Welcome to LinkedIn Collabs on Whatsapp. The purpose of this group is to share links of posts on LinkedIn and notify members of good content that then other members can see, like and comment.
Getting seen on LinkedIn is probably the hardest bit about it. When you start posting your likes and comments are likely to be in low single digits, even if you have several thousand followers. It sucks, and sharing with this like minded group is one way to resolve that.
A couple of ground rules:
- No posting after 6pm in the group on any day.
- No posting on the weekends. Post all you want on LinkedIn on the weekends, by all means, just don’t put it in the group, for sanity reasons.
Given there are 25+ people in the group I recommend you silence all notifications from it.
Keep discussion and banter at a minimum and focus the discussion on LinkedIn. It’s a growing group – some chat is necessary at times, but sharing your latest thoughts on, say, the news today isn’t very relevant. Post LinkedIn post links – that’s what it’s for.
Some things that aren’t appreciated:
- Links to things that aren’t direct to LinkedIn, particularly without context.
- Hype posts, such as ‘ChatGPT search is going to kill Google’, without any evidence.
- Graphical lists of numerous AI tools you can allegedly use instead of Powerpoint etc.
- Rage posts, attacking things without clear justification. Ie, attacking the government for the UK Budget before it’s been announced.
- Posts about how much money a process made you are banned, and will lead to removal if share in the group as it stands. Ie, ‘this simple process made me £10k’ – unless it is clearly a skit.
Given I don’t want people to feel pressured into engaging with things they don’t like, I recommend that if you must create such a post, you don’t share it in the group.
And also, no obligation to like, comment or share. In a way, this is a LinkedIn engagement pod, but it’s a very useful tactic to have likeminded people actually seeing LinkedIn posts. No one will be taking score and if it’s not working for you, feel free to leave it.