As for LinkedIN, I have nothing against, it, but I don't use it. I don't have an account on it and not sure I ever want to. I'm already slightly on facebook, and very active on twitter, so nothing against linkedin, but there's just too many social media websites to keep track of....
There are no perfect solutions. It seems to me that Twitter is not conducive to technical Q&A and given the choice between Facebook and LinkedIn, it seems that the professional social network is more likely to gain traction. Nobody has to participate if they don't want to; it's just about adding a choice and seeing whether or not people really want this kind of thing.
Hmm, wouldn't http://serverfault.com/ or http://www.quora.com/ be a more appropriate / efficient forum for technical questions ? Or does it have to be NANOG specific ?
Never heard of Quora and that seems to be tied to Facebook, so not ideal. As for serverfault, that is a good idea but serverfault is not really for general IP networking questions related to routing and switching or ISP networking. Therefore, I have proposed that the operators of ServerFault and StackOverflow create a new site called NANOG (maybe it shouldn't be exactly that name). http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/29470/nanog If you have questions, comments, or want to commit to using the site for Q&A, please visit it and join in. It accepts Google, Yahoo, MyOpenID, AOL and Facebook credentials. --Michael Dillon http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=13566587