Re: Publishing articles on LinkedIn

[Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>]

I've seen a lot of my friends have been writing "for" LinkedIn lately, and
wondered how they got that opportunity.

-T

On Wednesday, August 20, 2014, Joe Pairman <joepairman -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Hannah Drake <hannah -at- formulatrix -dot- com
> <javascript:;>>
>  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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