![]() So now you see how the new restrictions on LinkedIn Groups make it a bad scenario for both the Group Managers and Members. So now I only have the option of placing a Discussion on the Discussion Board and hope that everyone sees it in the next 24 hours…I’d be lucky if 5% of my group members happen to be looking at it today. And it is just too inefficient to send out mass emails…after all, that is why LinkedIn wants you to use the Announcement feature and NOT email the entire group. The Announcement feature, which allows the Group Manager to send out a message to everyone in the group, can only be used once a week (note: this has more recently been replaced by the ability to only send out a Group notification once a week…). Great! And because the common factor of those who are attending is their LinkedIn membership, it further evangelizes LinkedIn.īut, not so fast. Today I got notified from the restaurant that they might put some PR muscle into this to try to get a lot more people to come to the networking event. I sent out an Announcement a few days ago to remind people of the event and basically positioned it as a last call for RSVPs. Composing a message to multiple recipients on Inbox, in essence, sucks. I can now only send out an Announcement OR have to use the very inefficient Inbox to spend a few minutes just to send out an email to multiple contacts. I used to be able to easily send an email to the subset of group members that RSVPed me that they could attend. My next Southern California So Cal Sushi LinkedIn Group event is tomorrow. From the average user perspective the changes may seem minimal, but for those power users and LinkedIn Group Managers who are the best evangelizers for LinkedIn (I love you LinkedIn!) the changes are quite significant. If you’ve been reading my blog or my tweets, you should realize that a lot of people are upset about the changes in LinkedIn Group and Inbox functionality that occurred last week. ![]() Read on for a creative solution for those that can’t afford to pay to advertise on social media… In some ways, the advice that I gave sometime ago is the same advice that I would give today: Becoming a paid member often gives you a dedicated support line so that at least you know your requests are not being ignored. The problem is that it is hard to find out who or how to send a complaint to a customer service representative at any given social network and how to know if and when you are going to receive a response. Below is an incident detailing one of those incidents that happened to me several years ago but serves as an example of the never-ending changes that occur in social, and why you might want to know how to send a complaint to LinkedIn. Your LinkedIn account might face restrictions today but I might never. Some functionality is here today gone tomorrow.
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