Professional Network Service

A Professional Network Service is a service that can solve a professional networking task.

• AKA: Online Professional Network, Professional Networking System.
• Context:
  • It can manage a Professional Network Dataset.
• Example(s):
  • LinkedIn Service.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Social Network Service.
  • a Online Dating Service.
• See: Social Network Service, Social Network Analysis Task, Collaboration System.

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References

2016

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_network_service
  • QUOTE: A professional network service (or, in an Internet context, simply professional network) is a type of social network service that is focused solely on interactions and relationships of a business nature rather than including personal, nonbusiness interactions.

Notable examples include LinkedIn, Viadeo, XING, Ownmirror, Open Science Lab, Wisestep.com, C-Profs.com, and Hall.com.

A professional network service is used by business individuals to establish and maintain professional contacts and a way to either find work or get ahead in career as well as gain resources and opportunities for networking. According to LinkedIn managing director Clifford Rosenberg in an interview by AAP in 2010, "[t]his is really a call to action for professionals to re-address their use of social networks and begin to reap as many rewards from networking professionally as they do personally." Businesses mostly depend on resources and information outside company and in order to get what they need, they need to reach out and professionally network to others, such as employees or clients as well as potential opportunities.

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