Question and Answer: How do I post a question on LinkedIn and can I send it to everyone in my network?
I get this question from time to time from workshop participants who are getting into social media or who are trying to leverage it in new and useful ways.
If you haven’t been using LinkedIn to post questions and answer questions, below are the steps to get you started. If you have, but haven’t been engaged in recently, hopefully this will motivate you to get back into it and post your question soon:
Posting a question on LinkedIn
- Once you login to LinkedIn, click on “More…” and then select “Answers” from the popup menu.
- Once you click on Answers, you will get to the Answers Home page which has an “Ask a Question” box where you can post a brief version of your question and press the Next button.
- Once you click on the Next button, you will get to a longer form where you can enter the detailed question as well as assign the appropriate categories.
- Then you get the opportunity to send your question (via a LinkedIn generated e-mail) to your network. This form looks like an e-mail:
- If you click on the small icon to the right of the “To” field, you will be able to select up to 200 contacts from your network, all a note to the e-mail, and send it with the click of a button.
- In addition to the 200 people, your question is also posted on the Answers section, so that other people can also view it and answer it (people who happen to be interested in this topic).
I look forward to seeing your questions and answers on LinkedIn!
Other resources
- Jason Alba’s book “I’m on LinkedIn, Now What???“
- Jason Alba’s Using LinkedIn to Find a Job in Today’s Economy complimentary lunch & learn webinar recording available on the “Accomplishing more with less group” on Facebook!
Founder and principal of People-OntheGo, has more than fifteen years of experience in the software industry. Pierre has founded several companies including a financial software company in 1987 (Computer Trends, Inc.), an e-CRM company in 1995 (Imparto Software Corporation), raised several multi-million dollar funding rounds, and completed two successful acquisitions. In the last few years, Pierre's interest centered around bridging the gap between technology and people. He founded People-OntheGo to help corporate users manage e-mail and digital communication tools more effectively, and Digital-OntheGo to help organizations take full advantage of the new advances in digital video and web distribution, both part of the OntheGo Technologies L.L.C. Pierre holds a Master's degree in Engineering from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan), and has completed several Executive Education programs at the Stanford Graduate School of Management (Stanford, California).
