1। Quick access to knowledge, know-how and "know-who." In their profiles, people can list skills, expertise and experience, as well as previous employers and people they know. As with LinkedIn, this helps simplify the job of locating people with the knowledge they need. "It's a way of leapfrogging quickly through several degrees of separation to find out who knows something on a topic that's of importance to you," Shuen says. . And in turn, if they discover something cool, they want to spread the word. "This sense of benchmarking against others in social networking is different from anything we've seen before," Shuen says.
The new employee connection: Social networking behind the firewall
