As you probably know, we have a sister LinkedIn group to this site called the SharePoint Community Group. Paul C suggested a while ago that we should find ways to perhaps bring the discussions into here. (We already do the other way with blogs). There are many discussions started in that group, but not many responses. However, on here we have fewer discussions, but more comments. It’d be nice to bring them together to get the best of both worlds.
LinkedIn has a developer API and I am the group manager, so theoretically, anything is possible! Any ideas of cool ways to join the two up ? There are several potential areas to integrate, namely, members, discussions, blogs, events …
Suggest away and if you want to help, even better!
To view the LinkedIn group :
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/SharePoint-Community-Group-43166?trk=my_groups-b-grp-v
Mark, I’m riding the fence on this one.
I can agree with Theresa’s concern. While this site as we know is specifically dedicated toward those with some remote interest in SharePoint, LinkedIn is broader and more public facing. Therefore the comments and discussions take on a more public aspect.
For example, I saw a post from a guy in the SharePoint group about a job. I know a friend who is looking for a BA job related to SharePoint. Without thinking, I just commented on the job discussion and asked temp or perm and if remote was an option. The next day, I noticed my boss had a new connection three updates from my comment and thought, “Oh boy, that doesn’t look good”. So while it was harmless, they may be some that feel the need to keep things separate.
Integration would be really nice, because I’ve seen post in one or more groups within the big community group that are duplicates and then come here seeing people ask the exact same question. Thought that in and of itself may be an educational aspect, it would be nice to know I can go to one location and gather information. I must say I like this site better than LinkedIn for that aspect.
Just my thoughts…
