LinkedIn, Twitter and other online business communities can play a prominent role in connecting participants with new business opportunities, suppliers and partners that they never would have known existed if not for these social media platforms. Each of these social media platforms can have hundreds of thousands of suppliers, buyers and finance people involved. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Tim Minahan shares some strategies on how you can maximize Linkedin, Twitter and other online business communities for greater business collaboration and growth.
– E-mail stinks for collaboration. No matter how many Outlook folders you create and quirky naming trends you invent to keep document versions straight, you can’t change the facts: E-mail in general (and Outlook, in particular) is a clunky way to manage evolving documents, discussions and intellectual…