LinkedIn Groups provide several advantages to its organizers. Discussions in LinkedIn groups can either be open to the world to see and share, or restricted to members only.
LinkedIn Groups allow you to:
- Quickly discover the most popular discussions in your professional groups.
- Have an active part in determining the top discussions by liking and commenting.
- Follow the most influential people in your groups by checking the Top Influencers board or clicking their profile image to see all their group activity.
- See both member-generated discussions and news in one setting.
- Easily browse previews of the last three comments in a discussion.
- Find interesting discussions by seeing who liked a discussion and how many people commented.
Manage your Group with new moderation tools.
LinkedIn’s new moderation toolkit helps you keep the quality level high within group discussions.
- Managers and moderators can now delete inappropriate posts right from their email box using the new option “Send me an email for each new discussion” in More > My Settings.
- Managers and moderators can now delete inappropriate comments right from their email box by clicking “Delete” within any followed-discussion email alert.
- We are introducing the ability for members to flag items as inappropriate – initially this is a way for us to gather important data and in a few weeks, this capability will enable members to flag items into the moderation queue or, if you choose, delete the content outright after an adjustable number of flags.
- The moderation queue will allow group managers to decide how many member flags can delete a thread or a comment.
- Managers can now restrict the move-to-Jobs capability to themselves. Users still will be able to “Flag-as-job” to move an item into the moderation queue.
- Very-low-connection users will now be flagged as such in groups’ request-to-join queues.
- Very-low-connection users will no longer be admitted directly to open-access groups but routed to the groups’ request-to-join queues.
In my opinion, moderation of these groups serves an even higher purpose. If you provide great resources, great links, and some strong contributions to the discussions, your group will grow and you’ll gain access to decision makers you never would have been able to reach otherwise.
Take a look at the video from LinkedIn and if you have questions, shoot me a message.
