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LinkedIn group and social networking
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LinkedIn recently added a groups feature, and I created an openSUSE group so contributors and users of openSUSE could join.
Right now, LinkedIn’s groups feature is very primitive — you can’t search the directory for groups, the only way to find groups that aren’t specifically listed in LinkedIn’s directory is to see them listed on someone’s profile. Also, LinkedIn doesn’t give me any notice when other people ask to join the group. So, if you sign up and aren’t admitted immediately, don’t panic.
I expect that LinkedIn will address the shortcomings of their groups feature in the near future, and add features to make groups more useful.
But, I’m curious whether there’s anything offered by social networking sites that would be of use to the openSUSE community. What kind of “social” features could we use that we don’t already have through mailing lists, wikis, and IRC?
I like having an openSUSE group for LinkedIn because it allows contributors and users to show that they are part of the community, but I don’t know that it actually provides any useful features beyond that.
Anything special with LinkedIn that you advertize it? Eg Facebook has groups for long time and there exist several for SUSE Linux/openSUSE - the biggest one has 708 members.
Nothing special about LinkedIn, excepting that I was talking specifically about LinkedIn. I’ve actually found LinkedIn more useful than Facebook over time, at least when I was working as a journalist, because of the Q&A features.
Interesting that the link you gave doesn’t work for me. It just does a standard people search with no criteria. Also you group is not listed in the groups directory so it is impossible to join it! Perhaps groups are country specific? I’m in the UK.
Interesting — are you logged into LinkedIn at all? Unfortunately, LinkedIn doesn’t yet seem to have a way to link directly to a standard group page. As I said, they have some work to do… It’s not country-specific, though. I know several people have joined from outside the U.S.
Yes, I’m logged in an active. I just can’t find a way to get to the group in order to join it!!
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Let me know you all think!
<blockquote cite=”you can’t search the directory for groups, the only way to find groups that aren’t specifically listed in LinkedIn’s directory is to see them listed on someone’s profile”
I sought to help out on this issue a couple of days ago. I made the LinkedIn Groups Search custom search engine using Google Coop/CSE.
It seems to work very well and the response from the users has been great. I hope it works well for you too.
Hmm, here is the result of my search for “suse” (without the quotes)
Your search - suse - did not match any documents.
Suggestions:
* Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
* Try different keywords.
* Try more general keywords.
??? It seems that I am not destined to join this group no matter what!
Wayhay!
I used Jason’s search again. This time with “opensuse”.
It found it and I am joining now.
Regards.
Oh, PS - why does this comment form return a 500 server error when you forget to put the spam protection in? It’s a bit naff.