IT Geeks

Yesterday evening I downloaded Mxit Evo (Beta) for my new laptop and all in all I have been happy with it.

First impressions are that it is a big step-up from the original MxitPC which I had running on my other computer. A bit more functionality and a bit “prettier”. Definately an application I would keep as I’m a sucker for communications technology such as Mxit, Skype and the various other IM applications.

One thing that is concerning me though is whether it is not a bit resource hungry? I accidentally left it logged in last night and this morning I started using it and it was helluva slow.

Went into the task manager and it was chowing up plenty of the system resources.

Anybody else used it? Thoughts?

I am just reading a story on TBI about an Irish start-up called Goshido which used social networking site LinkedIn to raise $230000 in financing for their small business.

I have been meaning to blog about LinkedIn for a while and this story jumped out at me as a good one to look at LinkedIn.

Truth be told – until January this year I haven’t really used LinkedIn as a networking tool. As much as I despise a lot of these social media tools, I’ve been keen to use things like Twitter, Facebook and Skype to communicate without necessarily building my online LinkedIn presence.

I’m starting to get into it now and beginning to make some nice contacts on the platform which I wouldn’t make through the other tools. The main takeaway for me is that LinkedIn seems to offer more professional credibility.

What are your thoughts on using LinkedIn to grow your professional network?