Managing Benchmarking Groups via LinkedIn

It has been said ... imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I discovered via Susan Scrupski and the Adoption 2.0 Council that one of LinkedIn's greatest uses is its ability to help a person manage groups where a particular focus is desired on the part of all members. Here is my recipe for group recruitment management:

1. Form a group with a professional focus
2. Promote your group via one's blog, Twitter, etc.
3. Create a LinkedIn Group with the same focus

Now here is the key point ... require everyone who seeks membership to seek membership in your LinkedIn Group. Given that most people maintain good LinkedIn profiles on their current job role and employer, you can determine if candidate members are a good fit for your group.

In my case ... we have a Corporate Collaboration Benchmarking Council; and we want to insure that potential members fit our desired profile. LinkedIn makes it very easy to obtain this information.

Comments

[Tony Karrer]

I do this as well for my local CTO group. However, we ended up using Ning as well because we needed to manage events - our monthly meetings.