What is Microsoft Thinking (comments regarding the acquisition of LinkedIn)?
This week we were told that Microsoft had purchased a popular social network called LinkedIn. LinkedIn does for social media and employment what Facebook has done for families and relationships. It has the potential of transforming the manner in which firms hire new recruits as well as define how employees keep older ones. Interestingly for LinkedIn, was the purchase of lynda.com an online training platform that delivers popular software and design application training across the Internet. This new development for the social media platform was probably an idea as to what it's planners saw in its future. LinkedIn differs from Facebook in that you are probably not going to get too far with your cat images and goofy profile pics. It allows you to test and gauge the skill levels of connections (what Facebook calls friends or what twitter calls followers). It also allows you to keep track of possible future employers as well as increase your level of knowledge in your field of intere