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Ooops!...Could This Be TRUE??? Could Linkedin Have Been RIGHT About The 50 Groups Limit?????
Whether it's a person, a concept, an incorporeal entity, or a corporation, when we get upset with them, one of the hardest possible things for us to do is to admit they may have been right about ANY issue.
Of course, acquiescing to one out of a myriad of issues doesn't mean that you'd have to blanketly acquiesce to all differences but, um, how do I say this - without inviting countless "I told you so's"?
So, as carefully as I can state a change in opinion about one matter, here goes...
After being back on Linkedin for a couple of months after my voluntary 90-day hiatus, I started to slowly join a few Linkedin groups. (What can I say, I'm a groupie. We'll just have to live with that...)
BUT, as I started to join those groups, Linkedin implemented its discussion feature for Linkedin Groups.
Now, before I left Linkedin, I'd created just under 100 groups of my own with total memberships of somewhere between 45-65,000. Further to my own groups, I have no earthly idea how many hundreds of other groups I'd joined! But, it was LOTS! Hundreds, for sure...
I'm now in just 32 groups, including 4 or 5 I've created.
But now with the discussions feature added, even with my belonging to just 32 groups, the volume of email is QUITE PRONOUNCED! (I clock about 1,200 messages every day even without messages from Linkedin Groups.)
That means that if 32 groups generated a VERY NOTICEABLE INCREASE in my email message load, think about what being in 50 groups would do. And just IMAGINE what being in FIVE HUNDRED Linkedin groups would do to your email volume. (Of course, some of it consists of repeat email messages from cross-postings on different groups within the same professional discipline.)
So, even though I kind of liked all those groups I used to own and belong to, I don't think I would have wanted 10, 20, or even 50 times more email messages than I'm currently getting from Linkedin Groups...
Thus, though the implementation wasn't necessarily the best, it appears that Linkedin may have been correct in limiting members to 50 groups - at least in terms of this measure. (I'm fully aware that Facebook has a group limit of 200 and that Yahoo Groups has no limit...)
How are you handling the increase in messages from Linkedin Groups?
Vincent Wright
Linkedin.com/in/VincentWright
Of course, acquiescing to one out of a myriad of issues doesn't mean that you'd have to blanketly acquiesce to all differences but, um, how do I say this - without inviting countless "I told you so's"?
So, as carefully as I can state a change in opinion about one matter, here goes...
After being back on Linkedin for a couple of months after my voluntary 90-day hiatus, I started to slowly join a few Linkedin groups. (What can I say, I'm a groupie. We'll just have to live with that...)
BUT, as I started to join those groups, Linkedin implemented its discussion feature for Linkedin Groups.
Now, before I left Linkedin, I'd created just under 100 groups of my own with total memberships of somewhere between 45-65,000. Further to my own groups, I have no earthly idea how many hundreds of other groups I'd joined! But, it was LOTS! Hundreds, for sure...
I'm now in just 32 groups, including 4 or 5 I've created.
But now with the discussions feature added, even with my belonging to just 32 groups, the volume of email is QUITE PRONOUNCED! (I clock about 1,200 messages every day even without messages from Linkedin Groups.)
That means that if 32 groups generated a VERY NOTICEABLE INCREASE in my email message load, think about what being in 50 groups would do. And just IMAGINE what being in FIVE HUNDRED Linkedin groups would do to your email volume. (Of course, some of it consists of repeat email messages from cross-postings on different groups within the same professional discipline.)
So, even though I kind of liked all those groups I used to own and belong to, I don't think I would have wanted 10, 20, or even 50 times more email messages than I'm currently getting from Linkedin Groups...
Thus, though the implementation wasn't necessarily the best, it appears that Linkedin may have been correct in limiting members to 50 groups - at least in terms of this measure. (I'm fully aware that Facebook has a group limit of 200 and that Yahoo Groups has no limit...)
How are you handling the increase in messages from Linkedin Groups?
Vincent Wright
Linkedin.com/in/VincentWright
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Inappropriate?If you don't want to receive any e-mails from a group, go to Account & Settings -> Receiving Messages. This way, you can keep the amount of e-mails you receive from your LinkedIn groups to a minimum. You can also specify the activity digest settings on a per-group basis by clicking on the Settings tab while visiting a group. If you know the ID for the group you belong to, you can construct the URL using this template: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?displaySettings=&gid=[numeric group ID goes here]. You can also get to this page by clicking on the group name from the Receiving Messages page.
With this feature, I don't think it makes sense to limit people's group memberships to 50 based on the e-mail volume argument.
I’m indifferent
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Christopher, thanks kindly for your very useful response. (It appears that I may have been off of LInkedin longer than I thought - I hadn't seen the feature for controlling group messages.)
