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Changes to LinkedinGroups
If you manage a Linkedin group here are some changes they have introduced. Here is what they commnicated over an email:
Sending Announcements
In response to overwhelming demand from group managers, we have created the ability for you to send group announcements directly from your LinkedIn group to your members, via email. Your announcement will also automatically be posted as a discussion within the group so members can comment on it together.As membership in LinkedIn groups continues to explode, we hear increasing concerns from our members about how their privacy is protected. Now that we have the Announcement feature, and in response to these concerns, we have removed the ability to download or view member email addresses.
RSS Feeds into Groups
Posting news items into groups has become very popular in the past couple months. So we’ve made it even easier for you to spark discussions around news and other Web content by enabling you to add RSS and Atom feeds to your group. You can pick up RSS and Atom feeds from your favorite sites around the web. News items from your feed will automatically show up under the News tab.Managing Job-Focused Discussions
Group managers now have full control over whether to enable the jobs discussion capabilities within your group. The jobs area enables members to discuss job opportunities in these difficult economic times without cluttering the main conversation, and like all discussions it’s free.Visit your groups today
Academia.edu – The Linkedin for Academics
A team of people from Stanford and Cambridge have recently launched a website, Academia.edu, which is being billed as a "LinkedIn for academics".
4 months after launching, there are now over 30,000 academics on Academia.edu. It has 67% of 2008’s Nobel Laureates on it, and many of the world’s most well-known academics:
– Richard Dawkins – http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins
– Stephen Hawking – http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking
– Noam Chomsky – http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky
– Steven Pinker – http://harvard.academia.edu/StevenPinker
– Paul Krugman – http://princeton.academia.edu/PaulKrugman
Academia.edu does two things:
– It shows every academic around the world in a tree diagram, displayed according to their departmental and university affiliations.
– It enables academics to find out the latest research in their area – the latest people, papers and talks.
The goal is for Academia.edu to eventually list every academic in the world — Faculty Members, Post-Docs, Graduate Students.