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Using Linkedin Answers
I want to put in a plug for the new Linkedin Answers service. Answers works by allowing you to pose questions to your network. Hopefully someone in your network has the answer to your question. I used the service last night. At about 10 pm I asked my network if anyone knows who American Expresses ad agency is. Then I went to bed. By 8 am this morning I had three replies. Two of the three responses provided the answer I was looking for. Cool - someone else figured it out for me while I slept!
I’ve also been playing with Yahoo! Answers lately. It’s a great service. In the last six months Yahoo has had over 80 million people use the service. That tells me that search engines aren’t providing all the information we need. I certainly found it much more efficient to just ask my network who the agency is instead of spending a bunch of time sifting through search engine results.
It looks like user generated Q&A has legs!
Chris,
Left by David on 02/07/2007Interesting. Since I thought I was in your network but did not see this request, I logged in this morning and found your request. So my question is… are people always “in” LinkedIn’s site and thus saw the question or have they set up some kind of notification system? I go into the LinkedIn site only rarely so if I hadn’t seen your post, I am not sure when I would have seen your question (though I would not have been one to have answered the question if I did)…
Chris,
Left by Geoff Osmond on 02/07/2007I have wanted to know the name of the ad agency for American Express for quite some time. Can you share with me that precious information? If you have the contact as well that would be great.
Geoff:
Look for my email.
Thanks,
Chris
Left by Chris Knudsen on 02/07/2007