LinkedIn is considering building a social networking tool for the workplace, along the lines of Yammer and similar tools, CEO Jeff Weiner said in the company’s first earnings call earlier today.
If it does so, LinkedIn will be competing with dozens of other companies, including IBM, Jive, Microsoft (which has some social networking capabilities built into SharePoint), Socialtext TIBCO and VMware (which recently acquired SocialCast). And as we’ve mentioned, some see Google Plus eventually being a workplace tool as part of Google Apps.
With so many options already on the market, are you interested in the idea of using LinkedIn as an internal social network?
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