I’ve said for years that LinkedIn’s groups feature has great potential but lousy actual value.

Now Facebook groups are starting to take off, and the digital inspiration blog details some of their benefits over here. I suspect that “great potential but lousy actual value” may come to characterize them, too, but let’s check back in a year and see.

Meanwhile, there’s another player: ProfNet, which is part of PRNewswire, which has aspirations of combining the best pieces of HARO and LinkedIn. Will it work? As the cliche goes: Only time will tell.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 1:46 pm and is filed under Internet Stuff, Social Media.