Article: Why you'll finally use LinkedIn

This article is a quick read and gives you the reporter's and LinkedIn's CEO perspective on the site. For example:

Linkedin, by contrast, is a sort of high-end consensual database of colleagues. In some ways it aims to turn the entire planet's workforce into one big set of colleagues, who only come to know one another when one can solve a problem for the other. You can look for that job or find that consultant or employee, because Linkedin's member data is essentially open for all to see, and because the site offers search tools to help you slice and dice it. (They are much more sophisticated and useful if you're a paying member.)

BTW an updated version of LinkedIn is in the works that will make it more of a portal that you use daily.

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