Nik on Linkedin
LinkedIn is a social media platform for professionals. I joined in the late-2000s, my earliest gmail email from linkedin.com was dated 2006-08-18, although I also used to use another email address at the time.
I have a lot of friends in Tokyo who worked as headhunters, and there was no Japanese interface for LinkedIn back then. This actually made it a treasure trove for headhunters in Tokyo, as all of the Japanese professionals listed on it back then were essentially pre-filtered by their ability to use English, at least at the level of an internet application. So it was easy picking for them when looking for bilingual professionals in Tokyo.
I cannot remember if Microsoft bought LinkedIn first or LinkedIn bought lynda.com first, but I remember being a little disappointed with the user experience with LinkedIn Learning initially. I thought it was similar to the degradation in quality that I experienced with both Hotmail and Skype after Microsoft bought them. However I have to say that these days LinkedIn Learning is quite good.
I enjoy the professional tone in posts and comments on LinkedIn compared with other social media platforms. I will make an exerted effort to make more use of it going forward.
One issue I've had was I noticed my Creator mode was off, and when I clicked on it, I was surprised to see that I've failed to abide by their community policy guidelines, or have made an egregious violations in the last 12 months, or or it's LinkedIn bug.
The criteria for using Follow tools is as follows:
- You have abided by our Community Policy Guidelines
- Your account is more than 48 hours old
- You have no spam flag in the last 30 days
- You have no egregious violations in the last 12 months
I looked for emails from LinkedIn concerning notifications of violations, but I cannot find anything.