DABGO is now represented in 23 US states + states in Canada. See who is a DABGO member in your state by making an advanced search with zip code. Here is a short guide on how to search for a DABGO member. The blue colored states are represented by DABGO members:
If you want to know more about Linkedin, the company’s history and where it’s going, then read this interesting article posted on CNN Money.
“Social networking has been great for the kids, but not of much use to business - until now. With Reid Hoffman’s MySpace-for-grown-ups at a tipping point, these days you’re either LinkedIn or left out.”
“For many, it’s become irresponsible to not invite business associates into your LinkedIn network,” says Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School who specializes in sociology and strategy.
LinkedIn has launched LinkedIn Answers (www.linkedin.com/answers), a first-of-its-kind answers service that leverages the power of the user’s trusted professional network to receive business-related advice. LinkedIn Answers allows members to ask their business-related questions, and receive answers from their personal networks and the hundreds of thousands of experts in the LinkedIn network as a whole. The service gives the site’s 9 million users a quick and reliable way to get industry specific answers to business questions and to build upon their professional reputation by responding to questions relevant to their expertise.
I tried this new service about 2 weeks ago with the questions “Do you know any Danish people in the USA??” and in the context gave a little description of DABGO. This resulted in increased traffic to www.dabgo.com and new members. So it does work, and the answers were positive and informative.
It’s interesting that LinkedIn is launching the new service straight after the closing down of Google Answers due to poor performance.
The US is now Denmark’s 3rd largest export market. Statistics from September 2006 show that the US now accounts for more than USD 11 billion or almost 9% of the total Danish exports. See the complete article at “Eksport til USA“.
Economic Minister Bendt Bendtsen unveiled the government’s plan Thursday for raising the world’s awareness about Denmark.
Marketing Foundation Denmark provided the cornerstone of the strategy, and a total of DKK 412 million (EUR 55.6 million) has been allotted to promote Denmark over the next four years. Read the complete article at denmark.dk
If you want all the details (only available in Danish) then check konservative.dk
35 nations branding value (Country names are written in Danish)
Denmark has the world’s most motivated entrepreneurs. More than 90 per cent of the Danish entrepreneurs are driven by willingness, shows a new international survey.
The international part of the survey Global Monitor Entrepreneurship 2006 was published in London last week is the largest international entrepreneur survey. In the survey researchers from 44 countries ask the population about entrepreneurship activities. Read more at Copenhagen Capicity.
Consider if this survey would have been different, if it had been done prior to the Skype sale to Ebay in Sep. 2005??? The Danes might have a billion good reasons…
* The average number of LinkedIn connections for people who work at Google is forty-seven.
* The average number for Harvard Business School grads is fifty-eight, so you could skip the MBA, work at Google, and probably get most of the connections you need. Later, you can hire Harvard MBAs to prepare your income taxes.
* People with more than twenty connections are thirty-four times more likely to be approached with a job opportunity than people with less than five.
* All 500 of the Fortune 500 are represented in LinkedIn. In fact, 499 of them are represented by director-level and above employees.
Read the 10 Ways to use Linkedin on “How to change the world” a blog by Guy Kawasaki
Never heard of this C-Title, don’t worry it is still taking its first baby steps towards acceptance. But the concept is interesting and worth considering, maybe not as a full-time functions, but as a focus area for the executive officers, to better understand how networking can be used at all levels of the company and to the company’s benefit. Read more about the CNO at thenationalnetworker.com
When looking to join a business networking group, keep in mind that in most cities you’ll have many different options to choose from. You can generally divide the choices into seven different groups, however, which will make your final decisions much easier to make. See the groups here.
