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On Stop Stealing My Blog Posts!

Great post! Pardon me while I go and copy it to my site...

On 5 Cool Content Curation Tools for Social Marketers

I will be looking into Zemanta and Keeeb as well.

On Google+: Your New Favorite Social Network?

Thanks Don!

On Google+: Your New Favorite Social Network?

Thanks Stephen!

On Can Google+ Save Discussion Forums?

You make a good point, Stephen, and one that I debated including in the post. It's possible that spam levels are lower simply because the communities are newer. And I'm sure there's some truth to that. We'll see how these communities look a yeaar from now... if they're still the place to go for real discussions, or if they've been overrun.

Thanks for reading!

On What's Up with LinkedIn?

Great points Mark!

On The Secret Benefit of LinkedIn Endorsements

Thanks Sergey!

On The Secret Benefit of LinkedIn Endorsements

Thanks Kent!

On The Secret Benefit of LinkedIn Endorsements

Thanks Flyn!

On The Secret Benefit of LinkedIn Endorsements

Thanks Ed!

On What's Up with LinkedIn?

LinkedIn might argue that while those kinds of features and functions have their uses, the primary purpose of LinkedIn is provide a platform for professionals to network. And I would have to agree with them in that these features do not support that purpose.

LinkedIn has recently revamped Jobs, which was needed, and I've also noticed some developing business purposes and benefits to Endorsements, so it's not all doom and gloom over at LI. And they promise more features and benefits are coming, so we'll see.

Thanks for reading!

On What's Up with LinkedIn?

Thanks Chris! You're right, I know countless users mindlessly click the Endorse button and assign whatever skills LinkedIn recommends.