LinkedIn Answers: Author Wants to Know Your Thoughts on Cybercrime and How to Stop It
We’ve had some pretty phenomenal questions pop up on LinkedIn Answers over the past few months. LinkedIn users have had the opportunity to weigh in on questions posed by high profile folks like Bill Gates and Barack Obama.
This week we’re proud to feature a question from USA Today reporter, Jon Swartz. Jon and his colleague, fellow USA Today reporter Byron Acohido, spent nearly four years building the platform for their book, Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks & Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity, which is due in bookstores in early April.
Since Jon and Byron’s book focuses on the topic of cybercrime, Jon decided to pose a question on LinkedIn asking if any of LinkedIn’s more than 20 million users have ever been burned by cybercrime, and what they think corporate and federal authorities do to slow down the threat. Cybercrime is clearly a painful process for anyone to go through and so far Jon has gotten some pretty passionate responses.
Here are two points-of-view on that take. There are some like Ron Wiles who believe Cybercrime is here to stay.
On the flipside, there are others like Mel Drives who advocates best practices to drive down such instances of cybercrime.
Since the question is still open, feel free to not only check them out in LinkedIn Answers but also add in your own two cents about this hot topic.
Rob Russell Apr 1, 2008
Okay, we get it. Your PR team can pull in celebrities to ask questions and run away. But frankly, this is getting absurd and repetitive.
Jon Swartz already knows the answer to his question -- he wrote the book! If he was taking LinkedIn Answers seriously, he would have asked questions during the course of his research. But he didn't.
And you're patronizing us with these wringer questions where we know darned well that they're not going to be reading all the answers. What is this, LinkedIn Rhetorical Questions?
Show me the questions *answered* by Gates or Obama. Show me a published book that cites LinkedIn Answers as a reference from the research. Those kinds of accomplishments are worthy of note, and cause for celebration. I'd love to hear about them.
This grandstanding is insulting to the community, dismissive to the real potential of the product, and clutter on the LinkedIn Blog.
Perhaps you're confusing LinkedIn Answers with a normal internet discussion forum? You seem to be, and that will only serve to dilute your brand.