Friday, January 23, 2015

Can Social Media Agencies Endorse Linkedin's Open Platform?

By Paula Hess


It wasn't until last year that LinkedIn gave users the ability to publish their own content on the website. Fortunately, this move proved to be a tremendous success, as 330 million users were not only given access to strong tools but made the most out of them. Of course, expansion is never a bad thing, especially when it comes to businesses which social media agencies actively use. For those who are curious as to when this expansion will come, it seems to have happened just recently.

LinkedIn, as it's been reported, has expanded its blogging - or publishing - platform up so that all English-speaking countries in the world can access to it. As stated earlier, 330 million people had access to it; this has increased by 230 million. As a result, it's easy to see that there is a greater chance of interaction that stands to be seen. Seeing as how several businesses and industries can be spoken about, under LinkedIn, this bit of news is made that much stronger.

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.

As you can see, there's plenty of good that can come from the utilization of LinkedIn. This is especially true now, seeing as how more and more people stand the chance of using the platform for greater levels of engagement. Of course, the success of this development must be surveyed in time. Even though it's early to say if this will yield high results, based on past successes, I'd like to think that one would be safe in assuming that stronger results can rise to the surface.




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