Comments on: LinkedIn: Why Join Groups? and How to Do It. http://www.socmedia101.com/2009/05/linkedin-why-join-groups-and-how-to-do-it/ Social Media Tips and How-To's for Beginners Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:59:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mark Sherrick http://www.socmedia101.com/2009/05/linkedin-why-join-groups-and-how-to-do-it/comment-page-1/#comment-374 Mark Sherrick Tue, 12 May 2009 02:16:48 +0000 http://www.socmedia101.com/?p=443#comment-374 If you do join a group, give it time - a lot of the groups don't have tons of people in them, so they aren't as active as most message boards, or even some Ning groups. If a group is REALLY active, still, give it time to see if the activity is actually related to the group topic. I've found LinkedIn groups to be a crapshoot....no more than any other forum for discussion of course. They're getting better, for sure. Hopefully they'll be very good very soon. If you do join a group, give it time – a lot of the groups don’t have tons of people in them, so they aren’t as active as most message boards, or even some Ning groups. If a group is REALLY active, still, give it time to see if the activity is actually related to the group topic.

I’ve found LinkedIn groups to be a crapshoot….no more than any other forum for discussion of course. They’re getting better, for sure. Hopefully they’ll be very good very soon.

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