Shawn Mullen has his LinkedIn app running while on the road. “When I see a place that I’ve not called on before, I can park, LinkIn for a contact name, Google the contact on the Droid for a phone number, and then touch the link to call from the Jeep without need of my laptop or finding a Wi-Fi connection,” says Mullen, who is with Protex Central.
Adds Richard Haig Jr., “I use LinkedIn and Twitter extensively. In fact, I keep them running on my desktop at all times alongside my e-mail inbox and interoffice messaging program.” Haig, president and chief executive officer at Haig Service Corporation / CHQ in Green Brook, N.J., goes against the grain when he suggests that, while some use social networking sites (SNS) to keep in touch with a small group of “friends,” it is even “more valuable for affording the ability to entrepreneurs and leaders in our industry to poke their heads up out of this painfully tightly closed industry box.”