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Subject:Re: Publishing articles on LinkedIn From:Joe Pairman <joepairman -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 20 Aug 2014 22:00:40 +0100
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Hannah Drake <hannah -at- formulatrix -dot- com>
wrote:
> Why would one want to publish on LinkedIn? So LinkedIn owns it? Doesn't
> seem like a great deal. Unless you publish a summary and then link to your
> own site, or something.
Effective circulation of one's ideas, perhaps? When you publish on
LinkedIn, not only do your connections get an item in their stream saying
you've posted, it seems there's also a fair bit of traffic from search or
the LinkedIn recommendations (not necessarily from connections) at the top
of the stream.
When I published something on LinkedIn, it got quite a few views, whereas
my blog posts don't generally get so many (mostly because I don't post
regularly and hardly do any promotion!)
Regarding Erika's question on who gets this feature, LinkedIn are rolling
it out gradually. I think they may use some internal criteria to determine
who gets the invitations, such as number of connections or amount of
activity.
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