Robin FERRIERE

For a couple of years now, the web is going ’social’ (idealistic people call it web 2.0). Some understood it well, like the founders of Ziki.com, allowing its users to search for people and more generally to gather their community around their personal space and the resources they want to share. One could say it’s just another player in the social-thing battle? Of course it is and nobody could say they’re promised to a great success… According to the authors, the differencing benefit should be the quality of the engine for searching for people… We’ll see that in the future but everybody could say that Google is still doing it very well.
As every week a new service is online, proposing to empower your community- and social tools, one question remains: in the following months, which site will buy the others? del.icio.us, magnolia, furl, flickr and others don’t compete with Linkedin, Xing or Facebook. The reality is Google is fighting with Yahoo and Microsoft! Don’t misunderstand the battle and the real opponents

LinkedIn is a powerful tool, as acknowleged by so many people around the globe. However, it seems the success of the site can lead to some exagerated… elitism. As an example, I’d like to mention this old story of a busy business man that won’t answer you except you’re registered on LinkedIn, have more than 10 connections and a minimum of 2 recommendations! More info… »

Mea culpa ! Je découvre seulement maintenant le blog de l’un des experts français du business networking : Hervé Bommelaer.
Je ne saurais que vous encourager à aller y faire un tour car ce blog regorge de ressources fort utiles, de points de vue perspicaces (notamment sur les différences culturelles entre la France et nos amis d’Outre-Atlantique), ainsi pour ceux qui souhaitent aller encore plus loin, de liens Amazon vers les ouvrages d’Hervé. 

→ Le blog : http://hervebommelaer.blogspirit.com/