Petition to Linkedin from individual group owners requesting that the ability to download group member email addresses and the current request to join list be reinstated.

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Petition to Linkedin from individual group owners requesting that the ability to download group member email addresses and the current request to join list be reinstated.

On March 20, 2009, without prior notice, Linkedin has removed the ability to download or view member email addresses by the group managers. LinkedIn has failed to respond to hundreds of comments and requests on various groups, including the "LinkedIn Groups Product Forum" a group created by Linkedin to enter conversation with group managers (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=51082) and the SuperGroup Founders (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1204737).

We hereby request that the ability to download group member email addresses and the current request to join list be reinstated.

441 Signatures

  • Olivier Taupin
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 150,000+
    • Comments
    • Reason for signing: Because the current Announcement system does not allow the Group Managers to send Announcements to parts of their Group (i.e. Announcement of an event in a city or country), condamning the Group Managers to spam the Members not interested by the Announcement, with the risk of having such Members optout Announcement. I would be OK with LinkedIn strategy if I could have ways to send Annoucement only to parts of the Group,l something I could do when I was able to download email addresses.
  • Matt Genovese
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • Austin High-Tech
    • Comments
    • Not only has this gone unaddressed via comments on LinkedIn, but also via customer service inquiries.
  • Sebastien Deschamps
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 11,000+
    • Comments
    • Access to user information allows better cross platform interaction, online offline interaction, and group management. It creates a bond between the group members and the group organization with a different level of trust than you can find on other platforms. And many of us have uploaded our databases in the first place!
  • Francesco Principe
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 8944
    • Comments
    • В
  • Heinz Wehrli
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 11500
  • Steve Perkins
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 12,700
    • Comments
    • If you really valued Group Owners, you good folks would restore the ability to export the membership list. I can't begin to tell you how important that is to managing our newsletter mailing list. We are having to capture email addresses at the point of "request to join" which takes considerable time and now have no ability to manage who has left the community, LinkedIn has made this far more difficult for its valued Group owners. I know there has been a lot of criticism about this change from the Group Owners but we have not heard much response from management which is as much of an irritant as was the change itself. Empowering Group Owners, under a distinct TOS, with better control over how they manage their groups is very important and enhances the experience of all users and assuage the frustration of the Group Owner community.
  • Jason Donn
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 9460
  • Greg Tatton
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 5000
  • geoff wright
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 500 +
  • Graeme Spice
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 2066
    • Comments
    • Please return export capability!
  • Jonathan Drye
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 1800
  • Andrew Trask
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 1170
  • Alexander Jekov
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 1700
  • Kathryn E. Jackson
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 2000
  • Kim Albee
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 1643
    • Comments
    • Providing services that work for Group Owners is important
  • Mike England
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 7,000+
    • Comments
    • The lack of communication about the changes needs fixing. Linked In really needs to appreciate that Group Manager spend a lot of time and energy managing groups and creating their own processes for running their groups. I think this lack of communication and trust will be detrimental to the future value of Linked In.
  • Robin Borough
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 2000+ for American ITIL, 1900+ for CTC
    • Comments
    • I whole-heartedly agree, pls give us the controll back
  • stephen szymanski
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 987
  • Robert Brown
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 5,000 (group name - Wireless Internet Industry Executives)
    • Comments
    • I rely on the downloadable list to update recipient list for newsletters. Members can opt out of that newsletter, but I have no way of generating the list of members now that this feature has been disabled on LinkedIn.
  • Xin
  • Dennis Velco
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 6000
  • MP Crosson
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 18,000+
    • Comments
    • See the HUGE volume of protests against the policy change under the Super Group group discussions.
  • Matt Campbell
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 8001
    • Comments
    • I have 3 groups Lucent Technologies Alumni Network, General DataComm Alumni Network, & University of North Carolina Delta Upsilon
  • Brian H. Madsen
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 22000
  • Carl Townsend - WiMAX360
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 4,000
    • Comments
    • Need this capability to better manage lists.
  • Martin Lee
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 400
    • Comments
    • Please join my group Linked Group Managers to discuss all topics http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1831441&trk=hb_side_g As someone who uses their group for recruitment purposes it is essential for me to be able to seperate candidates from recruiters when sending jobs out !
  • Gerald Haman
  • keshava Chandrashekar
  • Alex Almeda
  • Simon Hamer
  • Ricardo Dorado
    • Comments
    • Our members join our groups and trust in us, so it is our right to have access to all our group member details, easily, like downloading.
  • Stefan de Kok
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 5000
  • Marc Freedman
  • Richard Chaplin
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 807
    • Comments
    • Owner of 'SuperGroup Founders'
  • Barnard Crespi
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 10,700
  • DENIS DUBOIS
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 1,500
  • Steven Burda
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 100000
    • Comments
    • Steven Burda ~ http://www.linkedin.com/in/burda
  • Keith Kirkpatrick
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 2025
    • Comments
    • В
  • Janet Lawson
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 12,000
  • Manish Sagar
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 4500+
    • Comments
    • I strongly recommend reinstating the download email feature
  • Jim Glass
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 5041
  • John-Patrick Skaar
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 5000
  • Eric Kimminau
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 2000+
    • Comments
    • I own/manage 4 large groups.
  • Bangert
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 4937
  • Ankit Chaudhari
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 1300
  • Edward Stern, RN CNI
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 8,586
  • Amber JOhnson
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 8500
  • mark beese
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 4600
  • Ofer Shoche t
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 7500+
    • Comments
    • В
  • Ben Welch-bolen
    • Number of members currently in Group
    • 5000