[Hidden-tech] LinkedIn Poll Results Summary

[Paul Stallman]

I'm obviously a computer guy and a social media guy, but I have to agree
with Claudia, I read more hidden tech discussions in my email than I ever
would on LinkedIn.  I do follow the LinkedIn group, but not as close.  For
email I read that on my phone a lot of the time.


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On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Claudia Gere <Claudia at claudiagereco.com>wrote:

>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>   ** If you did, we all thank you.
>
>
> For those of you not on LinkedIn, I've summarized the poll results below.
>
> Cheers, Claudia
>
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> Here is are the results of the vote and the 12 comments. There is also some
> demographic info (age and sex) that I haven't summarized.
>
> 22 voted to keep the traditional email list
> 9 were in favor of having the discussions on LinkedIn with an email digest.
> Here are the 12 comments.
>
> COMMENTS:
> Yes, it would be great if the "survey" text move to the bottom so preview
> would work. Yes to email, no to LinkedIn.
>
> Personally I find LinkedIn groups even more prone to the noise problem than
> email. I end up ignoring 90% of it. Also, is someone actively managing the
> LinkedIn group? It took a couple months before my membership was approved.
>
> Let me add my vote to move the annoying survey language to the bottom. This
> would make it possible to preview the mail without opening it. I used to
> get
> digest but switched to individual e-mail. In Eudora, I can hold the option
> key and get all messages that share a subject line--which means if someone
> is asking some techie question about which version of PHP to use (I don't
> know and don't care, not a programmer), I can mass-delete and move on--but
> if there's a thread I'm interested in, it's a snap to read all the posts at
> once even if they were separated by time.
>
> I Prefer Email, I use Google apps/gmail client which groups into
> conversations, if subject is of no interest I delete them. If I had to
> login
> or go elsewhere I would not do so. If you set up folders in your email
> client, email can skip the inbox and go to a dedicated folder, and you will
> not receive a blackberry notification.
>
>  For my part, email works better. I can scan quickly, hit the delete key,
> and move on. If it catches my interest, I can linger and/or respond. My
> email is always there. As people move to forums, I have to stop and think,
> gee, what forum have I not checked. Should I take time to run out (on the
> web) and check LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, yahoo groups, linux questions,
> .
> . . . Put all those lists in forums, and I just won't ever bother to check.
> Too busy.
>
> How would the digest work? By thread, or daily? (Daily works for me, but I
> can see the benefit of either). The challenge of a thread digest is that
> there may be many short threads, and people may not always change the
> topic,
> so it can get messy. Hmm...I think I've just talked myself into the daily
> digest.
>
>
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