Sen Barack Omaba is only 3 degrees way from you on LinkedIn

As if created to fulfill Malcolm’s The Tipping Point, LinkedIn has become the clear leader of Social Networking for Grownups. Within a user’s LinkedIN network it’s easy to pick out the mavens, connectors and salespeople among your colleagues acting just as Malcolm described in his best selling book. But now, LinkedIN itself has reached it own tipping point with the surprise appearance of Presidential candidate Barack Obama on the network. His is the featured question today on LinkedIn. It’s a nice venue for a Presidential candidate, especially within my network of knowledge worker connections. This is why LinkedIn is so hot right now. It’s social business networking done right. No themed profile pages, no glitter, just “bidness”. I only add business partners and past coworkers to my network. For me, LinkedIN acts as both a auto-updating telephone book and increasingly a place to connect with people for software projects and referrals. One of the “Connectors” on my network is Marcus Ronaldi, he is a man I could spend a year blogging about but let’s just say he knows the people. He knows the people that know the people. It was no surprise that he turned out to be my link to the presidential hopeful. LinkedIN, you’ve tipped.