By Thomas E. Kenny
Until today joining LinkedIn groups has been a hit and miss endeavor. To determine what groups you wanted to join, you either had to view what groups your connections have joined or seek out one of the few web sites that attempted to list LinkedIn groups. In addition to those methods, Google was also performing a beta trial for searching LinkedIn groups.
Today LinkedIn has released a feature to be able to search within the title and description of all 90,000 groups that exist on LinkedIn.
Per LinkedIn's blog on the subject the following features exist.
1. The Groups Directory is accessible from the left navigation as well as the search drop down in the upper right part of the page.
2. Search results return groups that match, based on either the group name or a keyword in the group description.
3. Search results are sorted by group size, with the larger groups appearing at the top.
4. Groups may be filtered by category, including alumni, corporate, conference, networking, non-profit, professional, or other.
5. If you choose not to list your group in the Groups Directory, we have a setting for group managers on the Edit Group Info page.
6. To prevent abuse of the system, users may have up to 10 pending group requests at a time.
Have you ever wondered which LinkedIn group was the first? It was for fans of the podcast called "The Java Posse". This happens to be my favorite podcast. Apparently one of the developers at LinkedIn who originally developed the group feature on LinkedIn is a fan of the podcast.
Enjoy the new feature and be aware that you can only have up to 10 simultaneous pending requests to join groups.
Until today joining LinkedIn groups has been a hit and miss endeavor. To determine what groups you wanted to join, you either had to view what groups your connections have joined or seek out one of the few web sites that attempted to list LinkedIn groups. In addition to those methods, Google was also performing a beta trial for searching LinkedIn groups.
Today LinkedIn has released a feature to be able to search within the title and description of all 90,000 groups that exist on LinkedIn.
Per LinkedIn's blog on the subject the following features exist.
1. The Groups Directory is accessible from the left navigation as well as the search drop down in the upper right part of the page.
2. Search results return groups that match, based on either the group name or a keyword in the group description.
3. Search results are sorted by group size, with the larger groups appearing at the top.
4. Groups may be filtered by category, including alumni, corporate, conference, networking, non-profit, professional, or other.
5. If you choose not to list your group in the Groups Directory, we have a setting for group managers on the Edit Group Info page.
6. To prevent abuse of the system, users may have up to 10 pending group requests at a time.
Have you ever wondered which LinkedIn group was the first? It was for fans of the podcast called "The Java Posse". This happens to be my favorite podcast. Apparently one of the developers at LinkedIn who originally developed the group feature on LinkedIn is a fan of the podcast.
Enjoy the new feature and be aware that you can only have up to 10 simultaneous pending requests to join groups.
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Very informative article, Tom.
I didn't realize there were that many groups on LinkedIn. The group search feature is right on time.
Carl E. Reid, CSI