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First - what is the VoIP News LinkedIn Experts Group? If you are a VoIP expert and a member of LinkedIn, you can head on over there and request membership in our group. But for those of you coming here because you are ALREADY members, here is a question for you all. Something sadly rather topical. Please respond in comments.

In the current economic climate, how do you deal with prospective partners or clients or customers or vendors around concerns about cost and ROI?

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First - what is the VoIP News LinkedIn Experts Group? If you are a VoIP expert and a member of LinkedIn, you can head on over there and request membership in our group. But for those of you coming here because you are ALREADY members, here is a question for you all. Please respond in comments.

How are you planning to integrate mobile devices and applications into the voip services you use and which you are building for your employers or clients? Are you looking for straightforward integration or are you looking to add to the suite of applications the business can employ once you have mobility enabled with voip?

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Thank you to all of you who joined the VoIP Experts Group on LinkedIn. Drop us a line in the comments here about what kinds of things you would like to see happen with the group. We are underway in planning an Exerts subsection here on VoIP News where you will be able to communicate with one another and also where less expert members of the VoIP community can look for help.  But most importantly to get started, let us know what you would like to a) get out of the group and b) see us do to help make it more effective.

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The group is now up and running and the link to go join is here:

http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/79057/6CCE3E504508

You will need to be a member of LinkedIn as well, but LinkedIn is a great resource for professionals, so you are quite likely to want to join anyway.

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VoIP News is forming an experts group via LinkedIn. First off, some basic details so you know what this means.

LinkedIn is a ’social media’ site that connects professionals and their networks of colleagues, peers and business relationships. It has proven to be very successful and many influential people within IP telephony and the VoIP space are members of LinkedIn. One of the ways these professionals can connect via LinkedIn is via professional groups. VoIP News is setting up one of these groups for VoIP experts to connect and help make business relationships.  In this case, because we want to be completely open and to facilitate community within VoIP, we are simply going to say that if you think you are a VoIP expert, then you are one.

Some people will invited directly via email form within the LinkedIn system. The other way to join is via a link to the group. We do not have that today, but we will in the next couple of days and we will post the link here for those who want to join.

Please note: LinkedIn takes professional relationships very seriously as do we here at VoIP News. If you aren’t a VoIP expert then please don’t try to join. LinkedIn relies on members only making connections when there is a real connection there to be made - in other words, don’t build and add to your network just for the sake of having a big network - in the long run you’ll hurt your reputation.

Finally, this is an experiment. It may not work. But if it does it should provide another way for VoIP professionals to connect with one another.

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