I’ve been in process of updating my information on LinkedIn and also searching for some new contacts when I got the idea to search for groups with SharePoint or Lotus in name. The results are impressive – about 50 groups about Lotus and about 100 groups about SharePoint. Does it say something? Probably not, just good to know about it.
Anyway, I still don’t understand why there is so many groups – one for admins, another for developers, users, certified people and a few of them which are locally based. But why more?
As the owner of one of the Lotus groups, Lotus Software Professionals, the problem with so many groups was Linkedin itself.
Until last week you could never search Linkedin for a group, unless it was an official one, meanign you paid linkedin for it, as some large copanies did.
Could we merge a bunch? Perhaps, no idea. Anyoen that reads this and owns a group can ask. My group has almost 1,300 Lotus people in it so I am happy about it, but it’s a lot of work sometimes.