LinkedIn

Brandon Unger                                                                                                 4/6/11

Critical Review Of LinkedIn

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/01/ten_ways_to_use.html#axzz1IkG3rYfE

If you are not familiar with LinkedIn or you don’t know how or why to use it, then this is the post for you. LinkedIn in is the Facebook for business and business people.  LinkedIn allows you to connect with your work friends, old colleagues and you can see where they work and where they have been.
LinkedIn is your online Resume or C.V which showcases your abilities and recommendations.

You can connect with your old uni friends and find out where they have worked and where they are now. This can be a great tool if you are a sales person and want to approach a company but don’t know where to start. You would be surprised how many people are connected, currently 20 million people are on LinkedIn and one person signs up every second, and how many people know each other.

By adding connections, you increase the likelihood that people will see your profile first when they’re searching for someone to hire or do business with. In addition to appearing at the top of search results (which is a major plus if you’re one of the 52,000 product managers on LinkedIn), people would much rather work with people who their friends know and trust.

Facebook

Brandon Unger                                                                                                 4/4/11

Critical Analysis of Facebook

            In today’s world people rarely use “old school” methods of communication such as writing letters. We now mainly use e-mail and social networks to get in touch with the people we want to talk to. A main network now a days is facebook. Facebook is a place for people to share what’s going on in their lives and also learn more about their friend’s lives.

            A major advantage to the facebook thing is the whole social aspect of it. Facebook lets you connect with your friends and though that you meet your friend’s friends and the list goes on and on. One of the only bad things that come out of this aspect of facebook could be the fact that you could come into contact with people you don’t want to see or hear from, for what ever reason you have to justify that.

            Facebook is also a great spot to share personal news and also real new like fox news. Since so many millions of people use this network someone is bound to see it and then share it with their friends and after a while thousands of people will see it. They can post it on their walls and all there friend will be able to see it. A negative thing that could come out of this is that is you don’t want something being shared so widely it might happen cause of the popular use of facebook.

            Another great thing about face book is that if you own or operate a business you can use facebook as a great tool to get your ideas around. You can create a private group with just you and your employees, and use it to get your ideas around the office and not make it open to the public because it’s contained within the group.