( a screencap from the HIVE linkedin.com page which can be viewed here )
Good morning (or evening) everyone, hope everyone is doing well on this 1st day of May 2020. Noticed earlier when updating my linkedin.com profile that as an orginization we didn't have a page there in order to add HIVE as a place of work on our profiles so went ahead and created the HIVE Blockchain page.
This will allow those of you on linkedin.com to be able to display your involvement with the HIVE blockchain as an entry in your work history. This will also create more links to Hive.io which in turn should increase our market exposure and thus tip the scales in our favour to increase community onboarding, perhaps even market cap. An effort to not mention the old chain was made in order to retain focus on building the future of the HIVE network, rather than brood in the unfortunate circumstances of the past.
The hashtags #hive #hiveblockchain #hiveisalive have been added to the Hive Blockchain page and any posts on linkedin.com including these three tags should be automatically shared to the page.
If you've got a linkedin.com profile and wish to update your work history in order to include the HIVE Blockchain it would be greatly appreciated. The more folks we can get our logo and community in front of the better overall things will be in the future. This is just the beginning of HIVE and I'm glad to be part of it!
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Honestly not sure what to think about this. We have already seen what happens when some Hive users are contacted via LinkedIn to represent Hive and it isn't always good.
Hive isn't owned or operated by an sole corporation. This is very confusing to many people that do not already know the theory of a decentralized blockchain and how one may possible exist.
I just really hope we don't see a bunch of scammers start claiming they work for Hive, positioning themselves as an "official" representative on LinkedIn where most people are not very crypto informed, and then scamming the ever living shit out of to-do-well investors.
In my opinion, having Hive blockchain as a workplace entry on LinkedIn is bad. I would almost rather see LinkedIn block such a thing. I won't be using it, personally.
To be clear, I only have problems with people listing Hive as their workplace. If someone is full-time on Hive, they should be conducting business under a sole-proprietorship or LLC for tax accountability and liability purposes.
I think having a Hive page/group on LinkedIn where people share Hive related information to LinkedIn users is a brilliant idea. (just not the Hive workplace object)
Appreciate you taking time to give detailed feedback on your feelings about this as well as potential attack vectors for scammers. The page itself is basically a link to hive.io which as far as I know is the "official" page for the HIVE blockchain. The brief description on the page states we're a decentralized blockchain with 3 second blocks and zero transaction fees.
I'll check and see what I can do on my end to negate people using the HIVE Blockchain work place on linkedin to pull scams on others. Although it just as easily could have been a malicious 3rd party that created the page and sent people to a phishing site or something.. So silver lining in that aspect that atleast one of the long time community members made it.
Only just recently caught wind of the asshats running around pretending to be HIVE officials and scamming people, however it makes sense with all that going on why people are apprehensive about this.
Thanks again for your thoughts and constructive feedback.
Very true. Maybe there is a way you can prevent users from adding the workplace to their profile without some kind of approval? I honestly haven't ever really administered a LinkedIn page before so not sure what it allows for granular permissions.
I'm looking into it now. For sure.
My first time as well with the whole LinkedIn page thing so still learning. That is a good idea though if it's possible to monitor exactly who is claiming what in regards to HIVE on there.
Good thinking. It's a place that I had never even thought about bringing #hive exposure as it's one that I don't really use but it's definitely a good place to push the brand into.
Yep! Noticed this morning when I went to update my work experience on the site that HIVE wasn't even an option so I made it one. Given that linkedin is sort of like grown up professional facebook I reckon it could be a good place to attract new users and perhaps investors.
Pretty cool to see @Klye!
Thanks Jacob. Figured that it would be a good thing to have.
Yeah it looks appealing! Especially the 'Developed for Web 3.0' part.
Ripped straight from the hive.io website.
Figured I'd take initiative and get us on LinkedIn.com as we weren't. Gives us all the opportunity to wear HIVE badges on our profiles. :D
Nice! I should probably update my very out of date profile on there sometime soon! I like the badge option!
I hope peeps reblog this or write something up about HIVE on LinkedIn themselves. We could use more than 3 following. More exposure! Great work. 👍👍👍
Yeah, we'll see I guess if this helps with exposure.. At the very least we can all rock HIVE on our linkedin.com profiles. :)
Greeat work my guy @klye. I will add hive as a workplace when next i visit Linkedin
Right on captain!