For those who frequently use the LinkedIn Events feature, here is some good news for you! With an aim to provide more engagement options and on-topic discussions to its users, the social media platform LinkedIn is coming up with more comment engagement options within LinkedIn Events.
What are the Engagement Options?
While hosting an event or attending it, the audience can comment or react directly to a feed or on the Event page in the comment tab. What makes this feature more usable is the comments made on the events page will not generate notifications to the other event attendees. However, if you want to invite people to the conversation, just mention their names in your comment and tag them.
You can use them in the advanced comments options in-stream. The feature is in the process of being announced soon. Users will be able to see this option in the advanced comment section in LinkedIn Events.
Social media trends always keep changing. The social media platform does not stop here. LinkedIn has also launched a new feature to simply Repost option and share information with your connections.
LinkedIn Repost feature
Like Twitter, where you can Retweet any tweet that has inspired you, even LinkedIn has brought up a feature of ‘Repost’ which allows you to share information without adding a comment like you used to do earlier.
This feature gives you a chance to share a job profile with a friend who is in need with just a click. This simplifies things for you because it reduces your effort to re-share each post.
How to avail this new LinkedIn feature?
- At the bottom of every post, there is a ‘Share Prompt’.
- Click on the Share prompt and you will get the below options
- Repost
- Share it with your thoughts
- Share outside LinkedIn
- Click on Repost and your job is done
Pros and Cons of Repost
Each coin has two sides. So does this feature on LinkedIn.
Pros
- Saves Time
- Minimum efforts
- Maximum reach
- Hitting the right audience
Cons
Chris Wetherell who invented the concept of ‘retweet’ mentioned that he later regretted this feature considering the past course of events. He mentioned this because he realised how this feature amplified criticism and negativity on this social media handle.
Though LinkedIn is a different platform, the Repost option can play a major role in creating or affecting a professional image for an individual or a brand. A negative post could certainly have a considerable impact on one’s professional reputation and can be widely spread in no time.
This is a risk but it is also a strong tool for faster connectivity and the spread of information. This feature is now available to use in your profile.
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