Hi, my name is Marcelo and I'm from Brazil. I am a CS graduated with more than 17 years experience in IT market, and +8 years experience with Drupal. I have some good works at my portfolio, and other minor websites to send you links if interested. I'm with 100% positive feedbacks here at Freelancer.com and I pretend to keep that.
I read the description about your project and I'd like to receive more detailed information about it. In fact, I'd like to receive an overview about the whole project, to understand what is needed for it, and also a to-do list with the micro-tasks, so I can evaluate it all.
For what I searched until now to this project, I could see that a LinkedIn integration is possible, but you need to tell what is this supposed to do (automatic synched login, post on LinkedIn from Drupal, post on Drupal from LinkedIn, etc.). A notification system by your own will take a lot of time, since there is none ready-to-go with Drupal, or a integration with a 3rd party service (Roost) can make it easier (but it's a paid service).
There are plenty of social tools to implement with Drupal, you just need to pick what you want to offer to your users (last actions, relationship, like/dislike, bookmark, points, etc.). A dashboard would be easy development at this point, considering the rest.
If my analysis above sounds good to you, then I hope to hear from you soon so we can set a better price and time to you.
Regards, Marcelo.
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