LinkedIn Answers

What's up with LinkedIn?

Submitted by Mike Allton on Fri, 02/15/2013 - 10:00am

Last September, I wrote a summary of the major developments LinkedIn had implemented to that point in 2012. Entitled, "Is the LinkedIn Business Experience Getting Better or Worse," I suggested that most of the changes to that point were definite improvements, with the possible exception of the new Notification system that was sure to generate a lot of spam. Not long after writing that post, LinkedIn initiated the new Endorsement system and it seems like things have gone downhill from there. Let's take a look at what LinkedIn has done in the last five months and you can judge for yourself.

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Quora introduces bloggers to over 500,000 readers

Posted 17 weeks 1 day ago.

Right on the heels of LinkedIn announcing that it would be canceling the LinkedIn Answers service as of January 31st, Quora, the alternative Question & Answer service, has announced some major improvements and developments. Namely, Quora users will now have full blogging capability within Quora.

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LinkedIn Answers - will you miss them?

Posted 17 weeks 2 days ago.

For some time, LinkedIn has offered a question and answer forum called LinkedIn Answers at http://www.linkedin.com/answers. Similar to Quora, LinkedIn users can pose questions or provide answers to other user's questions and demonstrate their expertise. It's a service that has received mixed feedback, certainly, but LinkedIn has decided to stop providing the service by January 31. Will you miss it?

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