I’ve been using LinkedIn Answers pretty heavily now since its launch. While I think it’s a really useful feature, it has a lot of room for improvement. Here are my top picks for features LinkedIn could add to Answers to make it supremely useful:
Last week LinkedIn launched their new Answers service, and it’s already drawing a great deal of participation, but unfortunately it’s also drawn an inordinate amount of posts that are at best inappropriate and at worst spam. Also, many users, particularly those with large numbers of connections, have complained about their inboxes and front pages being [...]
Some time last year, I was getting ready to head out to my stepson’s new apartment during rush-hour traffic. There’s one particular intersection along the way that is always extremely busy that time of day, so I decided to pull up Google Maps to see if there was a back way, and sure enough, it [...]
Guy Kawasaki posted this morning about 11 ways to use LinkedIn (Guy apparently can’t count :)):
Increase your visibility.
Improve your connectability.
Improve your Google PageRank.
Enhance your search engine results.
Perform blind, “reverse,” and company reference checks.
Increase the relevancy of your job search.
Make your interview go smoother.
Gauge the health of a company.
Gauge the health of an industry.
Track startups.
Ask for [...]
So why would you want to take the time to answer questions on LinkedIn Answers?
Now I’m not bragging, and I doubt I’ll be able to keep that up. But I do it to illustrate that providing good, thoughtful answers that help people get their job done is a fantastic way to network — in fact, [...]
Should’ve seen this coming… no sooner is the very cool LinkedIn Answers up and running than it starts getting hit with spam. No, these aren’t your typical anonymous Viagra hawkers — these are people who still just don’t get the fundamental difference between networking and being an idiot selling. It’s also NOT a way to [...]
LinkedIn has launched their new Answers feature, perhaps the most major added functionality since LinkedIn Jobs. The Answers service adds a public interaction element to LinkedIn — something that many of the more active users of LinkedIn have been suggesting for quite some time.
UPDATE: I noticed the other day that this post is still attracting a lot of traffic. FYI, due to popular demand, Vincent changed his mind, and MLPF is still very much alive and well (as of April 2008).
Vincent Wright, the founder of the MyLinkedInPowerForum Yahoo Group and 150 or so niche spin-offs, announced Monday that [...]
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