Good points. This blog post was originally written back when LinkedIn had a News board within groups specifically for news and blog posts. Worst mistake I’ve seen LinkedIn make was removing that group functionality. Their new news feature works for larger companies but does nothing for small businesses.

Thanks for sharing your comments.

Sean

I would only disagree with sharing blogs to groups without some very strong proviso’s.

I would hesitate publishing your Blog to a group without first checking that founder/admin allowed it (of course EVERYONE reads group rules, don’t they?) & if necessary, also ask permission directly with the group owner/moderators that they want you doing that there. If you haven’t got visibility in the group for real interaction, I would think asking this premature & presumptuous.

While in an ideal world people would only join groups where what they write is relevant and appreciated, plus the quality of that blog would be evident (& not an ad-word monetized mess) and in an ideal world people like yourself, even if they used the ‘Share To Groups’ function, actually do go into, & contribute to those groups – the reality is far from that, so far I would say Blog promotion posts as you suggest, would only be welcome in:

a) A badly moderated group, where value (to everyone and so to you too) is reduced significantly by the sheer volume of exactly what you’re suggesting people do, and much worse (straight spam)
b) The group is well managed and the topic of your group so relevant & your blog posts so appreciated, you stand out in the group as someone who adds value to the group. I guarantee you that will not be the case if more than say 40-50% of your group interaction is shared Blog articles.

Personally, unless someone is an absolute regular contributor of intelligent and two way discussion, a commenter and well recognized in the group, sharing blog posts is as rude as you can get without actually spamming something like a sales page, money scam or MLM.

Regards

Rowena

Thank you,

Jack

Thanks for reading. For RSS you simply need to select a reader and then remember to check it once or twice a week.

Sean

Glad to be of service. I’m an insurance person as well so hopefully some of what I write hits home. If you’re interested I wrote the “Insurance Brokers Guide to LinkedIn” which is available on my blog at http://www.socialmediasonar.com/book.html.

Sean

Thanks for the comments.

When you are in the Answers section click on a category of questions. On the right side you below the different links for the category you will see text that says “subscribe to question in…” There is also a RSS icon. click on it and it will allow you to select a RSS reader. Then whenever new questions are asked it updates your Reader with the new feed.

I use “My Yahoo” but you can also use a Google reader and some others.

Sean