{"id":518,"date":"2007-07-15T17:48:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T21:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/07\/15\/marc-freedmans-linkedin-question\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T12:59:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T19:59:26","slug":"marc-freedmans-linkedin-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/07\/15\/marc-freedmans-linkedin-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Freedman&#8217;s Linkedin Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/answers\/using-linkedIn\/ULI\/67390-5444337\">Marc really lays out what he thinks about the current state of Linkedin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>1)  NO SERVICE.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2) BUSINESS MEMBER? \u2013 STILL NO SERVICE. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>3)  BAD DESIGN.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>4) RELEVANCY.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A little bit too harsh perhaps, but I&#8217;ll I&#8217;d add some constructive suggestions to his list:<\/p>\n<p>A)  Data cleansing &#8211; Linkedin should make it a priority to combine duplicate accounts as they are disrespectful to a user when they are forced to view and interact with dead accounts. They should also make the last login date viewable for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p>B)  Explain and put focus on the value of endorsements and competencies over company brands and job titles and prioritize them accordingly. I was at a dinner party recently and overheard a woman say &#8220;those endorsements don&#8217;t mean anything who knows who wrote that stuff.&#8221; Linkedin has failed to promote what I thought was it&#8217;s most valuable asset and make it a driver of usage, this is unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>Linkedin needs to take drastic action to improve it&#8217;s customer service and data quality. They should also leverage it&#8217;s most valuable assets like endorsements of former co-workers more wisely amongst users who do not currently utilize them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Marc really lays out what he thinks about the current state of Linkedin: 1) NO SERVICE. 2) BUSINESS MEMBER? \u2013 STILL NO SERVICE. 3) BAD DESIGN. 4) RELEVANCY. A little bit too harsh perhaps, but I&#8217;ll I&#8217;d add some constructive suggestions to his list: A) Data cleansing &#8211; Linkedin should make it a priority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change-management","category-customer-experience"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}