Linkedin Polls - an experiment
June 5th, 2009 | by Jason Alba |I have done one LinkedIn Poll before last week but decided to do another one… in the process I figured there was plenty to blog about (especially since the first step was very frustrating).
FIrst, the question. You only get 75 characters, which is really pathetic. Here’s what I wanted to write… the third is what I ended up writing because of the space limitation:
It’s really frustrating since I feel I can’t really convey my real message… there is a huge difference between the first question, with only 282 characters, and the last one, with only 73 characters. Alas, that is what I was stuck with.
Luckily I could customize the responses … while they are also limited, I was glad to add some bit of clarity there. I wish I could have allowed respondants to choose mutliple answers, instead of only one answer. Here are the options I put (you can see the first two could easily be combined with any of the last three):
Have you used LinkedIn Polls yet? I think this could be a terrific complement to a LinkedIn Answers strategy… if you can get through the frustrations. More on how to get the LinkedIn Poll distributed next week.
