The LinkedIn Publish Feature – Two Reasons Why It Sucks

I think I got out of the wrong side of my social media bed today – #grumpy

If you’ve been anywhere near LinkedIn in recent weeks you’ll have noticed that pretty much everybody is now ‘taking advantage’ of their new(ish) publishing feature. When once you might have visited LinkedIn to look for a job, or get in touch with someone, now…LinkedIn is all over the place.

So – in a half arsed attempt to put myself in a better mood and get this off my chest, here are my two reasons why LinkedIn’s publish feature sucks.

1 – It’s relentless, the online equivalent of being repeatedly hit over the head with a sock full of marbles #grumpystreetfight. The torrent – and that is how LinkedIn feels to me currently, a torrent, it’s overwhelming. I’m not waving, I’m drowning.

2 – It makes LinkedIn feel like a badly laid out supermarket. I hate it when I go shopping and those damn marketing types have moved the apples, or switched the beer and the nappies around. I can’t find anything anymore #grumpyshopper. Currently – the same goes for LinkedIn, it’s all over the place, confused. Has someone given the marketing department the keys to the restricted meds cupboard again?

Fear not – it’s not all doom and gloom. My friend Gautam Ghosh sent me this link on how to mute the endless stream of notifications. Warning – this helpful hint has been posted on the LinkedIn publish platform!

Looking on the bright side – after a start like this, today can only get better, right?

End It

Finish is part of my New Year Evolution. To me it means both complete stuff, and end stuff that isn’t cutting it anymore.

Since February 2009 I’ve run a LinkedIn group called ‘Is Bad Behaviour Killing Big Business?’. Over time we’ve had loads of good conversations – done some wonderful networking and sparked some useful creative ideas together. And then, sometime around the end of 2011, I lost the drive to continue curating the group. Early in 2012 I wrote to all the participants about the state of the group and a few people encouraged me to keep on going. I tried – and the moment has passed, the love is lost.

About ten days ago I wrote to all the members again, this time to inform them of my decision to delete the group. I’ve concluded that the last thing the world needs is a dormant LinkedIn group, though to be honest with the amount of spam on there maybe a quiet refuge ain’t so bad eh? But seriously folks – you can’t engage with everything, at least not effectively. So today I have deleted ‘Is Bad Behaviour Killing Big Business?’

Finish is part of my New Year Evolution. To me it means both complete stuff, and end stuff that isn’t cutting it anymore. What can you end?