LinkedIn Groups learns to share
In July this year, we announced LinkedIn Groups’ searchable directory to make it easier for you to find the groups you’ll derive the most benefit from. In August, we turned on the discussions feature and just last month Monica Rogati blogged about “Groups you might Like” that makes it easier for you to stumble upon – (yes, you guessed right) – groups you might like!
I’m glad to be back with more Groups enhancements, which provide you ways to share, customize and organize the groups that you’ve now become a part of.
1. Sharing your Groups with your professional network
How many times have you wanted to share your favorite new LinkedIn group with other members of your professional network? Starting today, you should be able to share that group with select connections in your group from the Group Profile page.
2. Customize your Group Discussions
Also, for those of you who’ve been wondering how to edit or delete either a discussion or comments in a discussion thread, we’ve now included features that should make those possible.
3. Easier organization of your groups
For members of multiple groups who’d like better tools to organize and prioritize so that the most important groups (for you) show up on the left hand navigation bar on your homepage (see the highlighted portion below), check out our new “Groups Order and Display” page.
Comments, feedback and suggestions are always welcome.
Tags: groupsyoumightlike, linkedingroups
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Emanuele Quintarelli October 10th, 2008
Thanks Ben for citing our Enterprise 2.0 Group and for keeping on providing great functionalities on the Linkedin social network.
Best,
Emanuele
Manosh Markos October 13th, 2008
Hi Ben,
Love the features that have been enabled for LinkedIn Groups. I manage the Harrah’s Alumni group – which is the official group for all former employees of Harrah’s Entertainment or its subsidiary companies. It currently has 240+ members. Had a quick question, and it may probably have been answered earlier:
As a Group owner and manager, I used to have the ability to sort my members by name and date of joining. This was invaluable for me in managing quickly online the group list. Is this a feature that would be enabled back in the future?
Cheers,
Manosh
Iancho Dimitrov October 13th, 2008
Hi Ben,
These are nice features indeed and I hope more are on their way!
I have a comment on the most useful one introduced here – “Sharing your Groups with your professional network”. It seems that if you want to do this with a group that you are already a member of you CAN NOT do this
- through the My Groups page
nor
- through the respective Group’s page (e.g. its Overview section)
and you CAN ONLY do this
- through the Groups Search Results page.
I find this quite inconvenient because most of the times I think you would like to share some of YOUR groups with your connections (and not groups you have simply stumbled upon). And the most natural way for doing this according to me is to open the My Groups page or the respective Group’s page and follow a “Share” link from there. At the time being there is no such link there.
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Iancho
Stacy October 15th, 2008
Ben, will the “export current members” feature be made available once again? Or, is there another way to see a list of all members at once (not on multiple pages)? Thanks,
~Stacy
MobiGUY October 31st, 2008
Спасибо, было интересно
Прошу-Внимания November 2nd, 2008
blog.linkedin.com, админ. Кто писал про последнее китайское предупреждение ? Извини. Я надеюсь мы найдем компромисс ? 1. Поставь на блог-комментирование хорошую каптчу. 2. Пошли урлы своих блогов сюда chezanah@gmail.com и ты избавишься от меня. Ещё раз приношу извинения. издержки производства…
annervefs November 3rd, 2008
Дискутировать можно бесконечно, поэтому просто поблагодарю автора. Спасибо!
Fuviallurniff November 6th, 2008
Развейте тему дальше. Интересно узнать подробности!!!
heedPoFfTholo November 7th, 2008
Привет Только что по первому каналу показывали первая серия фильма 12. Каковы ваши ощущения ?
heedPoFfTholo November 7th, 2008
ну да, добротный пост ;). как думаете, завтра Арсенал победит манукунианцев ?
з.ы. жаль по обычному телевидению не посмотришь… :( придётся идти в бар, где есть нтв +
heedPoFfTholo November 8th, 2008
я думаю сегодня в 15-45 Арсенал победят манукунианцев !
Вот так ! хотя жаль Адебайора не будет :(
Вперёд Арсенал !!!
Francesco Zorgno November 10th, 2008
Dear Ben,
It is great to see our networking opportunities increase with the number of interesting groups on the platform but, as a LinkedIn group owner, I’ve been having problems in communicating with the LinkedIn group customer support service for the past five days.
My group (Friul-in http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=52810)has been suspended since last week, for what was considered “an infringement to LinkedIn user agreement” for a non-better specified use of Linkedin logo in our logo (even we never used the Linkedin logo or anything similar actually).
The group had been open for 11 montha, and it was very easy for me to modify the logo in minutes once I was notified. This could have been done with prior notification and without having to suspend the group. After being notified by your customer service, it seems my reply message could not go directly to the person that contacted me and was left queuing (and is still queuing apparently).
I hope these remarks can help improve your service to the users of the group application on LinkedIn.
As you may understand our network activities are getting serious troubles from this prolonged and apparently not justfied suspension.
Thanks for your support,
Francesco
orevaWeatte November 16th, 2008
друзья, а как вы думаете, когда наступит дефолт в России ? имхо после нового года :(
Jaryesserge November 25th, 2008
Thak you for the news
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Алексей January 4th, 2009
Извините за оффтоп, не подскажете, где мона такой же симпатичный шаблон для блога взять?
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Kenny Beck February 17th, 2009
Hi Ben.I am having a great deal of difficulty sharing a new group I created with all of my connections. I have received many emails telling me there eas no link included so they couldn’t join. How can I fix this situation?
Kenny Beck
superstarcase.org
dirkfrey March 23rd, 2009
@ Kenny Beck – This issue should have been resolved since your post. Please let us know if you are still having this problem.