Request to Join LinkedIn Groups Emails
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We note that:
1 Owners are spending tens of millions of hours annually on an unpaid basis to create, promote, shape and manage their community groups on LinkedIn.
2 This provision of free time has resulted in millions of members joining LinkedIn and represents a massive financial benefit to the private shareholders of LinkedIn Corporation.
3 The vast majority of the owners of the largest communities have owned those communities since groups were first launched in September 2008. At that stage, all owners were given two critical access rights: the right to view and export the emails of all their members; and the right to search and view a complete member directory at no cost.
4 LinkedIn Corporation has now withdrawn each of those access rights, most recently by preventing community owners from viewing the email addresses of those requesting to join their groups.
5 Checking email addresses is a fundamental step in the application process for tens of thousands of professional bodies, alumni networks and others with restricted membership.
We believe that, had community owners been aware that LinkedIn Corporation would unilaterally withdraw these access rights without consultation, few of them would have devoted as much time to managing their communities or encouraged as many of their contacts to join those communities.
We therefore urge LinkedIn Corporation to resume the display of new member email addresses to those group owners that are willing to commit formally that they will respect the privacy of the members of their own communities.
1 Owners are spending tens of millions of hours annually on an unpaid basis to create, promote, shape and manage their community groups on LinkedIn.
2 This provision of free time has resulted in millions of members joining LinkedIn and represents a massive financial benefit to the private shareholders of LinkedIn Corporation.
3 The vast majority of the owners of the largest communities have owned those communities since groups were first launched in September 2008. At that stage, all owners were given two critical access rights: the right to view and export the emails of all their members; and the right to search and view a complete member directory at no cost.
4 LinkedIn Corporation has now withdrawn each of those access rights, most recently by preventing community owners from viewing the email addresses of those requesting to join their groups.
5 Checking email addresses is a fundamental step in the application process for tens of thousands of professional bodies, alumni networks and others with restricted membership.
We believe that, had community owners been aware that LinkedIn Corporation would unilaterally withdraw these access rights without consultation, few of them would have devoted as much time to managing their communities or encouraged as many of their contacts to join those communities.
We therefore urge LinkedIn Corporation to resume the display of new member email addresses to those group owners that are willing to commit formally that they will respect the privacy of the members of their own communities.
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Goal
300 signatures
Goal: 1,000
Latest Signatures
14 December 2015
28 November 2015
11 November 2015
298.
John T
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Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
Ethnography Forum
No of members of this group
1,200+
This change impacts my ability to effectively run a quality group, and to make the LinkedIn experience rewarding and more personal for others in the field of Ethnog
4 November 2015
297.
De H
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Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
TU/e Alumni Network
No of members of this group
7000
as a manager of a group it is absolutely neccessary to be able to contact the persons who want to join the group
23 October 2015
17 October 2015
295.
Jane T
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Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
Green Marketing
No of members of this group
2097
thank you for creating this petition. Group managers do a great job moderating groups; their ability to do so, and maintain the integrity and quality of groups just got
2 October 2015
26 September 2015
26 September 2015
2 September 2015
291.
Martin S
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Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
Tellabs Alumni
No of members of this group
1500+
I am not real happy with linkedin on this subject. Luckily, I have a seprate database with all of the group memebrs addresses.
30 July 2015
25 July 2015
289.
Matt G
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Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
Austin High-Tech
No of members of this group
12,975
LinkedIn cares nothing for the people who freely give of their time to make LinkedIn the most useful.
16 July 2015
11 July 2015
23 June 2015
7 June 2015
6 June 2015
284.
Neil H
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Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
Open University Business School Alumni Network
No of members of this group
4600
Please don't make management of my group more difficult or time consuming, or I simply won't be able to manage to the same standards as c
29 May 2015
283.
Richard Mw
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Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
Public Relations Professionals
No of members of this group
16,295
Eliminating emails defeats the purpose of only connecting to people you know, or have a business interested to connect with outside of LinkedIn. Linked
17 May 2015
17 May 2015
15 May 2015
280.
David K
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Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
Retail Banking Network
No of members of this group
11,000
I maintain tight moderation, limit adverts, and regularly survey members on what they want from the group. They want newsletters and industry content. I try to
12 May 2015
4 May 2015
20 April 2015
277.
Christophe P
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Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
International Network of Social-Eco Entrepreneurs
No of members of this group
6965
I created the INSE Group on 26/09/2007
19 April 2015
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