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Bill Gates is giving social networking another try and will use the LinkedIn professional networking site to ask how technology can be better used to support his charitable causes.
On Thursday, Gates, the chairman of Microsoft who will officially become a part-time employee of the company in July, will post a question to 19 million users of LinkedIn via its question feature.
The feature allows the question to be broadcast to the entire LinkedIn network, which includes top executives representing all five hundred of the Fortune 500 companies, according to LinkedIn.
Every LinkedIn members will be able to post in real time answers to Gates’s question.
LinkedIn says Gates will use the responses to further his philanthropic work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Last year, Gates ran into trouble with his Facebook site when he was overwhelmed with “Friends” requests and shut down his site. In October 2007, Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook.
As of Dec. 31, 2007, the foundation’s asset trust endowment stood at $38.7 billion. It paid out more than $2 billion in grants in 2007. The foundation supports work in more than 100 countries.
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RE: Gates to tap into social network to support his foundationBy IT WILL NEVER WORK THIS WAY on February 28, 2008, 1:29 pmDon't believe one optimistic word from any public figure about the economy or humanity in general. They are all part of the problem. Its like a game of Monopoly....
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