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  • problem

    Ben Burnett reported a problem in LinkedIn on February 20, 2009 19:36:

    Ben Burnett
    LinkedIn Groups Approval pages keep failing with "There was an unexpected problem that prevented us from completing your request." (for at least 5 days now)
    LinkedIn Groups Approval pages keep failing with "There was an unexpected problem that prevented us from completing your request." (for at least 5 days now). I've started a tech support ticket, but the problem still exists, I wanted to see if anyone else was having similar issues.

    Thanks,
    --Ben

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    Tech support request ticket: 2/17/09
    I am trying to approve members for my "4h alumni" group. I go through the normal process but I keep getting errors.
    from here:
    http://www.linkedin.com/home?myGroups...
    I then click "MANAGE: 15 requests to join" for the group "4H Alumni" (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=27829)
    then I get an error:
    "There was an unexpected problem that prevented us from completing your request."
    this error has shown up from at least 2 URLs:
    URL1: http://www.linkedin.com/manageGroupMe...
    URL2: http://www.linkedin.com/manageGroupMe...
    I think I finally got the names approved I needed to, but I have been having problems approving people in this group for the past 2-3 days (started about 2/14/09). What is wrong? Is anyone else having similar issues?
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    LinkedIn Response: (2/17/09)
    Dear Ben,
    Thank you for contacting LinkedIn Customer Support. We apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced. We are aware of the issue you are currently experiencing and we are working diligently to resolve it. We appreciate your patience.
    Thank you for being a valued member of our LinkedIn community!

    Regards,
    LinkedIn Groups Team
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    My response: (2/19/09)
    This is now happening for other groups also, it got better for the first group, then came back a few days later, and is now affecting other groups as well.

    -Ben
  • problem

    Ben Burnett replied on August 11, 2008 21:59 to the problem "gmail has been down for 3+ hours" in Google:

    Ben Burnett
    I had the same problem, it came back but then takes forever or fails again whenever Iclick, so it still isn't 100% yet, but getting better I hope.....
    Do you think this solves the problem? Mark it as solved
  • question

    Ben Burnett asked a question in LinkedIn on July 11, 2008 14:28:

    Ben Burnett
    Can identical groups be combined on LinkedIn?
    Can identical groups be combined?

    I have found 9 identical groups for Iowa State Alumni (and at least 6 Minnesota groups and 3+ Iowa Groups) using the new group search feature. I am in process of joining and contacting these group leaders to see if we can all join into a single group and get their approval and buy-in. Is there a way to do this? if all the group owners agree, It seams like this would be advantageous to both the users and LinkedIn to reduce overlapping groups and clean-up the site a bit.

    Thanks,
    --Ben Burnett
  • problem

    burnettb317 reported a problem in LinkedIn on June 03, 2008 18:47:

    burnettb317
    Is the Export Link on LinkedIn Groups is Gone.
    I just noticed that the Export Link on LinkedIn Groups is Gone. Managers now have no way of getting at this functionality. I found the URL to use from my history, it's:

    http://www.linkedin.com/groupMembersE...

    but it doesn't work, I just takes me back to my LinkedIn Home page.... I assume this is another way to limit people/groups from using competing sites with their groups, I just last week exported the list and invited members to join a yahoo discussion group, since LinkedIn doesn't provide this functionality, I've been doing my groups as a mix of both LinkedIn+Yahoo which I think works well. apparently they didn't think so. or perhaps they got complaints from people I invited or something and felt this was the best way to limit the behavior. but you can still cut-n-paste the member list one page at a time to get the info...

    any comments? LinkedIn, is this a temporary thing? is the functionality coming back? why did you remove this?

    --Ben Burnett (ben.burnett.ws or www.burnett.ws)