Monday Contest, Social Networks edition

[Irina Shamaeva]

1. If Mary has 100 first level LinkedIn connections and each of her connections has 100 connections, what are her max and min number of SECOND LEVEL connections?
Bonus: the same if her connections are not connected with each other.

2. Create a Boolean string on a major search engine such as Google or Yahoo that returns the largest number of LinkedIn profiles of people in finances/accounting.

3. Find (or create!) a Twitter person with the word "sourcer" or "sourcing" in his/her profile who has the largest number of followers.

Please reply with your answers. We will review the results tomorrow around 10 am PDT. The winner will be able to attend a webinar of his/her choice free of charge (see the current schedule at "Webinars, DVDs, and the ERE Expo Fall workshop"), or get a 30-min web sourcing consultation over the phone.

[Irina Shamaeva]

Here is a hint. Replace 100 for 3 in #1 and try to solve this one first:

If Mary has 3 LinkedIn connections and each of her connections has 3 connections, what are her max and min number of SECOND LEVEL connections?

Bonus: If Mary has 3 LinkedIn connections and each of her connections has 3 connections, and if her connections are not connected with each other, what are her max and min number of SECOND LEVEL connections?

[Kameron Swinton]

I guess I'm a little late because it's Wednesday and I'm just seeing this but here goes:

1) Hmmmm....Max = 10,000, min = 9,900?
2) site:linkedin.com (inurl:in|pub) (Accounting|Financial|Finance|Tax) -intitle:directory -inurl:answers -inurl:updates -inurl:jobid -inurl:find -inurl:events - Google estimates 3.76 million results
3) I came up with SourcerKelly - http://twitter.com/SourcerKelly with 1729 followers but Twellow lists users with a larger following but sourcer|sourcing is not in their Twitter profile. I used site:twitter.com "bio * sourcer|sourcing" "1000..100000 followers" to check it

-kameron

[Irina Shamaeva]

Thanks!
1: (Mary's connections) not right :( (and I still do not have the right answers)
Try doing it for the case of 3 instead of 100.


Kameron Swinton said:

I guess I'm a little late because it's Wednesday and I'm just seeing this but here goes:

1) Hmmmm....Max = 10,000, min = 9,900?
2) site:linkedin.com (inurl:in|pub) (Accounting|Financial|Finance|Tax) -intitle:directory -inurl:answers -inurl:updates -inurl:jobid -inurl:find -inurl:events - Google estimates 3.76 million results
3) I came up with SourcerKelly - http://twitter.com/SourcerKelly with 1729 followers but Twellow lists users with a larger following but sourcer|sourcing is not in their Twitter profile. I used site:twitter.com "bio * sourcer|sourcing" "1000..100000 followers" to check it

-kameron

[Peter Henkle]

I found twitter.com/recruitingtruth has 4658 followers.

[Kameron Swinton]

I tried it in the case of 3 and here was my process: I had 3 first level connections with 9 max second level connections (3 first level connections x 3 unique second level connections). I subtracted 2 connections from each of the my first level connections' networks in case all of their connections (except 1, themselves) were my other first level connections. Were that to be the case the minimum would be 6 as they would each have to have 1 new connection not known to me directly. However, all 6 of these connections could be the same person, so technically the min number of 2nd connections would be 1.

In my 100 connections answer I should have given the minimum number of 2nd level connections (that I found) as 100 not 9,900 (as that is the number of connections that could be shared and thus should be subtracted from 10,000). 100 because each of my 100 first level connections would have to have 1 new connection. Again, same thing applies here, assuming all of those people were connected to the same person, and that person is the only unique connection (not found in my first level), then the min is 1.

very confusing :)

-kameron


Irina Shamaeva said:

Thanks!
1: (Mary's connections) not right :( (and I still do not have the right answers)
Try doing it for the case of 3 instead of 100.


Kameron Swinton said:

I guess I'm a little late because it's Wednesday and I'm just seeing this but here goes:

1) Hmmmm....Max = 10,000, min = 9,900?
2) site:linkedin.com (inurl:in|pub) (Accounting|Financial|Finance|Tax) -intitle:directory -inurl:answers -inurl:updates -inurl:jobid -inurl:find -inurl:events - Google estimates 3.76 million results
3) I came up with SourcerKelly - http://twitter.com/SourcerKelly with 1729 followers but Twellow lists users with a larger following but sourcer|sourcing is not in their Twitter profile. I used site:twitter.com "bio * sourcer|sourcing" "1000..100000 followers" to check it

-kameron

[Irina Shamaeva]

You are getting closer! Try again for the case of 3. 2nd connection is someone with whom you are connected via someone else and not directly.

Kameron Swinton said:

I tried it in the case of 3 and here was my process: I had 3 first level connections with 9 max second level connections. I subtracted 2 connections from each of the my first level connections' networks in case all of their connections (except 1) were my other first level connections (minus themselves). Were that to be the case the minimum would be 6 as they would each have to have 1 new connection not known to me directly. However, all 6 of these connections could be the same person, so technically the min number of 2nd connections would be 1.

In my 100 connections answer I should have given the minimum number of 2nd level connections (that I found) as 100 not 9,900 (as that is the number of connections that could be shared and thus should be subtracted from 10,000). 100 because each of my 100 first level connections would have to have 1 new connection. Again, same thing applies here, assuming all of those people were connected to the same person, and that person is the only unique connection (not found in my first level), then the min is 1.

very confusing :)

-kameron


Irina Shamaeva said:

Thanks!
1: (Mary's connections) not right :( (and I still do not have the right answers)
Try doing it for the case of 3 instead of 100.


Kameron Swinton said:

I guess I'm a little late because it's Wednesday and I'm just seeing this but here goes:

1) Hmmmm....Max = 10,000, min = 9,900?
2) site:linkedin.com (inurl:in|pub) (Accounting|Financial|Finance|Tax) -intitle:directory -inurl:answers -inurl:updates -inurl:jobid -inurl:find -inurl:events - Google estimates 3.76 million results
3) I came up with SourcerKelly - http://twitter.com/SourcerKelly with 1729 followers but Twellow lists users with a larger following but sourcer|sourcing is not in their Twitter profile. I used site:twitter.com "bio * sourcer|sourcing" "1000..100000 followers" to check it

-kameron

[Kameron Swinton]

http://twitter.com/worldarts - mentions sourcing, 4,903 followers

[Chris Penny]

when mentioning sourcing or sourcer, does it have to relate to what we do?...I can find lots of profiles with just the word "sourcer" OR "sourcing" on their page

[Irina Shamaeva]

I guess not but it would be best if they did :)

Chris Penny said:

when mentioning sourcing or sourcer, does it have to relate to what we do?...I can find lots of profiles with just the word "sourcer" OR "sourcing" on their page

[Irina Shamaeva]

Kameron Swinton is the WINNER! I will post the details later today.

Congratulations, Kameron!