Comments on: Back to Basics: What is Social Networking? http://blog.linkedin.com/2007/10/09/back-to-basics/ The corporate blog of LinkedIn, the world's largest professional networking site. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:21:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: trish http://blog.linkedin.com/2007/10/09/back-to-basics/#comment-923 trish Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:30:43 +0000 http://wptheme.site/?p=216#comment-923 HELLO JUST WENT TO LINKED IN AND IT SAID LI IS UNAVAILABLE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 27. SINCE IT'S CURRENTLY OCTOBER 11, I'M CONFUSED. WHAT'S THE DEAL? HELLO JUST WENT TO LINKED IN AND IT SAID LI IS UNAVAILABLE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 27. SINCE IT’S CURRENTLY OCTOBER 11, I’M CONFUSED. WHAT’S THE DEAL?

]]> By: Mauro Mello http://blog.linkedin.com/2007/10/09/back-to-basics/#comment-922 Mauro Mello Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:41:22 +0000 http://wptheme.site/?p=216#comment-922 Mario, Common Craft's video made me think again why even a sophisticated social networking platform, like LinkedIn fails to provide us, users, with some very basics metrics of our social networks: > How open/close is my network, compared to the average user's > How many cliques are there in my network, and what are they. How these compare to the average user's network. > What's the rank of my contacts, in terms of: reach providing, redundancy, etc. What are the main "hubs" of my network Lots of these metrics are presented and extensively discussed at S.Wasserman (http://www.amazon.com/Social-Network-Analysis-Applications-Structural/dp/0521382696/ref=sr_1_4/104-7887508-8119133?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192070062&sr=1-4 ) and some very introductory metrics and information can be found at W.Baker (http://www.amazon.com/Social-Network-Analysis-Applications-Structural/dp/0521382696/ref=sr_1_4/104-7887508-8119133?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192070062&sr=1-4) Is it because calculating these metrics, for all users, would require too much processing power? Or is it just considered not interesting information for the users? All the best! Mario,

Common Craft’s video made me think again why even a sophisticated social networking platform, like LinkedIn fails to provide us, users, with some very basics metrics of our social networks:

> How open/close is my network, compared to the average user’s

> How many cliques are there in my network, and what are they. How these compare to the average user’s network.

> What’s the rank of my contacts, in terms of: reach providing, redundancy, etc. What are the main “hubs” of my network

Lots of these metrics are presented and extensively discussed at S.Wasserman (http://www.amazon.com/Social-Network-Analysis-Applications-Structural/dp/0521382696/ref=sr_1_4/104-7887508-8119133?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192070062&sr=1-4 )

and some very introductory metrics and information can be found at W.Baker (http://www.amazon.com/Social-Network-Analysis-Applications-Structural/dp/0521382696/ref=sr_1_4/104-7887508-8119133?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192070062&sr=1-4)

Is it because calculating these metrics, for all users, would require too much processing power? Or is it just considered not interesting information for the users?

All the best!

]]> By: Lee LeFever (Common Craft) http://blog.linkedin.com/2007/10/09/back-to-basics/#comment-921 Lee LeFever (Common Craft) Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:33:28 +0000 http://wptheme.site/?p=216#comment-921 Thanks a bunch for posting the video Mario. When we were making it, I remember thinking about LinkedIn and what you might think of the points we were making. Our was to help people understand why they should care about social networking. I hope it does that. :) Thanks a bunch for posting the video Mario. When we were making it, I remember thinking about LinkedIn and what you might think of the points we were making. Our was to help people understand why they should care about social networking. I hope it does that. :)

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