What types of business insights and discussion tools would you like to see from the CNBC/LinkedIn collaboration?

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While LINKEDIN has been great for connecting to new contacts and reconnecting with colleages or friends we may have lost touch with in our travels, what I keep hearing out here is that more and more online-preneurs, solo-preneurs, entrepreneurs and sales folk want streamlined marketing solutions with their dose of networking activities.

So if CNBC can capture a star or two, on a regular basis, through LI -- that would certainly be a boost to the new partnership and LI users.

Another brainstorming solution could be for the new partnership to hire a sampling of LI users for a idea-jamming session which could follow an 'unconference' format or a traditional 'facilitated' round robin format.

Good luck with the new venture:)

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Clarification added September 4, 2008:

In chatting about this throughout the day - here's what my offline network came up with:
1. Make LINKEDIN/CNBC a daily first-point-of-destination by providing a dashboard that includes:
a) high quality video downloads/embed links on business and news topics
b) a BIG IDEA forum
c) an Evite-like interface (of sorts) to easily and effortlessly invite one's groups and network to events.
d) daily newswire 'pips' (a new slang term for "TOM-Awareness" that we could filter and customize to our major industry.
e) Make room for the newcomer (what we at Network Abundance humbly called: The Next Generation of Masters, a year ago) and make space for a rapidly growing entry point for new talent in topical exchange vs. the Suze Orman CAN I AFFORD IT show where she recently told someone to buy or borrow her book(s) and 'stay away' from financial consultants because they are a rip-off and only want to 'get rich off of people' (so what is she then, if not a 'financial coach who got rich off of viewers/readers? = LOL:) -- (CNBC video link below)...
f) A barometer and voting sector on "expertise" - right now it's a numbers game on LI; is that the intent or just the default/result? Expert answers should be a result of the opinion of the reader, not the originator (if we choose world leaders through the voting process of the majority, why would LI be any different...? one could even "ask oneself", that with the expert ranking system that exists on LI today -- are we ranking experts by their 'lack' of billable hours and excess of 'extra time' or by their true contribution to someone else's honest question -- "it's worth" thinking about:) - PS: One can't be a #1 ranked linked in-expert, by today's standards, and a growing concern, without spending 'geez-gads' extra hours "at work" -- we've tested it "a-lot" lately:)
g) appeal to Gen X *&* Y -- why? Because that's who is using or who you need to have use (for sustainability) your premium services.
h) categorize stuff by Gen: X,Y and Z and figure out what Z is really up to and who they really are and what they're really all about - then move quickly in GEN AA (of which an acronym has already been created, historically, to deal with the fallout, ideals, nonsense and fantasies of Gen T,U, V, W, X, Y and Z ) -- e.g., move forward and create something really cool that adds value to everyone who lives online (and the numbers are growing - exponentially - everyday)...

Fair Share: Quite a cool venue LI has built - and I am certainly an LI fan when it comes to promoting the only network (that we have researched and worked through here) that has truly garnered the respect of people around the world who "use their brain" -- most of the time -- and forgive those who lapse in thinking from 'time to time'... but who have one constant: LI is a very special professional space - online.
Professionals and wanna-bee's gravitate toward LI -- frankly after researching all of them -- we have no clue why anyone would Facebook, Squidoo, MySpace or "Re-do" if they are truly in sync with connecting to the professional people who have truly been a part of their Reality career/life, while searching out (and rather creatively, at times) new connections that make sense at an intellectual and market-worthy level (the combination of 'intellectual' and 'market worthy' is really "darn" close to what "a-lot" of people out there (today) are calling: "spiritual" (with a highly commercial twist that spells: R.E.V.E.N.U.E)
Thinking of your next partnership? Think like NING! We use NING, and while it could be streamlined, it provides extra tech -- a combo of NINg and LI and CNBC and (dare I say?: Google or Yahoo) could be unstoppable -- to be sure:) Take great care... this has been a fun day in the SF Bay Area -- hope you agree... "now get out there today and share the Abundance!"
:)
MJM
{posted w/o edit for syntax and spelling; 'forgiveness' can be a virtue:}

posted September 4, 2008

M. (Monica) B

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