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Live Blog: How to Make Collaboration Cook

Paul Gillin

At BASF Chemical, a $100 million European chemical supplier with 109,000 employees, the goals were three fold: Encourage networking, share knowledge and improve collaboration across the far-flung organization, said Dr. CheeChin Liew (right, @twiliew ), Enterprise Community Manager. The start with knowing what you want to accomplish.

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The Other Social Network

Paul Gillin

For business pros in industries like communications, manufacturing, retailing, financial services and even construction, LinkedIn groups are becoming vertical social networks in their own right. There’s very little waste because members are there to seek professional opportunities, ask and answer questions and network with their peers.