Does Online Social Networking Produce Value for Business?

Interesting survey.

Platforms like Ecademy (UK), Ryze and LinkedIn (USA), openBC (Germany), viaduc (Francophone), eConozco (Spanish) or academici.ac (academia) have attracted millions of members spending varying amounts of time and effort in online social networking.

The question arising out of billions of hours spend online are:
- What kind of business people are using online social networking?
- Why are they spending time networking online?
- Do participants derive an economic benefit?

Let’s find out! http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=204054

Would you please share your expectations and experience in an online questionnaire which takes approx. 6 minutes to complete. The questionnaire is anonymous and does not require experience in online social networking. http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=204054

As an option, you can provide your email address to receive a summary of the results in a few months time. This survey is for my dissertation paper at the University of Liverpool.

Thank you for your help and interest.

Klaas Brumann
k.brumann[at]Liverpool.ac.uk
Skype kbrumann

I will post the results when they become available.

Comments

[dean hua]

Hendrik,
I have a tough time trying to find your email address on this blog. I'd like to know if you want to exchange reciprocal links with each other. My blog is about offlin e networking and yours is about online networking.

dean

[Naina Redhu]

Dear Hendrik,

Great to see a first of its kind survey regarding online business networking on your blog! I recently started blogging and have already linked to your blog from mine. I also put a link to the survey from my blog - the post is here - http://biznetworking.blogspot.com/2005/06/business-networking-survey.html

Would be great to stay in touch! Do feel free to write in directly on my e-mail!

Best Regards,
Naina