Great Post!
John Marrett
Helping mid-sized organizations increase sales and improve customer service since 1993 | #LinkedInLocal
Several bloggers I follow have mentioned receiving LinkedIn messages saying Great Post! … and that’s all! After seeing this comment many times and seeing it was a bit slow on Baker Street today, I put on my deerstalker hat, grabbed my pipe and magnifying glass … and then went about doing some detective work!
Consulting Dr. Google was a bust: all I found was complaints about LI bloggers getting seemingly random messages saying Great Post … but Dr. Google had no answers for me.
I also found several Pulse articles about Great Post … but none had the answer I was looking for. Next stop: LinkedIn’s Help. Doing a search for “great post” gave me a clue: it is apparently in LinkedIn somewhere, not some external app no one knows about yet… From the LinkedIn forums:
Response from LinkedIn,
Thanks for the screenshot. This is a new feature included in the new LinkedIn app. When on the new app, if you receive a notification about a connection that posted a long-form post, you will be prompted with a "Reach Out" button.
If you click on it, it will start a chat with the poster. The chat will have by default written "Great post!", but this can be edited before sending.
I hope this information helps to clarify what happened.
But where was this Reach Out button the LinkedIn Customer Service Rep mentioned on the forum? I couldn’t find it anywhere:
- LinkedIn for Android
- LinkedIn Pulse for Android
- LinkedIn Connected for Android
Next stop: LinkedIn Support. They led me to the source: the LinkedIn Mobile App!
Updates from your connections appear on the Your Network Brief tab (it’s a new app so names may vary according to the version being used). If someone has posted a new blog entry, they will be listed here.
If you press Send Message, the Great Post! message appears. The sender has a chance to modify before sending … but it appears as if most don’t! And for frequent bloggers, that is the problem: which post is the sender referring to?
? John Marrett 2015
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I’ve been in sales, marketing and CRM consulting for over 20 years. I write occasional articles and suggestions about issues I have found in LinkedIn.
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8 年Great post! :) Thanks for the insight John - now I know! Warmly/ Robert Wright.
Helping mid-sized organizations increase sales and improve customer service since 1993 | #LinkedInLocal
9 年Just to add to the "Great Posts!" debacle, our friends at LinkedIn also added in an anniversary "Say Congrats" button to the LI Mobile Apps. It sends a message that says "Congrats on the anniversary! Hope you're doing well"!
Thxs for the explain @John Marrett makes more sense now. Thought it odd. I have received one with text! As anyone can send me a message on Linkedin, I did not pick up on this. Appreciated.
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9 年Thanks John Marrett. This has been driving me crazy! I started receiving "Great Post" messages in my Inbox. With no added clarification as to which posts they referred to. This happened for 2 posts. Then it started coming with the link to the posts. Still not great. LinkedIn, if you're listening, please fix this so that it shows up DIRECTLY on our posts. This gives the giver of the comment the proper acknowledgement!