No central theme to this post, just 5 ponderings I toss around in my head. Perhaps you have some to add (call to action, eh?).
With so many changes to LinkedIn in 2023 (>150), why not just redesign the user interface completely, better to have done so earlier in the year? Yes, confusion would ensue, but it always does. In the exasperated words of a recent LinkedIn coaching client, “How are we supposed to know how to use LinkedIn best with all these small changes? Who has the time to learn all this stuff?” (I hear the ikigai of my tribe of LinkedIn coaches, do you?)
How much AI is already packed into LinkedIn without our really knowing it? I, for one, do not want my hard-earned thoughts and content to become part of AI’s food chain, and have indicated so in a footer on every page of my blog/website, so LinkedIn, are you honoring that? Thanks to The Writer’s Guild for their guidance and wording.
Why does the default view in our Home page feed go to “Top,” instead of giving us the ability to make the default our own choice of that or “Recent?” I’d rather be “on top” of the most recent posts, much more rewarding in my experience than relying on an ever-changing algo to choose what it thinks is “Top” for me. Easy fix, LinkedIn, so please give us that choice to stick as our personal default in a dropdown, until we change it. For me, I’d set it to “recent” permanently!
Can we get spellcheck applied to all items everywhere we post on LinkedIn, especially our personal profile sections, since we get it in some places (like Newsletter articles and messages), so why not all places? I am a repeat offender of typos in my posts and comments, for example, only to have to go back, correct them, and carry the scarlet letters “edited” in that post. Perhaps add “Read Aloud” too, from Mother Microsoft?
Finally, can LinkedIn and WordPress play nice and assure me that all posts, such as this and almost 2500 I have prewritten for LinkedIn, actually posted at 800 am as I scheduled them? Several times every month my post fails to get from WordPress to LinkedIn. Why? WordPress blames LinkedIn. Guess who LinkedIn blames? I blame you both, so can you fix the code and put this to rest for good?
OK, I am finished rambling, ranting, and rumbling, and I hope this will spur some of you to add your LinkedIn peeves to the comments to make this a more enjoyable experience for all of us.
Tell us what you would like to see LinkedIn do…Don’t be shy.
LinkedIn personal coach, group trainer, marketing strategist and overall evangelist, having a great time pursuing my passion of connecting professionals so they can collaborate better!
