Wednesday, October 29, 2008

New LinkedIn App, Company Buzz , Fails its First Launch

If you're a believer in the saying "Image is everything", you know the potential damage that awaits your company if a bad reputation develops within online communities, incuding social networks. We've offered advice to manage and improve your online reputation, but keeping tabs on twitter,blogs and social networks can become an overwhelming task.

LinkedIn recognized the growing need and developed CompanyBuzz for help , but there's only one problem: it's not working. After I added Company Buzz, I saw this:
 

 

 

 

 

 

Once Company Buzz returns to a functional status, LinkedIn users will be able to read the latest  comments made about their company on Twitter. (I wonder if Linkedin will like the chatter regarding CompanyBuzz.)

You'll also get to store comments historical charts, if you want to refer to older quotes. Another feature, Trends, lets you analyze the most common words associated with your company. Once the kinds are worked out, this could prove to be a solid addition to the career-connecting network.

By Matt O'Hern at 04:40 PM | Comments (4)

(4) Thoughts on New LinkedIn App, Company Buzz , Fails its First Launch

Nope, didn't work for me either.

I am actually very curious as to how this is going to work when it does though. LinkedIn has added company groups, but it associates with me a company called "Entel", which is only part of the name (and a fairly common part) of one of those I work for. It doesn't even acknowledge WeCanDo.BIZ, even though I state it as a current position.

So I am guessing that even when Company Buzz does work, it will be reporting on a company I don't work for, and none of those I do...

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

Comments by Ian Hendry : Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 04:43 AM

Seems like an incredible application, it's a shame it crashed. Not quite sure why you'd want to have it on your LinkedIN profile; but its a good tool none the less.

Comments by @ZaggedEdge : Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 02:39 PM

Thats such ashame. I was interested in using it. Has it started working yet?

Comments by Ashley : Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 10:47 AM

It was working for awhile but stoped working 20 days ago. No updates.

Comments by Mike Cohn : Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 04:46 PM

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