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5 Tips for Effectively Managing a LinkedIn Group Are you currently managing your own LinkedIn group? Are you considering launching a LinkedIn group? Keep reading for five tips on how to better manage LinkedIn groups. Why Start a LinkedIn Group? Building a LinkedIn group around a specific cause or niche topic can provide many business benefits. You could: Build more awareness with your target marketsPosition you and/or your company as an industry thought leaderNurture valuable industry relationshipsShowcase and highlight your own thought leadership contentGenerate interest and inquiries for your companyConvert group members to subscribers and advocates for your brand As you can see, there are many good reasons to start a LinkedIn group, but it can be very helpful to have some guidelines for managing a successful group after you launch. If you’re unsure about best practices for launching a successful LinkedIn group, you may want to revisit these Tips for Launching and Building a Thriving LinkedIn Group for the basics. Be careful about this.

LinkedIn unifies search to push people to content | Internet & Media LinkedIn today released a new unified search experience to help people dig faster, deeper, and more intelligently through its growing collection of professional content. "We're bringing all of the goodness on LinkedIn -- people, companies, jobs, and groups -- and putting it all together in one place," Bradley Mauney, product lead for identity products at LinkedIn, told CNET. After a year of behind-the-scenes design and engineering work, LinkedIn is now able to derive intent while you search. The site autocompletes queries to show suggestions, sorted by content type, as a person types in the new-and-improved, single search box atop the page. All results are returned on a compressive results page that surfaces and highlights content from across the site. The more you search, the better the engine is said to be at predicting the intent behind your queries. "Search is already a core part of our monetization model," Mauney said.

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