Now many of my groups are approaching a new hurdle, the 2000 member limit they have on the groups….

LinkedIn Corporation
1840 Embarcadero Rd.
Palo Alto, CA 94303
650-687-3600
Fax: 650-687-0505
https://www.linkedin.com
Feeling a bit disconnected? LinkedIn wants to help. The company is an online business network designed to help professionals find jobs, people, and services providers. LinkedIn offers four premium services: LinkedIn Jobs, LinkedIn Services, LinkedIn Groups, and LinkedIn Business Accounts. The company has grown to reach more than 5 million users nationwide since its inception in 2003. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Netscape and chairman of Opsware), Joe Kraus (co-founder of Excite), Josh Kopelman (founder of Half.com), and Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal).
Annual Sales (mil.) $3.0
Total Employees 24
Employees At This Location 24

Chairman; President, Products Reid Hoffman
VP and Chief of Staff Sarah Imbach
VP Business and Corporate Development Keith S. Rabois
VP Engineering Jean-Luc Vaillant
VP Marketing Konstantin Guericke
VP Product Strategy Allen Blue
VP Client Products Jaime Templeton
Chief Privacy Officer Duncan Work
Director Corporate Communications Kay Luo
Director Advertising David Hahn
Director Technology Yan Pujante
Director Operations Candy Mielke
Director Product Management Lucian Beebe
Director Sales Brendon Cassidy
Senior Technical Recruiter Hilary Taubman-Dye
Manager Corporate Development Steven Stegman
Senior Systems Architect Ian McNish
CEO Daniel T. H. (Dan) Nye Age 40

I looked at their telephone numbers and using one of my handy dandy stab-in tricks I dialed a little beyond it. I can tell you 650 687 3615 is a live body! So will (probably be,
3616, 3617, etc.) It seems they have 18 (of their 24?) employees listed so I’d stick close to the 3600 when dialing!

Loretta Thomas Customer Support Liaison San Fran

Poor thing, she’s about to get deluged. She’s there Ãs I checked!

They also appear to have a customer support center in Omaha:
Angela Burleigh Customer Support
Sakessa Moss Customer Support
Rob McClenahan Customer Support Professional

William Conner Customer Support Professional Support@LinkedIn.com
Suzy Jackson Customer Support
By the way the company directory spills with just ONE entry – pressing A for any names starting with A,B or C gives you about ten names, and some of them appear to be first names starting with A, B or c as well as last names starting with same.

I suspect this is what Nancy B is alluding to…

Give LI a business reason to retain open groups and they’ll probably acquiesce their strong arm position – unless they a 50 group limit as a means to monetize the groups upon which a new a la carte policy of pay for more may be put into place.

In the end, as Ari noted, it’s only a small percentage of users who get all worked up over LI’s “rules du jour”; most others get along just fine. And expect LI to come up with new monetizing policies perhaps the a la carte one as above.

It’s just business…

The problem with the limit as I see it is that its being put into place after the fact with an arbitrary limit (Facebook has a limit of 200, but they have always had that). What happens in the future, if next week someone decides the ideal limit should be 20 or 2?

Secondly, it goes against the whole consumer generated media thing where we the users are creating, voting and deciding with our behavior.

So there are two reasons against the limit. I have my reasons for being in more groups. Basically for SEO and for a wider search capability etc. Just don’t see a valid reason for having fewer groups at this point. If a good reason was made clear I might be for it?

[I’m a heavy user, earl user and have always been a paying user. Never an abuser]

Personally, I don’t look at one’s group memberships when contacting someone off the site. Moreover, I don’t see how one can belong to 20 groups on LinkedIn and actively contribute to each one. Join a Facebook group instead if you want to list meaningless blah blah on your profile.

There are 3 ‘groups’ created for my college sorority. 1 is a chapter specific group… surprising that there is only 1… but that shouldn’t cause too much cross group membership grief… BUT the other 2 are ‘unofficial’ groups created to serve everyone… started by 2 individuals trying to fill the void by a lack of ‘official’ presence. When will the crackdown come on that kind of duplication?

I am a member of ~20 groups and the only value I have seen is through the Q&A diversity from the business intelligence and software development communities…. Are that many groups needed to accomplish the interaction level that LI is trying to achieve?

Somehow and somewhere there will probably be another layer of ‘rules’ set out when the pure count method doesn’t answer all ills. I do applaud LI for taking it slow… one kind of restriction at a time… hopefully it will be answered by a new functionality before the next restriction?