LinkedIn's Profile Bookmarking

According to Read Write Web, LinkedIn is now offering a way for it users to bookmark the profiles in a manageable way while browsing profiles. Users can bookmark important profiles, store them in folders, and add notes about why they've bookmarked the contact. The video below explains this tool.

Twitter accounts for more than one person

Read Write Web mentioned yesterday new new platform that allows more than one person to manage a Twitter account: CoTweet. It's a device that is free for now, and allows multiple persons to access and tweet to one Twitter account. Read the full story here.

Twitter's wide web

Are you still looking for those companies on Twitter who tweet about your industry? Are you looking for your competitors? ReadWriteWeb recently did a great wrap-up of what they consider the top 7 Twitter search engines. Check them out:

monitter
Twitterfall
twistori
Tweet Scan
TweetChannel
Twitscoop
Tweetizen

Hirewall: The digital way to manage the hiring process

Over at Read Write Web, they feature a new software that could help a department simplify the hiring process. The software ensures that the best candidates are seen for the jobs and that they are seen by the right people. By breaking down the hiring process into simple steps, and using email as reminders, this software helps ensure that the right candidates are interviewed for the job.


Hirewall Launch Video from Tim de Jardine on Vimeo.

Sponsored conversations on yoru blog -- a good idea?

In a recent article written at Read Write Web, Marshall Kirkpatrick disagrees with a recent Forrester report that says it's a good thing to engage in conversations on blogs that are sponsored. He states that it isn't that much different from advertising, and that the new industry should not be overrun with this type of advertising yet. For more of his opinions, read the blog post here.

What do you think? Do you write a blog? Will you write about a topic on your blog if a company sponsors it?

Latitute: The Ultimate Mobile Social Networking

Yesterday, Google announced the release Latitude, which is deemed the next step in mobile social networking. Read Write Web is a way to track where your friends are using your mobile phone. Read Write Web then goes on to question if users are going to feel like Google is too much a part of their life, and they already use other social networking sites like Facebook on their phone. What do you think?

Do you trust cloud computing?

Read Write Web recently took a look at how cloud computing is being accepted by the public. As a major buzz word of 2008, there are many people who are not convinced of the power of cloud computing. They're looking at it as one way to back up data, not a cloud that will keep data safe in one spot.

Some said the cloud was trustworthy enough for non-critical data, but not for secure and private communications, such as those used in the enterprise. And still others noted that trusting cloud services was risky, especially given the recent shutdowns of the once-hot services like I Want Sandy, Pownce, Google Notebook, and Jaiku.

Do you use cloud computing on a regular basis? What are your thoughts? Do you keep multiple backups other than your data in the clouds?

Enterprise 2.0 Industry Reports

The Enterprise 2.0 market is expected to reach $4.6 billion by 2013. Other predictions as mentioned in ReadWriteWeb,

-predicts that social networking tools and internal wikis "will have the greatest impact on workplace collaboration"
- expects enterprise microblogs to "become a feature, not a standalone product category"
- enterprise 2.0 apps will fall dramatically in price
- "cultural resistance" to social networks will "eventually break, allowing workers to connect with like-minded colleagues and enabling a collaboration channel that previously didn't exist in the enterprise."

To see all of the expected changes in the enterprise 2.0 market check out the report here.

The current challenges of enterprise 2.0

In a recent article at Read Write Web, they take a look at the current structure of the enterprise and how Web 2.0 components are going to affect the way it runs. The most interesting part to me was the challenges the current enterprise is facing due to their rigid structures and working for decades in the same fashion.

The current challenges according to Bernard Lunn are:

- Demographic time bomb of retiring baby boomers – Now that this generation has mastered the way the enterprise works, they don’t want to change their ways. There will also be decades of lost information if their knowledge isn’t captured before they retire.

- The difficulty of bringing in Gen Y – This generation has grown up with social media, and they don’t want to conform to the rigid power structures that are given by the enterprises.

- Enterprises are all about security, structure and control – With the incoming revolution of social media, we’re seeing two completely different mentalities. As this type of structure hits the enterprise, we’ll see it make waves as the enterprise tries to adjust to this new social concept.

- Figuring out what is core and non-core is hard – With all of the new components moving into the enterprise, when current careers tend to see that most things are done in house.

Did Lunn leave out any of the challenges your company is currently facing?

Gmail versus Outlook

In a recent article at Read Write Web, Bernard Lunn recently made the change from using Microsoft Exchange as an email service provider to Gmail. He noticed two main perks to using this system for business after it took him ten minutes to set it up. Virtually all spam was eliminated from his inbox and the search function proved to be easier. Gmail is also more portable than Microsoft Exchange, as it can be accessed from anywhere at any time. Lunn has decided to make the switch. One thing Lunn did not mention was the chat function in Gmail. Once you’ve emailed someone who has Google, they appear in your contacts list, which shows when they are online. If a group uses Gmail, could it possibly be easier to communicate this way rather than email? If it’s a quick question, it may be easier to G Chat instead of send another email to someone’s inbox.

Have you used Gmail to conduct your business? What are your thoughts?