Request to Join LinkedIn Groups Emails

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We note that:

1 Owners are spending tens of millions of hours annually on an unpaid basis to create, promote, shape and manage their community groups on LinkedIn.
2 This provision of free time has resulted in millions of members joining LinkedIn and represents a massive financial benefit to the private shareholders of LinkedIn Corporation.
3 The vast majority of the owners of the largest communities have owned those communities since groups were first launched in September 2008. At that stage, all owners were given two critical access rights: the right to view and export the emails of all their members; and the right to search and view a complete member directory at no cost.
4 LinkedIn Corporation has now withdrawn each of those access rights, most recently by preventing community owners from viewing the email addresses of those requesting to join their groups.
5 Checking email addresses is a fundamental step in the application process for tens of thousands of professional bodies, alumni networks and others with restricted membership.

We believe that, had community owners been aware that LinkedIn Corporation would unilaterally withdraw these access rights without consultation, few of them would have devoted as much time to managing their communities or encouraged as many of their contacts to join those communities.

We therefore urge LinkedIn Corporation to resume the display of new member email addresses to those group owners that are willing to commit formally that they will respect the privacy of the members of their own communities.

326 Signatures

  • Dan B
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Sponsorship Insights Group
    • No of members of this group
    • 6,300
  • Todd H
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Fashion Retailers
    • No of members of this group
    • 12,000+
  • roii p
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Crowdsourcing for Entrepreneurs and Investors
    • No of members of this group
    • 4000
    • Comments
    • having access to my members emails is vital
  • Brian O
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • PartnerPoint
    • No of members of this group
    • 15000
  • Oscar Hector C
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Oportunidades Laborales en Argentina
    • No of members of this group
    • 27000
  • Frank De R
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • BNI
    • No of members of this group
    • 8,000+
  • Vithal D
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • vcSyndicate
    • No of members of this group
    • 2000
  • Akhtar
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Serious Business Persons
    • No of members of this group
    • 2,270
    • Comments
    • В
  • Doron
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • MusciPAL
    • No of members of this group
    • 6000
  • Rob B
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Online Marketing nederland
    • No of members of this group
    • 9769
  • Jorge A
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • UCI Alumni
    • No of members of this group
    • 6449
  • Marc F
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Blue: The Business Network
    • No of members of this group
    • 30,000
    • Comments
    • I request the email addresses be reinstated. It's required to qualify and contact new members.
  • Ian D
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Classic MCI Users' Group
    • No of members of this group
    • 7,000 +
  • Alexander J
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • WiMax channel
    • No of members of this group
    • 3000
  • Mario D
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Frozen Food
    • No of members of this group
    • 1,228
  • Rakesh R
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • cxo
    • No of members of this group
    • 25000
  • Pommee
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • CPM
    • No of members of this group
    • 5000+
  • Kees K
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Bed & Slaap Professionals Benelux
    • No of members of this group
    • 134
  • Ron D
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • shipping netrwork 3000+members
    • No of members of this group
    • 3000 plus
  • Ross S
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Defense Industry Network
    • No of members of this group
    • 5200
    • Comments
    • В
  • Charles W
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Novell Alumni
    • No of members of this group
    • 4377
    • Comments
    • This is a fundamental change that affects the ability to run a quality group. I strongly urge that the email address be restored.
  • Yaser A
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Alternative Investments
    • No of members of this group
    • 9460
  • Richard C
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • PM Forum
    • No of members of this group
    • 3700
  • Laurent J.V. D
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Sales Best Practices
    • No of members of this group
    • 61 291
  • Martin L
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Finance Club
    • No of members of this group
    • 120,000
  • Michael C
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Social Media Marketing
    • No of members of this group
    • 115,000+
    • Comments
    • I run one of the most tightly moderated large groups on LinkedIn. I have invested over 3 years of time and cannot even contact members of my own group because I have no way of identifying all the members. This is a much greater issue than 'spam control'. It is a fundamental management issue which LinkedIn should leave in the hands of competent proven group managers.
  • Coenraad de Vos van S
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Coenraad de Vos van Steenwijk
    • No of members of this group
    • 13000
  • Michael S
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • The Executive Suite
    • No of members of this group
    • 200000
  • Paul H N
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Intel Alumni Association (IAA)
    • No of members of this group
    • 11,610
  • Jean-Baptiste A
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Rйseau Polytechnique de Grenoble
    • No of members of this group
    • 3756
  • Steve E
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • RIT Alumni Group - Rochester Institute of Technology
    • No of members of this group
    • 8973
  • Bruce S
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Haverford College Worldwide Alumni & Haverford Bryn Mawr Bi-College Alumni
    • No of members of this group
    • 3500
    • Comments
    • Linked In needs to create an authorized group owner status to identify trustable group owners
  • Matt G
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Austin High-Tech
    • No of members of this group
    • 12,975
    • Comments
    • LinkedIn cares nothing for the people who freely give of their time to make LinkedIn the most useful.
  • Christian O
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Computational Biology
    • No of members of this group
    • 3344
  • Dave I
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Event Peeps
    • No of members of this group
    • 26600
    • Comments
    • Would love to have opt in access to emails, it's our groups helping LinkedIn Grow.
  • Adam g
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Healthcare Technology Alliance
    • No of members of this group
    • 8,900
  • Ram K
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • IIT Bombay Alumni Group
    • No of members of this group
    • 5600
  • Robert D
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • High Performance and Super Computing
    • No of members of this group
    • 7400
  • Danny A
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Python Community
    • No of members of this group
    • 14,149
  • Robert K
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Database Marketers
    • No of members of this group
    • 10600
    • Comments
    • Once again, it is simply the case that a corporation takes the sweat of others and profits from it.. I do not see myself being interested in maintaining my groups now that all ability to contact to them has been removed...
  • Murilo R
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • EAESP-FGV ALUMNI
    • No of members of this group
    • 3313
  • Jared Z
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Rhode Island School of Design Alumni
    • No of members of this group
    • 3,969
    • Comments
    • seeing email addresses is crucial to my being able to check for valid alumni email accounts
  • Lewis H
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Sports Industry Network
    • No of members of this group
    • 35,000
    • Comments
    • В
  • Steve T
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • BPGroup
    • No of members of this group
    • 6030
    • Comments
    • I am actively now looking for alternatives. The 18 year old BPGroup.org works on the basis of trust - it seems that LI management doesn't.
  • Geoffrey S
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Stanford Business School Alumni Association
    • No of members of this group
    • 2700
    • Comments
    • We also want the "pre-approved" email upload back to help us approve members.
  • Mark S
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • JobAngels
    • No of members of this group
    • 18,500
  • Jeff T
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Kenan-Flagler LinkedIn Group
    • No of members of this group
    • 5,463
    • Comments
    • Including emails is a critical function of managing my group. It doesn't hurt, and actually helps LinkedIn to give Administrators this information
  • Lee K
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Online Marketing Network
    • No of members of this group
    • 20,000
    • Comments
    • В
  • Ezequiel V
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • Ezequiel Vidra
    • No of members of this group
    • 9200
    • Comments
    • Emails are needed for quality control
  • Paul N
    • Name of largest owned LinkedIn group
    • North Carolina State Alumni University Alumni Group
    • No of members of this group
    • 7,497