Adam R. Kahn serves as Group Event Director, Project Summit & BusinessAnalystWorld, as well as Publisher of BA Times for Diversified Business Communications (DBC). A graduate of Northeastern University (M.S., 1996) and Hofstra University (B.A., 1993) Mr. Kahn joined DBC in 2006. Over his career he has spent the past 11 years working in event, conference and publishing management capacities at IIR, IMARK Communications and Key3Media (formerly ZD Events) managing a variety of industry specific brands/products including: ProjectWorld, Symposium on Healthcare Design, Projects@Work, Linux Business Expo, ASP Summit, COMDEX, Networld+Interop. Prior to his event and conference experience, Mr. Kahn worked in Student Affairs managing student activities, residential life, judicial affairs, and career services at several New England based Universities and Colleges. 
The national media has been spending a lot of time talking about Twitter and other social networking sites. I guess when famous faces like Shaq and Britney Spears start tweeting, it's bound to get attention. We're proud of the community we've developed on BA Times and we want to continue to provide options for you to connect to our online community. As such, you may have recently seen and even participated in our poll regarding Social Networking.
Here are the BA Times Poll Results:
Social Media Website % of Use
Facebook 30%
LinkedIn 42%
MySpace 4%
Twitter 15%
We'd like to add BA Times visibility on the Social Media sites you frequent. However. we really want to understand how you use these sites on a professional level. Therefore, this blog isn't about offering my opinion on the value of Social Media/Networking, but, rather, asking you, our valued subscribers, how you value and use these sites?
I'd love to get some comments from this blog and start a dialogue among our community to really analyze how you use these sites. With that input we can continue to support your needs in the most efficient and meaningful manner possible.
I look forward to your feedback and will share your comments in future blogs. I'll also be asking for your further input to make sure we cover all the areas that you might find interesting and important in your career.
Best Regards.
Adam R. Kahn
Publisher, BA Times
© Illustration Copyright 2009 Walt Handelsman, Newsday
written by Steve Partridge, April 21, 2009
The numbers as posted are interesting on their own but aside from Twitter crushing the MySpace, the numbers are not surprising.
Now correlate these number with geographic location and age and I think they become more interesting, and if all things are equal the numbers are eye opening and contradict similar studies. http://technomarketer.typepad....-face.html
Given the MySpace numbers compared to FaceBook, my guess is the responses came mostly from Canadians since we tend to favor FaceBook over MySpace. And on a bigger limb I would say the dominant age group for responses was 25-35. I would love to be proven wrong!
-
- +0
-
-
written by Suzi Barnes, April 21, 2009
-
- +0
-
-
written by Mirela Pirlea, April 21, 2009
It will be interesting to define the strategy of joining LinkedIn: Why Ba Times wants to join a professional social network ? What do you want to offer to the BA community ? (professional developpement information, tools, a place where BA and recruters can meet etc.) Which category of BA do you want to link with ? Do you target BA in USA / North America / the whole world etc. From my point of you it is important that you do this thinking before you put your offer on LinkedIn.
Yes the are other BA groups on LinkedIn but they just offer a communication plateform for BAs. BA Times can bring more : an interactive link between BA Times and BA community.
-
- +0
-
-
written by Abbas Hayat, April 22, 2009
-
- +0
-
-
written by Jonathan Malkin, April 23, 2009
-
- +1
-
-
written by Audra Head, August 05, 2009
-
- +0
-
-
On LinkedIn, there may be some value in networking with other BAs, but there are other groups that do the same thing. (On Facebook, I'm less interested in mixing business and pleasure, and would be less inclined to join.)
The question to ask is "what's the value proposition of another access channel?" Personally, I come to BA Times for the articles. I don't need another two or three channels through which to access those articles. Hope that's helpful.