paulidownunder's dashboard

I agree with Eric. I don't want URL's shortened automatically. I want to see what the link is. If I want to shorten it, I can with Twhirl or something else. Or at least make it a configuration option.

LIVE HELP! It would be amazing to be able to chat live with someone empowered to actually help with a solution.

And - as a group owner, show onthe left side of my home page when someone wants to join the group. There's no indication. – VL, on September 03, 2008 17:18

I just sent an email to a group member, and there was no indication that it was sent - usually you get a note up top when the page reloads saying your message was successfully sent. I had to check my "sent messages" to verify. – VL, on September 03, 2008 16:16

1. the new groups features: you're still limiting the # of group members I can see. You've upped it to 500, but one of my groups has over 7000 members, seeing only 500 is worthless. And why can't I sort or organize them as I choose? How are they arranged anyway? It appears to go by level of connection and # of connections, which is not really the best. How about alphabetical?

As a group owner, it looks like you're putting copies of all comments and discussions in my Q&A inbox. Not necessary. Add a "groups" feature to the inbox that just shows the count. I can take it from there.

As a group MEMBER, show on the left side of my home page that there's group activity. I have to check each group individually. Yes, I see you've got it listed in the middle column text of "connections updates", but just put the count on the left side, for each group individually. Let me know if that's too rambling and not clear.

2. Q&A: get rid of the damn "best answer" crap already!!!

Some people keep posting the same dumb question over and over again. I hate to flag them and don't, but there should be some limit.

Improve the category selection for what type of question it is.

3. Invites: get rid of the canned "because you're someone I trust" and "I'd like to add you..." and replace with - "type your message here" or "explain why you want to connect here". Believe it or not, new people don't know they can, and should change it. (Another thing that would be in the LI handbook - see below).

Improve the reason list for an intro (expertise request, etc)

Not sure if you're aware of this, but as long as you and another person are both a member of ANY group, you can invite someone to connect by picking any group from the list, even if you don't share the group. I've gotten a couple of invites that way.

And I agree with the other posters - there should be a "no thanks" option that doesn't penalize the sender.

4. Being able to customize my home page and what I see on it.

Ditto on bringing back archiving. Better yet, let's just be able to delete the old stuff. It has to be clogging your servers.

5. Better communicaton with your members: Develop a basic "understanding how IlnkedIn works, getting the most from LI" handbook. For example, this 5 IDKs and you can't invite - where is that written up? Somehow I've heard about this, but new people to LI don't know and probably send out invites to get started and have their priviledges revoked. They also don't realize they are sending invites to everyone in their address book, or at the same company regardless, and that it's a canned invite that gets sent. Explain to people what happens!!

Where is an explanation of how groups work? You sent out a notice that there would be changes. How about an explanation of what they are?

Interesting, LI responds on getsatisfaction, but not when contacted or alerted to an issue via your customer service. Would ya think that's a problem????

Thanks for asking. That's serious progress!!

I almost hate to bring this up until all the removed group and other features are restored...

One thing I've thought would be useful would be a way to list the "most popular 2nd level connections" in my network. My theory is that if a lot of my colleagues, say from a job 5 years ago all know the same person, there is a high probability that I know that person too.

I scan the network changes lists, looking for people in my network that have new connections that might be someone I know, and browse through new connections lists to see if there are any familiar names, but this might be an automated way to find people that I already know and would like to add to my network.

But please fix all the things we've mentioned before starting on nice new features like this.

Group functionality !!!

To start with, simple discussion forum functionality / event management would suffice. Groups in Linkedin are either simple "affinity" groups (in another thread, someone compared it to putting a bumper sticker on your car) or they offer functionality through a third party collaborative tool.

In some cases, this makes sense. The group has a "real" world existence or an internet presence that pre-dates Linkedin. But many groups are being newly created on Linkedin and need some kind of collaborative space.

Is it really that difficult to provide? It is pretty standard on Xing and Facebook. I can't understand why Linkedin is letting these users wonder away to yahoo groups or collaborative x. Linkedin right now is like web 1.5....

I own a group with 700+ members. I was led to believe by the constant "we will be providing group functionality soon" communications that something in that direction would come. As a result I have not created a "parallel" forum.

All that came so far was a group directory..... Is something in the works or should I just go ahead an migrate users to another social networking platform?

Just ran into another "bug"...

I went to demo LinkedIn to someone on a shared computer and found myself in the middle of someone else's account.

When you log out of LinkedIn, it's a two step process. Unlike any other site I use, logging out logs you out, but leaves your personal information for the next login. If you don't click on the second blue box, the next person who uses that computer to access LinkedIn ends up inside your account!

That's absolutely a security bug and not a feature. IMHO it's a MAJOR security issue that needs to be fixed immediately.

In addition, logging in to LinkedIn from any computer should immediately and completely log you out from any other computer you might be currently logged in from.

If you're using LinkedIn from a shared computer, be it library, unemployment office, outplacement center, church, relative, or whatever, be sure you LOG OFF TWICE.

In order to resolve this issue, David Archuleta or his legal representatives can contact copyright@twitter.com with all of the appropriate details.

Thanks!

paulidownunder:
You can already report spam to Twitter via http://twitter.com/help/ .
The left-hand dropdown box includes the option spam request.

I recommend including a link to this Get Satisfaction thread so that Twitter can easily find and follow the wider discussion.

You should receive an automated email confirmation of receipt almost immediately.

As Twitter deals with help requests sequentially, and usually has a backlog, it may be several days before you receive a human reply.

Hey NancyB, cheers for that! I just requested to be the beta user :-) – paulidownunder, on August 10, 2008 04:38

HE WENT TO WORDPRESS.COM

HEY! I FOUND DAVID ON WORDPRESS.COM
THAT IS WHERE HIS BLOG WENT TO.

Hey Paul - have you tried Ping.fm... it's a great place to update piles of sited at once! – NancyB, on August 10, 2008 02:22

Hey i wonder if this is potentially a 'feature request'...

Could twitter allows users to report 'scam/spam' on potential users?

Could be something as simple as a vote button to say this is scam/spam? This would be similar to how you would comment on youtube.com.

cheers,

~paul

I just have one small feature request:

Can you synchronise the status updates on one of the following: twitter or facebook or pluxo?

I already have my accounts on those synched. So twitter updates feed facebook and pluxo, would be nice if I have linkedin synched as well. I imagine this is not very difficult...

thanks,

Paul

They now appear to shorten virtually every URL I post, which is annoying because I do not want them to shorten my URLs without asking. I wish this were a configurable option. Many times the URL conveys information about the page you are linking to and I don't want it mangled.

Is Twitter being managed, supported, and still viable?

I'm NOT impressed at all by Twitter at the moment.

Is the an alternative to Twitter that utilized SMS?

-Tom