One company that is taking advantage of social networking already is j4b, a UK web-based service that provides small businesses across Europe with information about grants and other funding ...

Internal social networks can (and must) be the answer This is a bleak perspective on the digital workplace and internal social networks. But they can actually work. In fact, if companies want to ...

5.Niche Networks: No B2B social strategy is complete without taking stock of the niche networks that dominate a space. It’s potentially hard to weigh the impact; networks tend to be smaller, but ...

Image via CrunchBase Karl Moore and Peter Neely To date, companies have embraced social networks by setting up Facebook and LinkedIn pages. Many view these as an extension of their current ...

The main professional uses for social networks are communicating with colleagues (68 percent), sharing/reviewing documents (50 percent) and communicating with customers/clients (47 percent).

Web 2.0 really is going behind the corporate firewall, where companies like Sabre Holdings, Hilton Hotels and IBM are building social networks for their employees and customers. The key to their ...

Here's a look at 10 social networks for professionals that offer a variety of features such as Facebook integration, career advice, resume critiques and more. 1. BranchOut ...

Mozilla, Meta, Medium, Flipboard, Tumblr, and so many other companies are betting that the future of social networks looks more like email than it does Elon Musk’s Twitter. And they’re betting ...

In constructing my social graph (i.e., my network of connections), I build relationships at three sites: LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. In some cases, I have connections with people on all three ...

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 30, 2010, Section B, Page 9 of the New York edition with the headline: The Social Network That Gets Down to Business.