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
Just because it’s available, does it mean that we should use it? From what I can see, quite a few Linked in groups are created with good intention and then forgotten about, only to then be filled up with recruiter spam or topics that aren’t remotely relevant. You’d be adding a lot of overhead for not much gain I think.
At least here, you have a community that’s actively participated on. Maybe the mods / reps should use their profiles to push traffic here but I’d not want to look for my content in two different places.
