like this you may preface it with the fact that you are in fact the GM of openbc for France. That is common blogging behavior in the networks I hang out with…
salut…
August 17th, 2005 at 11:56 am
For the first time I have asked a Linked In connection and endorsement to get removed
Disclosure: I am a LinkedIn business angel but my post would be exactly the same if I wasn’t. If you are interested in blog and online reputation transparency, this post should be of interest… -sometimes in 2004, I get
August 18th, 2005 at 7:39 am
Hi François,
a short comment to clarify my previous post:
I did not ask you François or anyone else to switch from the business networking site you favor today, nor spammed you a way or another and will never act liked this.
What I did :
-> I replied to your questions regarding the pricing structure of your favorite business networking site (as no answer came during 15 days)
-> I invited you to send me an email if you were interested in joining other networking platforms I daily use (as a user, not as a Country Manager)
Why I did not do use a preface or disclosure for once:
-> my comment was factual and personal, not corporate in any way
-> I realise NOW that the link I signed my comment with was broken, I am sorry for the « mislinking »
-> you can see my profile in my signature today (please modify the previous one), hope it helps.
Fromm y perspective, this posts are raising an interesting question regarding « blogs and business networking platforms continuum » :
? you, me, millions of people use business networking platforms to better know eachothers (what they did, what they do, who they are, who they know, what they like/dislike, think,…), one click is enough to understand who’s doing what.
? given the existence of that tools, why adding disclaimers, diclosures, preface to posts and comments and to which extent - especially as you, like me have many interests (at the personal or professional levels).
Thank you and best regards,
Yann Mauchamp
https://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=46594
PS :feel free to contact me directly next time I send you a broken link…and let’s skype one day on another (I just sent you an…invitation to).
August 18th, 2005 at 2:49 pm
Yann> I think that your assumption that it is OK not to disclose your affilitions/potential conflicts/etc. when posting or commenting is misplaced. You can’t expect readers to check your background, linkedin profile or blog when going through a posting you have made. They just don’t have the time (I browse through thousands of posts a day, how could I).
Disclosure is a voluntary act of transparency, made in relevance to the context of the post. In some cases, it is important to disclose a potential conflict, in others, you might want to disclose that you are not conflicted.
My two cents. It is actually an interesting point that I am going to post about.
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