If you use LinkedIn much at all, you’ve seen prominent role people’s status updates are taking in spurring conversation at the professional networking site.
LinkedIn is looking for ways to improve that communication, so it’s launching what amounts to a panel of industry influencers who will be providing frequent and (hopefully) substantive updates. You can follow these pros, much as you would on
Twitter.
You can follow the updates of a new group of "Influencers" on LinkedIn.
It’s an interesting approach and the
lineup of influencers doesn’t look shabby at all. Outside the tech industry, you’ll find politicians, well-known journalists, and CEOs. Of course, you’ll find plenty of tech experts, too, including
Guy Kawasaki, Kai Fu Lee, and Tim
O’Reilly. Influencers seem to have few rules as far as what they can post: they can post regular updates or longer form pieces and series.
LinkedIn plans to expand the list and it’s looking for influencers right now, so
head over if you think you should be helping to shape the conversation on the site.
Joshua Gulick
Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to
Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote
CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for
Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for
HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.
