Professional Connections with Linkedin Bloggers

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I’ve just taken on responsibility for a Linkedin Bloggers, a Yahoo! group devoted to supporting bloggers and would-be bloggers who are members of the professional online connections service, Linkedin.

I’ve been a member of Linkedin

for quite a while. Having recently started to use the service more

actively, I discovered a Yahoo! group which is dedicated to helping

Linkedin members connect more effectively: it’s called My Linkedin Power Forum or MLPF as we have come to call it.  The creator and  moderator of MLPF, Connecticut based master networker  Vincent Wright, explained to me on a Skype

call today that the ‘power’ bit is, as is stated in the first paragraph

on the home page of the site, ‘to help Linkedin users to power up their

networking in order to do business better’ .

At Vincent’s initiative, a number of other Yahoo groups have been

established for Linkedin members, including one devoted to blogging.

Serendipitously, I had been thinking about establishing a Yahoo! group

for business bloggers and had emailed Vincent about this just as he was

setting up Linkedin Bloggers! So rather than duplicating efforts, I put

my hand up to take responsibility for the Linkedin Bloggers group.

The Linkedin Bloggers group’s purpose complements that of MLPF and other groups such as the Linkedin Innovators group, or LinkedInnovators, to which I also belong. .

The aim is for Linkedin Bloggers

to attract Linkedin members who are already experienced and even expert

bloggers (my Linkedin network already includes some very well known

names in the blogosphere) and also - and very importantly from my point

of view - Linkedin members who are not yet blogging and want to find

out more about it, how they would go about it etc, in a friendly,

professional and non-hyped, setting.

And for anyone who is interested but not yet a member of Linkedin, membership of Linkedin

is still formally in beta (although I think the system is very mature)

and membership is currently free. Anyone in business who is interested

in re-connecting with their past and current professional network and

expanding it would do well to look at how Linkedin might work for them.