Tuesday 3 February 2015

How Social Media Agencies May Evaluate Linkedin's Expansion

By Paula Hess


Last year, LinkedIn gave its users the ability to publish their own posts on the social media website. To say that the response has been strong would have been an understatement, as more than 330 million people have taken advantage of this very feature. With that said, the platform could have benefited from a bit of expansion, which I'm sure any and all social media agencies can attest to. As of recent times, this ability has come into being.

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?

If you want to talk about LinkedIn, as a whole, it's important to understand the way in which it approaches business. In fact, the working world is practically the basis of LinkedIn, which makes it different from other social media websites, Twitter and Instagram included. Of course, the idea of communication will remain intact, despite this. However, social media agencies will attest to the idea that this broader publishing platform will make said communication stronger.

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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