LinkedIn Activity Stream

Have any of you gone looking for a LinkedIn post that you were sure you only added to a thread a couple of days ago, but have been unable to find?

Three useful places for us to look for past posts and comments are in: our notifications list (at https://www.linkedin.com/notifications/); and our posts and activity (at https://www.linkedin.com/in/[your_name]/detail/recent-activity/); and the groups we have joined (at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/my-groups).

However, even a search in the locations above may be fruitless, due to the short time that various categories of LinkedIn data is live (compiled by Slavin, 31 March 2016):

• Updates that you share – 30 days
• Comments and likes on other members’ updates – 14 days
• Following and joining updates – 5 days
• Recommendations and general profile updates – 14 days
• Work anniversaries and recent position changes – 30 days
• Profile photo changes – 30 days

Crikey. So LinkedIn only keeps 14 days of our post data... a mere two weeks of comments. If we want to easily keep track of what we have said online, we need to copy it out at the time, and bank it.

I often reuse my LinkedIn comments, as over time, they spark ideas which I then write blog posts from. To keep track of those ideas, I need some kind of digital notebook. But I don't like Firefox's Pocket, because it doesn't organise things well enough.

Argh! I need a truly 21st Century filofax for Windows!


Sam

• Reference: Slavin, S. (31 March 2016). How Long Updates Show in Your Recent Activity on LinkedIn. Retrieved from https://interoadvisory.com/2016/03/how-long-updates-show-in-your-recent-activity/