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.

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