Thanks Peter and everyone for your thoughts.  I would prefer to not primarily use LinkedIn as a rolodex - that seems just too static to me.  I am hoping I can find a way to make it collaborative, like this listserv (which I don't know what I would have done without all these years!) and like Twitter (thanks to Jesse who got me started, and I am now hopelessly addicted!).

I find Twitter (and perhaps others might see Facebook or other social networking sites in a similar vein) to be the next gen of listservs.  It certainly is fancier to look at, but I tend to use it in a similar way - for individual personal and professional development.  The cool thing about Twitter is that my "group" does not consist only of folks associated with RIM.  Lots (and I mean LOTS) of the people I "follow" on Twitter are lawyers or others working in my particular industry.  Many others are marginally related to RIM - KM folks, IT folks, etc. and some are just cool people that I find interesting on a personal level.  I get a broad range of access to really smart people (who's comments may not be RIM related but may give me a good idea or a new spin on a RIM issue I'm struggling with).

That broad range is also a downfall in that if I have a RIM related question, not many folks in my Twitterverse will have substantive comment (which is why I don't plan to leave this list any time soon!).  Another limitation of Twitter is that you are limited to only 140 characters per post (and brevity has never been one of my strong suits), so the info stream is a bit choppier than this list.  I do, however, get an average of 10-20 great links to blogs and articles everyday on Twitter that I find to be useful both personally and professionally.

Anyway, so that's my issue with LinkedIn.  I think LinkedIn *should* work like Twitter, Facebook, etc., but I just haven't seen nor experienced that level of interaction and collaboration there.  I imagine if I spent some time there I could figure out how to squeeze more juice out of it, and perhaps that is what I will endeavor to do.

Julie

Julie J. Colgan

(ps - if you want to give Twitter a try, feel free to follow me at http://twitter.com/juliecolgan ... I promise you'll find some really interesting people there, like Shaq and MC Hammer!  No joke!)


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