Comments on: LinkedIn group and social networking

By: Jules

Jules — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:19:33 +0000

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.

By: Jules

Jules — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:16:27 +0000

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!

By: Jules

Jules — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:14:25 +0000

Yes, I’m logged in an active. I just can’t find a way to get to the group in order to join it!!

By: Jason Bailes

Jason Bailes — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:15:30 +0000

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.

By: Mike K.

Mike K. — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:10:18 +0000

If you want a rock solid site that has all the features that work how they should, check out Virtudex.com its the hottest Business Social Network in NY right now. It’s invite only so use the code 1z1code

Let me know you all think!

By: Zonker

Zonker — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:08:20 +0000

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.

By: Jules

Jules — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:11:16 +0000

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.

By: Zonker

Zonker — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:12:44 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:06:59 +0000

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.