"LinkedIn Answers" Unlocks the World's Best Source of Business Knowledge: Trusted Professionals.LinkedIn LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site, mainly used for professional networking. As of October 2007, it had more than 15 million registered users, spanning 150 industries and more than 400 economic regions (as classified by the service). Launches First-of-Its-Kind Service to Give and Receive Expert Business Advice PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- LinkedIn, the world's premiere business network, today launched LinkedIn Answers Linkedin Answers is a knowledge market service by Linkedin. It is somewhat similar to 3form Free Knowledge Exchange, Naver Knowledge iN, Yahoo! Answers, and . However, three things make Linkedin Answers notable: its user base, its use of the network topology, and its ’suggest an (www.linkedin.com/answers), a first-of-its-kind answers service that leverages the power of the user's trusted professional network to receive business-related advice. LinkedIn Answers allows members to ask their business-related questions, and receive answers from their personal networks and the hundreds of thousands of experts in the LinkedIn network as a whole. The service gives the site's nine million users a quick and reliable way to get industry specific answers to business questions and to build upon their professional reputation by responding to questions relevant to their expertise. "Asking people you know for business advice is the most common use of your professional network," said Keith Keith may refer to: People with the given name Keith:
The professional context of LinkedIn Answers encourages high quality, focused business content. Questions and answers are tied to professional profiles and the relationships between askers and experts, rather than anonymous usernames on other answer networks, enabling more credible responses. Questions can be targeted to specific members of one's network, as well as opening it up to the entire LinkedIn network of more than nine million professionals from around the world, representing 130 industries. The service is free and currently allows users to ask ten questions a month. By providing information seekers with valuable content, industry experts benefit from responding to business-related questions with quality answers. Experts receive expertise credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. for every best answer they provide - this becomes part of their LinkedIn profile, informing other users that they are a proven expert on that topic. For those consistently able to provide expert answers, LinkedIn will promote their expertise to other users, providing an opportunity for consultants, contractors and other service provider to build social capital and market their services to professionals whose questions they answer. About LinkedIn LinkedIn takes your personal business network online, giving you access to people, jobs and opportunities like never before. Built upon trusted connections and relationships, LinkedIn has established the world's largest and most powerful business network. There are currently over nine million professionals on LinkedIn, representing all five hundred of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as a wide range of household names History Formation (1998-2000) Household Names have been together since 1998, with various members rotating throughout the line-up with singer, Jason Garcia, until it was solidified in the summer of 2000 with bassist/keyboardist, Chris Peters, and drummer, C. J. in technology, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , media, consumer packaged goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one , entertainment, fashion, and numerous other industries. LinkedIn has over four million members in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , more than three million in Europe, and a million-plus in Asia. |
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