Last Monday (July 20) we brainstormed an idea to launch a Canadian Social Media Professionals and Enthusiasts group on LinkedIn. The concept was to have place to discuss and accumulate knowledge on social media collectively, publish jobs and network like crazy.
Well it proved successful. We started promoting the group from July 22. Within 24 hours we had 40 members sign up; in 48 hours we had 80 members and now we are just starting on 72 hours and we are at 115 (ish) members. There are already over a dozen topics or news items published and about 20-30 comments (don’t ask me to count them).
Personally I have met three new professionals (already on Twitter because of the group, learned much about people’s feelings on Auto-DMs and had someone promote me as one of their #FollowFriday recommended people to follow.
I call that successful. By far, this is the most active group of its kind on Linkedin and I think once we hit 10 more members we are the largest of any other group of its kind.
For me though, as I said to one of my new friends on Twitter, the most important part was the activity. Comments are already coming in fast and furious and topics are being started by others (not just me) as well. Community and communication within a community are a sign of success and I think we have achieved that.
If you are interested in becoming a member, please join today as the group will like evolve into an invitation only group at some point just to ensure that the quality remains high and the noise remains low.