Sleuth the competition on LinkedIn
HR departments dispair! I’ve always thought of LinkedIn as a great place to run competitive intelligence. With a little effort, you can put together a decent org chart of any given company, complete with names, departments, and job responsibilities. Now the folks at LinkedIn are rolling out Company Profiles and, essentially, mining their vast social network database to reveal intra-company networks for you. Particularly interesting for a bit of corporate spying are the lists of “New Hires” and “Recent Promotions and Changes”.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 @ 9:42 am