LinkedIn If You Make a Mistake How to Fix It

You cannot participate on LinkedIn actively for any length of time without making mistakes. Since I just had an unpleasant situation, I thought I would share it and show you how to protect yourself from further pain or issues with LinkedIn management.

My episode really isn’t all that serious and I am quite sure I actually did nothing for which LinkedIn management would be upset. But the fact is that you can do things that can cause problems without realizing it beforehand and you should be aware of the best course for correcting it.

My mistake was posting a question related to politics – to be specific a video on the health care bill. My intent was two fold, one I think this is an important issue and wanted to see what I could learn form other. Also the video was quite chilling. It was also possibly a spin on the facts, to what extent I don’t know. The second thing I wanted to accomplish is getting people involved in the issue because it is so important and will affect us all.

What happened is this discussion quickly got very ugly. I responded to posters with questions and opinions to find out what they though and believe. One specific conversation got particularly nasty (not on my part) and the person threatened to contact LinkedIn management.

At this point I realized that the question was too hot and withdrew it immediately. The second thing I did way to contact LinkedIn management and tell them exactly what had happened. I asked them to delete the question completely from the server even though I had already hidden it. I also sent them my side of the story and the note from the person who was upset. Though I would probably have been justified in complaining to LinkedIn for the nasty message I told them I was not filling any complaint – I simply wanted them to know my question got out of hand and caused some ruffled feathers and that I had pulled it as soon as I realized it was out of hand.

I tell you this story to point out to you that your best course in any bad situation on LinkedIn is to act immediately with all the parties involved and send LinkedIn management a note with copies of your handling and an explanation.

If you did something that was improper tell them you will correct it. I can assure you that this is always the best course. With regard to networking on LinkedIn this is one of the benefits of my free and paid courses; you’ll learn how to do things in ways that avoid problems and still allow you to leverage this fantastic tool called LinkedIn.

Lesson – that’ll be my last political question. (Maybe I’ll have to stick to less sensitive subjects like “sex” and “religion” …lol).

From Flyn

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