Archive for the ‘LinkedIn Groups’ Category

LinkedIn Maintenance – 5 ideas from Chris Brogan

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Here's a great post with 19 daily tasks for various social media platforms... 5 for Twitter, 6 for Facebook, 5 for LinkedIn, and 4 for blogs.  Understand that Chris Brogan is a pioneer in this space, and doing this has been a part of his job descriptions over the years ...

LinkedIn Groups Discussion Tip

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

I posted a "discussion" on a LinkedIn Group yesterday to see what kind of feedback I got.  I got an unexpected good thing (how do you say "unexpected good thing?") happen to me... can you spot it here? Check out the first one, starting out as Highly talented... see who posted ...

LinkedIn Group Announcements (one little beef)

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

I introduced the LinkedIn Group Announcements yesterday, today I have to share my little beef.  I wrote my announcement with line breaks (or, spaces between paragraphs), and this is how I saw it in my gmail (not with the red lines, of course): It was one big glob :(  My question ...

LinkedIn Groups Announces Newsletter-like Feature

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

LinkedIn emailed all Groups owners last week saying that there is a new feature, akin to a newsletter for the Group owner: LinkedIn Group Announcements.  This is pretty cool, as it allows me as a Group owner to actually send a message to all Group members. Did I say "pretty cool?" ...

Introducing the LinkedIn PONY (Professional Open Networker Ylem)

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

I got an invitation to connect with Skip Wilson, founder of the LinkedIn PONY group/movement.  I had never heard of LinkedIn PONYs before, so I asked Skip.  Here's the description from the PONY LinkedIn Group page: We are aiming to rename our open network from a LION to a PONY. We ...

LinkedIn Group Discussions Tip

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Here's something I discovered on LinkedIn Group Discussions... when you leave a discussion comment, you can put your URL in and have it converted to a hyperlink.  So, if you put your email signature in, like this: Jason Alba CEO - http://www.JibberJobber.com then it will make that a clickable link.  This is one ...

LinkedIn Discussions – Noise vs. Real Value

Friday, November 21st, 2008

This week I wrote a post on Peter Newfield's Career Resumes blog about LinkedIn Discussions.  He asked his network about the value of LinkedIn Discussions, and the responses really surprised me.  I thought there would be people who would say they got a lot of value out of LinkedIn Discussions... ...