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Important Linkedin Group Change
Many of you discovered Link_Florida via LinkedIn. If you are here it is because you understand that no groups actually are hosted on Linkedin but elsewhere. What you get from LinkedIn is the ability to promote your group by attaching the groups icon or logo to your profile, I call this a "Profile Bumper Sticker"
Since the release of the long overdue, searchable LI group data base Linkedin has decided to limit the number of groups any member may belong to to 50.
Below is the email I received this morning from LinkedIn
Dear Chuck,
As an active member of LinkedIn Groups, we wanted to let you know about some changes we're putting in place in the coming weeks.
We are in the process of adding new functionality to enhance the experience of Groups, including the recent release of a searchable directory. We are also working with our development teams to bring new tools and widgets to this collaborative space throughout the rest of 2008.
We are also at this time making some changes to the user-created groups we host. These changes include adding a limit to the number of user-created groups any LinkedIn member may be part of at one time. Currently we are setting that limit at membership in 50 (fifty) user-created groups.
...Please take the time before this limit goes into place on August 14, 2008, to choose which groups you would like to maintain. To remove yourself from a group, go to the My Groups page and click the word "Settings" next to the group you wish to leave. At the bottom of the settings page click the text "Leave this group."
We would appreciate it if you would please take this action within the next 10 days. If you would prefer, after 30 days we will automatically keep the first 50 groups that you joined and remove the rest.
If you would like assistance removing yourself from groups, or if you have any other questions, please contact us at http://linkedin.custhelp.com or groups@linkedin.com.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you, but we hope you will continue to find value in LinkedIn and especially enjoy the new functionality of LinkedIn Groups that is coming soon.
Regards,
The LinkedIn team
Therefore if you belong to over 50 groups you must determine which of those groups you wish to continue to belong to on LinkedIn or the choice will be made for you.
If you are an active networker chances are you belong to 50+ groups. If you don't take action you run the risk of being deleted from groups you don't wish to be deleted from.
Why is this important?...While Link_Florida, Link_Texas, Link_Atlanta and Link_USA etc are "network agnostic" meaning it does not matter where you maintain your professional network the fact is those profile bumper stickers are the #1 passive way that people find out about the group and check it out. Since the inception of the searchable group database the number of members of the group on LinkedIn has become more important. The reason is that when you search for a group on linkedin the groups with the most members appears at the top of the list. There are hundreds of groups that come up when you search on Florida Link_Florida's position in your search results is determined by the number of members who have joined on linkedin. So if you want the group to continue to grow and attract high caliber members. Please make sure that Link_Florida is a group you will continue to proudly belong too.
If you belong to over 50 groups please cut them down to below 50 and make sure Link_Florida is one of them.
Thanks,
Chuck Z.
Since the release of the long overdue, searchable LI group data base Linkedin has decided to limit the number of groups any member may belong to to 50.
Below is the email I received this morning from LinkedIn
Dear Chuck,
As an active member of LinkedIn Groups, we wanted to let you know about some changes we're putting in place in the coming weeks.
We are in the process of adding new functionality to enhance the experience of Groups, including the recent release of a searchable directory. We are also working with our development teams to bring new tools and widgets to this collaborative space throughout the rest of 2008.
We are also at this time making some changes to the user-created groups we host. These changes include adding a limit to the number of user-created groups any LinkedIn member may be part of at one time. Currently we are setting that limit at membership in 50 (fifty) user-created groups.
...Please take the time before this limit goes into place on August 14, 2008, to choose which groups you would like to maintain. To remove yourself from a group, go to the My Groups page and click the word "Settings" next to the group you wish to leave. At the bottom of the settings page click the text "Leave this group."
We would appreciate it if you would please take this action within the next 10 days. If you would prefer, after 30 days we will automatically keep the first 50 groups that you joined and remove the rest.
If you would like assistance removing yourself from groups, or if you have any other questions, please contact us at http://linkedin.custhelp.com or groups@linkedin.com.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you, but we hope you will continue to find value in LinkedIn and especially enjoy the new functionality of LinkedIn Groups that is coming soon.
Regards,
The LinkedIn team
Therefore if you belong to over 50 groups you must determine which of those groups you wish to continue to belong to on LinkedIn or the choice will be made for you.
If you are an active networker chances are you belong to 50+ groups. If you don't take action you run the risk of being deleted from groups you don't wish to be deleted from.
Why is this important?...While Link_Florida, Link_Texas, Link_Atlanta and Link_USA etc are "network agnostic" meaning it does not matter where you maintain your professional network the fact is those profile bumper stickers are the #1 passive way that people find out about the group and check it out. Since the inception of the searchable group database the number of members of the group on LinkedIn has become more important. The reason is that when you search for a group on linkedin the groups with the most members appears at the top of the list. There are hundreds of groups that come up when you search on Florida Link_Florida's position in your search results is determined by the number of members who have joined on linkedin. So if you want the group to continue to grow and attract high caliber members. Please make sure that Link_Florida is a group you will continue to proudly belong too.
If you belong to over 50 groups please cut them down to below 50 and make sure Link_Florida is one of them.
Thanks,
Chuck Z.
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Permalink Reply by Jack Siegel on -
Chuck, Thanks for posting the LI info. As a "sometimes" busy professional, I have a hard enough time visiting, searching, and making contacts on the Link networks (USA, Georgia, Atlanta, and Florida) and the few specialty groups that belong to. I dont know how anyone can be involved in over 50 groups and have time to get any work done? But that's just me. I think Im up to 12 groups on LI. Take care
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