Bill Kizer, who had served several Sage resellers as a sales manager, died this week after an 18-month battle of liver cancer. Kizer was probably better known as the founder of the LinkedIn group Sage Partners, Employees & Alumni Networking Group, which he started in May 2008 and which grew to more 8,500 members currently. Born in 1951, his active role in social media showed when his profile reached the 1 percent most viewed @LinkedIn profiles for 2012.