Jennifer's dashboard

groupowner - I did look at the site and play around with the new functionality for quite awhile before posting my concerns in this forum. Yes, there is a "send message" option, but hitting that option on 50% of the new member requests to my group takes me to an email address of "null". That's a huge problem - I can't communicate with these people. Plus, I now have to click "send message" and send an individual email to each new group member vs. before I could send a bcc email to many new members at once welcoming them to the group (sometimes I get up to 100 requests a day to join my group).

I agree with many of the issues raised by linkedout above! As a Group Moderator, I have always sent a welcome email to group members, and need their email addresses to do so. With the "upgrades" to LinkedIn groups, I now cannot see email addresses of those requesting to join, and as a result, cannot direct them to the Yahoo group where we are actually communicating since LinkedIn does not offer that functionality. I realize LinkedIn may be moving towards some communication functionality within LinkedIn, but that has not yet been introduced, and now I can't communicate with these new prospective members or invited to participate in our group!!!!

This is the wrong way to go about making changes! LinkedIn didn't provide the communication functionality, so as Group Moderators many of us created a means to do so. I'd be happy to support communicating within LI in the future, but I have put a lot of time and effort into providing a current means for my group to network with each other. In one day - LI has jeopardized almost 1 year of hard work to develop a community that was proud to be associated with and originated on LI, but taken beyond the limitations of LI to really benefit it's members.

I'm a huge LI promoter and supporter, but the recent changes being made by LI show no respect or interest in their customer base, or many of their largest supporters. No feedback requested from Group Leaders prior to massive and major changes that limit or prohibit us from moving forward with our group's Mission - to build real relationships and help each other.

I am very unhappy, and this is a MAJOR change and disadvantage to my group - which has over 4,000 members on LI. The 12 people who are in the queue to join this morning now cannot be given any additional welcome or information about the group. The only thing they will get is an icon on their profile - which is not the intention of our group. Not cool at all, and not networking by any stretch of the imagination.