Comments on: Personal spam or great research tool?

By: Learnlets » Social Nutworking

Learnlets » Social Nutworking — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:15:53 +0000

[...] cases, that I should). And I haven’t really tried taking advantage of LinkedIn, like asking questions. On FaceBook I’ve been more open and experimental, but with no real payoff. And [...]

By: Dave Ferguson

Dave Ferguson — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:43:49 +0000

I was thinking about this sort of thing, in part because I don’t yet find any value in Twitter. I suspect it’s because my current network is too small. And, just the other day, I saw a tweet from someone complaining that he had 1,000 followers. So it’s clear a network can be too large to be useful — like the folks who plow the exhibit aisles at real-life conferences, hoovering up every brochure and freebie.

(I didn’t see Jay as complaining about Clark, more as musing on where these questions could lead. )

By: Rex Davenport

Rex Davenport — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:52:23 +0000

Jay:
LinkedIn queries have become spam. Too bad, really. I ignore them with the same zeal I apply to refinance offers and online pharmacies.

By: Jay Cross

Jay Cross — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:00:12 +0000

Clark, you didn’t spam me. Nor did Lisa. Nor, I hope, did I when I followed your lead.

What I fear is a future when questions fly so fast and furious that they become more net cacophony.

I’m more sensitive than most. I haven’t visited my Facebook account in a long time. Like Bill, I’ve got plenty to do without responding to being poked.

By: BillTheEditor

BillTheEditor — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:24:20 +0000

Jay, I think Clark and Lisa are just using technology in order to be more productive. Mining data from their links, as it were.

I, in order to be more productive, ignore 99% of the questions that come to me through LinkedIn, secure in the knowledge that inquirers (who have hundreds or thousands of LinkedIn connections) will never notice that I didn’t answer.

Having shared this with you, I am now going to go back to being productive.

By: Clark Aldrich

Clark Aldrich — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:41:12 +0000

Sorry, Jay. Didn’t mean to spam to you! Just as a word of process, I sent “push” email to about 100 of my contacts that I personally selected. It was the first time I used that feature, and I am not sure if I will again. Having said that, I do ask questions of listservs, but again, people sign up for those.