What are the most popular business social networking sites?

It depends on what you mean by social networking in the business context: networking for jobs or for customers/clients.





The first business networking service (and arguably the first social networking service) was Ryze which was started in 2001 and has not grown substantially since.





http://www.ryze.com/





The most popular social networking application for business is LinkedIn by far, which picked up where Ryze left off. It currently has over 9M members and is a popular place to look for jobs or make business contacts. They make money by charging employers fees to talk to people in the system. It has also recently launched a similar application to Yahoo! Answers.





http://www.linkedin.com





Ecademy and XING (formerly OpenBC) are both lesser known business Networking sites that have a somewhat more niche audience





http://www.ecademy.com/


http://www.xing.com/





If you're looking to manage your customers, Salesforce.com is the industry leader in this space. They provide a number of services for people within an organization/corporation to share client information.





http://www.salesforce.com

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