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Saturday, 9 May 2009

How to encourage users to join an exclusive discussion group on Linkedin?

Alison's Contribution:

Interesting question... and an interesting challenge.

There are at least two opposing forces at play here.

1. You need to be found in the first place and have a great reputation for people to want to join you.
2. You need somehow to vet applications based on the imperfect information available to you on Linkedin - there is little if any verification of what is said on the profile. Many people never fill them out, some aren't truthful.

I have two suggestions to make which are based on making it an open group.
1. Make a decision on application whether you will accept them or not.
2. Accept everyone and use a penalty for unacceptable behaviours.

Hope this helps.

Alison
posted 8 days ago

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