LinkedIn is like Facebook for professionals. For overall exposure, a
Facebook presence is good. For anything work-wise LinkedIn is better. I
think most people there, like me, use it for work related networking.
Those who have a Facebook presence I think use it for more casual,
interpersonal things. If anyone in our space has only one of these, it
would more likely be LinkedIn I think. (01)
For example, before I presented at the Ontolog Forum last night, I
posted a short link saying that I was presenting, and why, and a
shortened URL, onto LinkedIn. I did a similar posting on Plaxo. I also
put a short tweet on Twitter, with less info. I did nothing on Facebook
but if I did it would have been "I have a presentation this evening" or
even "nervous about a presentation this evening", or a "That went well"
afterwards. I did post a "That went well" type of message on Twitter,
but that only confused people who did not see the original tweet. I'm
probably a bit of a naive user on all these things, but that might give
some idea of the sorts of ways people approach them, though everyone
does things differently. (02)
As for the Facebook groups, I have joined several but don't really look
at them. Most of the chatter goes on in what they call "status" but is
really a root message for a conversation, and is very interpersonal in
nature. Groups mainly contain one-to-many messages from the organisers,
with very little chat, so it is primarily a good medium for linking
people to other places, which is what you want I think. It is
interesting to notice how the semantics of FB features differs from the
intended semantics, as people use it in more and different ways. (03)
Mike (04)
Peter Yim wrote:
> Thank you, Doug. Point well taken.
>
> Charley and I were discussing this too, and he specifically intended
> for this (Facebook presence) to be more of a "funnel" to provide us
> exposure, rather than another "workspace" or "work environment" that
> we want to delve into. I think he has a point. If exposure is our
> principal purpose, we could (should?) even try doing on more just just
> Facebook.
>
> I should also take the opportunity to recognize the fact that back in
> April 2007, Ed Dodds did point out to me (offline) that there were
> already over 150 Ontolog members on LinkedIn (I have to admire his
> data-mining skills!) and suggested we take advantage of the "Linkedin
> for Groups" feature that creates some sort of affinity group among
> members of this community. ... Regretfully, I did not take him on
> then, nor put it up for discussion.
>
> ... I guess, this is as good a time as any.
>
> Thought, comments, ... anyone?
>
> Best regards. =ppy
> --
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Doug McDavid <dougmcdavid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I made the point to Peter that LinkedIn might be a more professional place
>to host this
>> than Facebook. This is from a perspective of enthusiasm for setting up this
>kind of
>> network, and to derive maximum benefit from the good efforts going on.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Doug McDavid
>> --
>>
>> Doug McDavid
>> dougmcdavid@xxxxxxxxx
>> 916-549-4600
>>
>
>
>
>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:56 PM, White, Charles P (172G)
><charles.p.white@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you have a Facebook account? If not, that’s ok, but there are many
>millions of
>>> people joining Facebook from around the world. Peter and I would like to
>announce
>>> the official Ontolog-Facebook Group (Ontolog-FB). The purpose of this group
>is
>>> simply to make first contact with people searching for Ontology or Semantic
>web
>>> keywords in Facebook. Although there is a discussion board capability in
>the
>>> group, the main venue for discussion shall continue to be [ontolog-forum]
>and
>>> other project mailing lists and our other community forums
>>>
>>> If you have a facebook account, please feel free to join the Ontolog group.
>>>
>>> Link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=184463208664&ref=mf
>>>
>>> My Account: http://www.facebook.com/Jet.Burns?ref=name
>>>
>>> By the way: The photograph is from my vacation to Alaska's Hubbard Glacier,
>>> and I chose this photo because of the relationships I see in the ice, color,
>>> movement, rock, sky and sea. Not only that, but I own the image so that
>>> takes care of the legal stuff. :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> V/r Charles
>>>
>>>
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