Web Worker Daily

With the global economy still moribund, tools and services that help you find leads and extract more value from your existing business contacts can only be welcome.

LinkedIn has become the online resume repository of choice and helps curate an individual’s professional network, but how to actually make use of those relationships isn’t clear. Currently, LinkedIn simply delivers an email or an RSS feed summarizing what your contacts have been doing.

Enter SocialMinder, an interesting service that’s just entered a closed alpha-testing phase. SocialMinder claims to:

• Analyze your email archive, mapping email contacts to your LinkedIn network.
• Identify those contacts searching for new business opportunities and neglected contacts that need attention.
• Provide recent business news from each identified contact to use as a discussion point. Read the rest of this entry »