I have a habit of going to my User Groups screen on LinkedIn pretty often. Because I manage a few different LinkedIn Windmill Networking Groups (including The Izakaya Club for Japan LinkedIn users and So Cal Sushi for Southern California LinkedIn users), I am always checking for new member requests. Because I am always optimizing my group membership I am constantly maxxed out at the 50 groups that LinkedIn allows us to join. The other day it happened again: I was cut down to 49 groups again. If you read my previous post on what to do if you get …
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I have recently heard that every second a new member is joining LinkedIn. This is an incredible testament to the the growing popularity of LinkedIn. On the other hand it is a reminder to me that there are still lots of questions out there for beginners that may not be necessarily covered on my blog…so today I wanted to attack one of them. This is an actual question that I answered on LinkedIn recently. And, indeed, when I first joined LinkedIn I was a little intimidated by the profiles of people that showed that they were a member of all …
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I often see this question of “What is a LinkedIn LION?” on the LinkedIn Answers section, and I already provided an answer on this definition back when I first started this blog in the summer of 2008. It was an honor that the author of the first real good book on LinkedIn, I’m On LinkedIn…Now What?, Jason Alba, quoted me in his blog when he blogged about the same issue: http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2008/07/31/im-a-lion-hear-me-roar/.
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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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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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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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As I mentioned in previous posts, LinkedIn Groups allow you to be virtually connected to a number of people that share the same interest. The largest group, Executive Suite, has _95,000_ members as I am writing this blog…that is more than double the number of connections that the most connected user, Ron Bates, has! If you join this group, you will be able to directly send an E-Mail as well as invite, without knowing the E-Mail address of, anyone in this group! Whether or not you use groups as part of your invite strategy is another story, but the ability …
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Until today this was an easy question to answer: as many as you want. However, today LinkedIn informed me that there will now be a maximum of 50 groups per person. The official E-Mail reads like this:
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Everytime someone invites me to connect with them, I always send out a reply thanking them and also asking them to contact me should they ever need any help with LinkedIn. I have had so many people, either directly or indirectly, help me that I thought I should give something back to the community. Well, not everyone asks me a question, but by far the question that I get the most is “How can I grow my network on LinkedIn?” As I have seen my network grow from a few hundred to a few thousand connections over the past several …
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