I had some thoughts to share today about how people misuse LinkedIn. Read more in Daily Rumination No. 13: Key Leadership ‘Learnings’ of Collaborative Synergy and Digital Disruption #AI #blockchain.
@martinfeld I still find the idea of posts on LinkedIn kind of weird. That's not what it's for -- or at least, not what I use it for. I never read them.
@devilgate they bought an entire company called Pulse to extend what they do into publishing .... different horses for different courses .... kinda like on micro blog - people use it just to run their site and don’t take part in the community?
that said - don’t disagree with @martinfield at all .... at the end of the day - people keep sinking to the lowest common denominator ... and the result is the dross he references ..... indeed, it is highly likely that some of my recent posts that I am dropping into Instagram and are then being routed into here ..... might in some views fall into this VERY category ... and that’s ok - unfollow, dislike, switch off, close ears .... I do it because it is helping me sort my ideas out for the various pillars of People First .... any single item might be taken as inane ... say this as an example and by itself - yup - pretty meaningless ... but it is contributing to my larger picture that will eventuially be seen as we step back.
@devilgate You're totally right to avoid them as they rarely say anything of value. Extended articles on LinkedIn (especially for promotional purposes) can easily be reduced to a quick post.
@JohnPhilpin I think thre can be a very fine line between what deserves an eye-roll and a compliment. Looking at the link that you provided, I can see a number of images that really have a decent message, such as 'Ageism: It's alive and well'. That stops to make people think about how they may be contributing to that issue. Memes about leadership that drag on about leadership for clicks are different.
Also yes, you make a good point about horses for courses. There's no specific rule about how you should use any given network and people can find their own value in these things.
@martinfeld re link comment thankyou .. for now that’s all I’m trying to do ... funny tho, I posted the link to the theme ... where your takeaway is what I would hope ... it might not be so immediately obvious with the link I intended to share
@JohnPhilpin Oh that’s the one that you intended! To me it really comes down to how one uses such images. If it helps to send a message or resonates with someone, then that’s fantastic. I tend to be turned off by such things because I was bombarded by over-the-top theoretical business models at university (think ‘the 4 Ps’ and ‘the 5 Rs’ and so on). It can be exhausting when people attempt to apply labels and unnecessary quantification to ways of doing things (e.g. ‘Let’s explain and standardise the creative process!’). If something is online clickbait or just plain vague, I question its value or intention.