If you are like me and are maxxed out at 50 LinkedIn Groups and do a monthly check on your group membership as I recommend, you may notice that your 50 groups are now down to 49 or 48. What happened? And what should you do? I keep my membership information on an excel spreadsheet, so I always know when I have been removed from a group, and this has happened to me a few times. Hey, I am not a spammer nor am doing anything bad Here are some reasons why this happens, based on my own actual experience:
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Just got this question from a new member of my LinkedIn network today, so I thought I would share my answer with everyone. If you have something you want to tell everyone, or something that you want to sell, it makes sense that you want to go beyond your first level network to the millions (in my case almost 18 million) of people that are in your 2nd degree and 3rd degree network. But how to contact those in your 2nd degree and 3rd degree network directly, all at once, in an efficient manner?
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Today I announced what I believe is the first LinkedIn Group Mashup on LinkedIn! Giving you an idea of what I did will hopefully give you ideas of how you can collaborate with others on LinkedIn for whatever networking purpose you have. I am a manager of the Windmill Networking in Southern California “So Cal Sushi” LinkedIn Group, a networking community for those of us in Southern California (Los Angeles & Orange County) to get together monthly for lunch over some raw fish. My brother just started his first LinkedIn group, Tercero Wines, and he appointed me co-manager so that …
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As more and more people start to realize the value of contributing to the LinkedIn Answers feature through asking questions and providing answers, it is a good time to think about the proper etiquette for participating in the LinkedIn Answers forum. Now I am no Miss Proper, but there are a few things that I have noticed having experienced both ends of the stick that I would like to share with everyone and make some etiquette recommendations.
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Just as everyone has a good book that they could write, everyone has a good LinkedIn group that they can create. I am a believer that everyone has a niche that they have special expertise in, and thus you can argue that everyone should have their own LinkedIn group. For whatever reason you are on LinkedIn, if you are looking to connect with similar minded people, there is no better way to do this than to start your own LinkedIn group. Live in a region where there is no LinkedIn group? Start one. Work for a company that doesn’t have …
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I wrote a post several months ago on “How Do I Know if My Intended Recepient Recived My LinkedIn Invitation?” that I updated today that also touched upon this subject, but an hour after I wrote that, I realized that recently a lot of my LinkedIn invitations have bounced. What is the statistical trend here? What could be the cause of this?
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If you are reading this you hopefully already have a presence on LinkedIn, but maybe you are not as active as you should be. Confused as to why you need to join and use LinkedIn? Well, if you are a professional, there are many reasons why you at least need to join LinkedIn and should utilize the platform as your primary social networking tool. Why use LinkedIn? I will be honest with you in telling you that I first began using LinkedIn in transition, so for the job seeker it goes without saying that LinkedIn can be a valuable resource. …
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