Re: Digital Publishing Network (LinkedIn) is for personal networking, not discussion

Hi all,

LinkedIn, along with Xing.com, are there as business networking tools,
not as community discussion groups. Emphasis here is on business
networking.

On the topic of too many groups;

>> Hiving off splinter groups can only exacerbate this.
I agree.

For some time now I've been wondering why there are so many groups. I
don't believe any of these; ebook-community, epub-community,
digital-text, are so busy that it would hurt to have them combined.
Would we not all benefit from following the discussions within each?

I'm a member of them all – are there many users that are not? Perhaps
some kind of vote may be useful. Jon?


Mike Cook
www.epubbooks.com



--- In [email protected], "Jon Noring" <jon@...> wrote:
>
> I appreciate the replies by Ed, Aaron and Jon Jermey. My announcement
> for the Digital Publishing Network (DPN) at LinkedIn did not clarify
> how DPN differs from this discussion group, The eBook Community.
> 
> DPN is NOT a discussion forum. LinkedIn, which hosts DPN, does not
> even support group discussions as far as I know (if they do, I'm sure
> it is more than useless.)
> 
> Rather, the purpose of DPN is for personal, one-on-one networking with
> others in the digital publishing universe, such as for employment,
> consulting, business ventures, personal interest, etc. It's useful
> for the commercial, non-profit, academic, and government domains
> (which pretty much covers everything under the sun.)
> 
> So, it's like comparing apples and oranges, or maybe apples and
> carrots. DPN and TeBC have their distinctive roles to play in the
> digital publishing ecosystem, and there's very little overlap in their
> respective roles. If anything, they could augment each other --
> something I am now contemplating.
> 
> As the administrator of this discussion community, I always have to
> look ahead and predict how new developments in online social
> networking and communication will impact us.
> 
> With that said, those interested in learning more about DPN are again
> referred to the following links:
> 
>   
<http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07/18/digital-publishing-network-group-started-at-linkedin/>
> 
>   
<http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?groupID=144808&sharedKey=6501B423BA3F>
> 
> 
> Hope to see many of you at DPN!
> 
> Jon Noring
> 
> TeBC Administrator
> DPN co-founder
> 
> (p.s., LinkedIn may at first appear intimidating since it's almost
> like building an online resume'. However, you can start by leaving out
> a lot of info in your profile, and then over time slowly add to it. I
> need to do a major update of my profile, but that hasn't deterred me
> from building my connections now...)
>



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