Comments on: LinkedIn Invitations: Personalizing is Optional? Restrictions Exist?

By: Lee Bogner

Lee Bogner — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:39:40 +0000

RT @nealschaffer LinkedIn Invitations: Personalizing is Optional? Restrictions Exist? | Windmill N.. http://bit.ly/48yrf0

By: Todd Zebert

Todd Zebert — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:41:25 +0000

Great reason 2 publish your #LinkedIn profile URL: others can "Add to your Network" w/a personal note http://bit.ly/de9OJN

By: Todd Zebert

Todd Zebert — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:29:36 +0000

Finally hit this speedbump | #LinkedIn Invitations: Personalizing is Optional? Restrictions Exist? http://bit.ly/de9OJN @nealschaffer

By: Gail Grannum

Gail Grannum — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:21:18 +0000

RT @NealSchaffer The Newest LinkedIn Restriction on Your LinkedIn Invitation Text. http://budurl.com/neal74 #LinkedIn

By: Katie Felten

Katie Felten — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:29:56 +0000

RT @NealSchaffer: The Newest LinkedIn Restriction: Your LinkedIn Invitation Text. Why the limitation? http://budurl.com/neal74 #LinkedIn

By: Larry Adler

Larry Adler — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:15:37 +0000

RT @NealSchaffer: The Newest LinkedIn Restriction: Your LinkedIn Invitation Text. Why the limitation? http://budurl.com/neal74 #LinkedIn

By: Fernando TECO Sodre

Fernando TECO Sodre — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:06:40 +0000

RT @NealSchaffer: The Newest LinkedIn Restriction: Your LinkedIn Invitation Text. Why the limitation? http://budurl.com/neal74 #LinkedIn

By: nealschaffer

nealschaffer — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:34:55 +0000

Hi Mark,
Wow! They restricted your account for 4 days because you tweeted the truth? That is just bad. The whole episode (lack of software validation before release, misinformed support staff) really makes you wonder what is going on inside LinkedIn. The people that work there are certainly some of the brightest of Silicon Valley, but couldn't they show a little more respect for their users? Let's hope things get better…
- Neal

By: nealschaffer

nealschaffer — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:30:42 +0000

Hi Melinda,

Thanks for stopping by, and, as an Orange County resident who has mentioned the We are OC LinkedIn Group several times in my blog, you are truly preaching to the choir here! I think LinkedIn really needs to start thinking about how they treat their users and do some better PR. It really is the best service out there…they just need to be a little bit more responsive to their user needs and show us some TLC, if you know what I mean.
- Neal

By: markawilliams

markawilliams — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:22:13 +0000

I am not sure this update was really required but maybe Linkedin had their reasons, my view is that the time to send URL's is once you are connected – not within an invite. My main issue was the way it was handled. I had customers emailing and calling me saying that they could no longer personalize an invite – I contacted Customer services who said it was a glitch and would be resolved soon so I sent this message out – then a customer came back to me saying that CS had replied to their question by stating that the function had been removed and may never come back! It seems that even LI's own staff didnt know what was going on – not only are they poor communicators to their users but also to their own staff! I tweeted about this and promptly got my account suspended for 4 days as a punishment for saying anything negative about Linkedin! (lesson learnt there!)