Linkedin & Its Expanding Platform By Social Media Agencies

Posted by Hadraj Youssef On Thursday, February 26, 2015 1 Comments
By Paula Hess


LinkedIn is a website that, during the past year or so, gave users the control of posting their own content. Specifically, 330 million individuals have taken to LinkedIn in order to speak about their areas of work. What this resulted in is a broader platform, which I'm sure any and all social media agencies can see as a strong point. With that said, it seems like this website is going to broaden even further, if recent reports and stories are to be believed.

LinkedIn recently announced that it has opened its publishing platform up to all English-speaking countries in the world. What this means is that the aforementioned 330 million users has the potential to increase by 230 million. It's tremendous, to say the least, because of the types of posts shared on LinkedIn. They offer advice to those in similar fields and they cover any and all major developments to boot. Why wouldn't a concept like this prove to be useful?

It's easy to see why so many people are engaged on LinkedIn. Unlike Facebook, Twitter and other entities, LinkedIn is primarily focused on employment and the ability to connect to others in specific industries. However, it's easy to forget that this is still a social media website. As a result - and I am sure that social media agencies across the board will agree - there's still the focus on content that's made stronger because of this development.

It's easy to see that engagement can occur, on various networks, but only if the capabilities are present. This should always be the case, though, especially when considering that social media agencies rely on the engagement in question. Of course, in the case of LinkedIn, not every user has had access to this. To say that this been a problem would be an understatement. Fortunately, with this platform's expansion, firms the likes of fishbat may start to see heightened results.

It's clear that LinkedIn poses the potential to become one of the strongest channels for engagement, in general. However, it has to be utilized well, which is especially true when given the recent expansion of the website's publishing platform. Such a platform has the ability to create success, for businesses and individuals alike, but can this be done? I am sure of it, however it's difficult to say that this will be the case, especially since the development is relatively new.




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