Archive for the ‘LinkedIn Groups’ Category
Friday, August 18th, 2017
LinkedIn changed the way that you, as a Group owner, sends an announcement. You used to go into the Group management page, and then there was a link to "send announcement."
If you are scratching your head over where that link went, and poke around every link on the management page ...
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
This is for people who run, admin, or own a LinkedIn Group.
There's this cool thing at the top that will cycle through an image you have, plus any "discussions" that you flag as manager's choice. I think you can have up to 7. It looks like this:
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2014
I'm in the process of experimenting with LinkedIn Articles (aka, posts). Unless you are an "influencer," you MUST work to get your article in front of others. Don't trust that just by posting people will see it.
Case in point, I've had a number of articles that have done okay... my ...
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Friday, October 17th, 2014
In August I blogged about a dismal change LinkedIn had made: LinkedIn Announcement Change: Boo! Hiss!
Today I'm here to report that the either changed back, or fixed a bug.... whatever the reason, LinkedIn Group Announcments have become useful again.
The problem was that when you sent a "Group Announcement," which is ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2014
Darn, LinkedIn did it again... another change that is cray cray.
As a group manager/owner, I have the ability to send an "announcement" to group members. Recently I sent an announcement and noticed that the title of the announcement was overwritten by LinkedIn's generic title... this is what people see in ...
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Thursday, February 20th, 2014
Have you heard of SWAM? Let me ruin your day.
SWAM on LinkedIn is "Site-Wide Automated Moderating." Fancy name, huh? Here's what it means. If one LinkedIn Group admin decides you need to be "blocked and deleted," then you just lost ability to participate in Group discussions EVERYWHERE on LinkedIn's ...
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Wednesday, January 15th, 2014
This is for Group owners and managers. It is not intuitive (see frustrated managers asking here). It has changed over time, and there are a lot of people asking how to remove a discussion from the Manager's Choice "Carousel." Here's the easiest way I've found to do remove a manager's ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
If you haven't heard yet, I'm doing a webinar on Friday morning (9am MST) on how to create and execute a proactive strategy on LinkedIn. More details and signup button here. From that page:
In this webinar you will learn:
Where to find people on LinkedIn. There are many more places than the ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2013
I have gotten about a dozen emails from LinkedIn like this:
I don't know about you but this BUGS me. I've held off on writing about it because previous posts might have sounded too jaded (who me? passionate? :p)
Anyway, I think I know why LinkedIn is doing this, and this morning ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
I'm in "LinkedIn Group Mode" since I was recently invited to co-manage a Group with over 30,000 members.
The first task on my list is the #1 task of any Group admin, which is to plan the weekly (if you can) "Group Announcements." This is perhaps the most compelling reason you ...
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