A lot of LinkedIn Groups are simply groups that exist elsewhere, e.g.,
on facebook, Meetup, etc. that want people to be able to join from
LinkedIn and display a group badge. It's part communication tool,
part publicity, part alliance forming, part personal identity. It'd
be great to make it more obvious how a LinkedIn group could tie into
Meetup alliance. Because LinkedIn groups have no landing page on
LinkedIn, in essence the Meetup alliance could be their landing page.
On Dec 31 2007, 4:09 pm, "Gary Helmling" <ghelml...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We do pull group information, such as member count and next event
> date, from other sites where we can. However, from the little I've
> seen of LinkedIn groups
> (
http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=groups_info), I haven't found any
> API documentation that would help us with this. Is there any public
> API or developer documentation on LinkedIn groups that you can point
> us to?
> LinkedIn also seems to require a website for groups, so I'm not sure
> what the current benefit would be joining an alliance as a LinkedIn
> group, rather than using the group's actual website.
> However, I've only found limited information on LinkedIn groups, so if
> you can provide additional information or details, I'd appreciate it.
> --gh
> On Dec 31, 2007 12:54 PM, tmetro+meetup...@gmail.com <tme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > meetup.g...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > There's nothing to stop LinkedIn groups participating in an alliance
> > > right now.
> > As can any arbitrary organization.
> > To clarify, I'm asking about API-level integration. Perhaps I've read
> > more into the product badges on thehttp://www.meetupalliance.com/
> > home page, but to me it implied there was integration with Facebook,
> > Myspace, Yahoo, and Google groups.
> > -Tom
