I was asked today to contribute to a collaborative Article on Linkedin, based on Linkedin Pulse and AI. The article was called "How do you assess IT outsourcing vendor reliability?"
The request looks like this when you get to your LI homepage
I wonder how real the statement "... you're one of a few experts invited to add ..."is. Is this part of LinkedIn's AI selecting potential contributors? That a good use for it I guess. So I checked with my colleagues
It's easy to contribute to the collaborative article on Linkedin
Intrigued by this request from Linkedin I checked out where this would lead. Apparently this feature is part of LI Articles, more specifically a collaborative article, somehow powered by AI and the Linkedin community. It was quite clear how to start contributing to the article.
So I took some time to contribute, as I think this could be a great chance to share my expertise and be visible in an alternative way to my network.
Your contributions are promoted in other's LI feeds
Apparently, and logically as well, your contributions will be used to appear in the LinkedIn feeds of others in your network. And that of course is great! As it allows others:
to see that you're sharing knowledge with others, so do take time to come up with proper contributions
a reminder of what your expertise is when they check it
and that could of course lead them to interact with your contribution, showing it to others
Others cannot just contribute
Apparently my colleague said after clicking on this notification:
he could see the full article with all contributions
but he could NOT contribute
Your contribution will be buried
After getting back to the page (to try see if an error would resolve itself), I noticed that my contributions weren't visible anymore. They were buried in the the "See more contributions"
I actually had to click that button and another "see more contribution" button to see my contribution at the bottom of the list.
Tip for Linkedin: find a better way to show case the contributions that get buried.
Probably there is a limitation on your contribution
As I took it seriously, I wanted to contribute to each statement. However I could not add a contribution to the final 2 (of 7) sections. It kept giving me this error, also after several refresh and getting back to the page:
What is LI's endgame with this article? I wonder what Linkedin will make of this, maybe in sometime I will get a notification pointing me the result of the collaborative article. Or will it stay like it is?
This is worth my own full blog!
So since I got blocked by Linkedin to provide my views on the other points, I of course will write my own blog about it by: - reusing the article statements on Linkedin
- my contributions
- and of course ChatGPT's power to help me summarise ;)
I think a Linkedin collaborative article doesn't allow you to contribute more than 5x, because I got the same error again at another article when trying to submit the 6th contribution.