beBee Is Growing While LinkedIn Is Shrinking. Coincidence? I Think Not.

This Kind Of Says It All

A couple days ago, I received an email from Samantha Bailey who is a brilliant LI analyst over in jolly old England. Sam has predicted with scary accuracy most the stuff that has been happening to LinkedIn and its members over the past few years since the downhill slide started culminating with the acquisition of LI by Microsoft.
Slowly and steadily the enchantment with LI, especially among the business prospectors and paid members is now, I would say, every bit the equal as the outrage that all the non-influencer writers felt all throughout 2015.
But the writers knew, that even if the Pulse publishing platform disappeared completely, which it more or less has, that they could always maintain contact with their followers, by going back to their web sites or WordPress sites and linking their posts to their home page like they used to do before Pulse came along.
But for the business prospectors, it was a whole different kettle of fish.
The link Sam Bailey sent me is a very articulate and well-reasoned attack on the new LinkedIn platform and all the design defects that are now present in it.
}https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-letter-ceo-jeff-weiner-re-arrogance-linkedin-james-bliwas

I urge you to read this and repost it. And if you are someone who is holding on to LinkedIn because of the substantial investment in time and energy you have made in it, realize that this all may be in the process of being negated by those old LinkedIn chestnuts of ineptitude, apathy, and neglect.
Nobody can really understand why Linkedin keeps on making things more difficult for its users to achieve success through their networks.
I’m not sure LinkedIn really understands why itself. Hence Mr. Bliwas’ letter to LI's CEO, Jeff Weiner.

BeBee Is Quickly Becoming The Logical Alternative

Joining beBee Does Not Necessarily Involve Quitting LinkedIn

Nor should it. In this day and age, you need to have a presence on as many sites as you can that will give you access to the people you want to reach.
Personally, as a blogger, I find that posting on beBee and then using their link tools is actually a very easy and effective way to stay in touch with my followers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.

“What The Hell Have You Got To Lose?”
D Trump

Anyone who is in the business of analyzing the craziness that has taken hold at LinkedIn will likely tell you that the future there is anything but bright.
And that hedging your bets is the smart play these days.
beBee is a young and steadily growing site that offers a great deal of attraction for those who are now completely frustrated with LinkedIn.
Is beBee the answer to your dreams? The short answer to that is simply that it’s all in what you make of it.
What it is, however, it is a site that can grow into the same sort of networking and business development powerhouse that LinkedIn is in the process of un-becoming.
A number of us are working to make that an important part of beBee’s offering and the more like-minded people we attract the sooner that potential will be realized.
LinkedIn is very obviously moving in a direction that a lot (and by a lot I mean millions) of people are not happy about.
You can stay and fight, like the bloggers did in 2015. Or you can start investigating viable alternatives, of which beBee is most certainly one.

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