edIn launches collaborative articles to allow users to share their insights and receive advice //
LinkedIn introduced Collaborative Articles as a way to share knowledge. This feels elevated to traditional roundup articles that feature the wisdom of the crowd, which I strongly disagree with.
Why do we care? LinkedIn touts this as a way for you to increase your following, improve your reputation and help your community. These are all possible truths, but collaboration spam is the real thing. I expect people to try to increase their visibility by “collaborating on” as many articles as they can.
What’s a LinkedIn Collaborative article? Here’s what LinkedIn says:
- LinkedIn publishes collaborative articles with the insights of the LinkedIn community. These articles are created with our editorial team as conversation starters using AI. However, they don’t include the perspectives of experts like you. So that our members can benefit from your ideas and experiences, we invite you to add your personal experience, examples, or other information directly into the articles.
LinkedIn stated that you can search for or browse articles. In the coming weeks, collaborative articles will appear in your feed as pop-up notifications. This is how the notification looks:
What it does. Let us walk through an example. Start by visiting any LinkedIn Skill Page such as Social Media.
Post is a collaborative article about how to measure influencer marketing campaign ROI. Clicking that link opens the article How to measure ROI in influencer marketing campaigns.
Under the headline, you’ll find a note: “Help unlock community wisdom with us.” You can add your insight to this AI-powered collaborative article.” Also, LinkedIn’s explanation about collaborative articles.
Scroll down to see several prompts to “Share an Example”.
Clicking to share an instance will bring up a field that provides prompts to help you get started. “Actually, I disagree with …”;” An example I’ve seen …”).
Minimum response length is 125 characters Maximum response is 750 characters
LinkedIn appears to only show one contribution per default. To see more contributions, you will need to hit Load More. Probably, the featured slot will go to the contribution with the most “Insightful”, reactions.
A new badge. LinkedIn members can get a Community Top Voice badge to recognize their skills and knowledge. This badge can be displayed on your LinkedIn profile, next to your articles.
Access is not available to all. LinkedIn stated that it will expand access over the next few months. You might have received an invite to early access today. Check your email to confirm.
Get deeper. LinkedIn’s announcement Accessing almost 10 billion years of knowledge to assist you in solving everyday work problems.
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