Collaborative articles are a new way to tap into the collective knowledge of the LinkedIn community so you can learn from experts across professional topics, ranging from the common “How do I get a promotion?” to the more specific “How to advertise to Generation Z?”
Check out some of these frequently asked questions about collaborative articles.
We invite experts to directly contribute insights within sections of the collaborative articles. These articles begin as AI-powered conversation starters, developed with our editorial team, but they aren’t complete without insights from our members. Other articles on LinkedIn are created by members, organizations, and LinkedIn Editors, and allow members to react and comment at the bottom of the article.
To find collaborative articles, you can:
Contributions made to collaborative articles are public, so you can view them by clicking into the collaborative articles. Note that not all articles will have contributions. You can also find contributions in your feed and notifications when people in your network contribute to an article.
To view your own contributions in one place, go to your profile and click on Comments in your Activity section.
You are automatically following skill pages created by LinkedIn, based on the skills you selected on your profile, so that you can learn from experts across professional topics via collaborative articles. These articles are found on the skill pages and allow you to view and potentially contribute to relevant articles. You can choose to unfollow a skill page at any time.
You can follow or unfollow a skill page at any time.
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At this time, you cannot create your own skill page.
To turn off notifications about collaborative articles:
Click the
Select Settings & Privacy (Settings on mobile devices).
Click
Click Collaborative articles.
Under Choose where you get notified, switch relevant toggles to Off.
If you find a contribution helpful, you can like or react to it.
If you find a contribution to be irrelevant, random, or not valuable to the article, you can mark it as unhelpful. Your feedback is private and won’t be shown publicly. If you accidentally mark a comment as unhelpful, you can undo it immediately. Please note that once the page is refreshed, you’ll no longer see the contribution that you marked as unhelpful.
At the end of every collaborative article, you can rate the overall quality of the article to help us improve the content experience.
Learn more about giving feedback or reporting a collaborative article.
We remain committed to making LinkedIn a safe, trusted, and professional platform. You can report a collaborative article you think violates our Professional Community Policies.
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We remain committed to making LinkedIn a safe, trusted, and professional platform. You can report any spam, inappropriate, and offensive contribution on the article.
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LinkedIn identifies members who are likely to be experts in a certain topic based on their work experience, skills proficiency, and prior engagement on the platform. They must also meet high trust and quality standards by adhering to LinkedIn’s User Agreement and Professional Community Policies. To be considered, you can engage with the articles by liking or reacting to them.
LinkedIn identifies members who are likely to be experts in a certain topic based on their work experience, skills proficiency, and prior engagement on the platform. They must also meet high trust and quality standards by adhering to LinkedIn’s User Agreement and Professional Community Policies, and their contributions must remain relevant, original, and additive.
If you see Add your perspective in a collaborative article, it means that you’re an approved contributor. Once you are approved, we'll send you an invitation to contribute to an article.
There is no set timeline for receiving an invite to contribute.
Only invited members can contribute within the collaborative article. To contribute, find the specific area that relates most to your insight or idea and click on Add your perspective to add your contribution.
If you do not see these icons, you don’t have contribution access. To be considered, you can engage with the articles by liking or reacting to them.
We’ll invite members to contribute to any collaborative article that may be relevant to their skills. Relevant articles are suggested to you via your feed, notifications, and emails. You can also browse this list of collaborative articles to find collaborative articles or search for collaborative articles via LinkedIn Search.
If you have contribution access to collaborative articles, you can also find the articles in the following locations:
Contributors are eligible to make a maximum of five contributions per article and a total of up to 20 contributions within a 24-hour period. If you exceed this limit, you’ll receive an error when trying to publish your contribution.
Yes, all contributions made on collaborative articles are public to all members, unless a member has blocked the member who has contributed. Replies to contributions are also public.
Yes, you can delete your contributions and replies to contributions in collaborative articles.
Learn how to delete your contributions from a collaborative article.
No, we only support text contributions currently.
You can add links offering valuable and useful information in your contributions, but we do not encourage any self-promotional links. If a contribution violates our Professional Community Policies, it’ll be removed from the article.
There is no limit on the number of people who can contribute to an article.
Yes, your network can receive a notification when you contribute to an article (subject to their notification settings). Your contribution may also show in the feeds of your network.
When you contribute to collaborative articles, we send a notification to your network that you just contributed. You can also share your contribution by reposting it to your network in the Feed.
Additionally, you can click
Your contributions will show up under Recent Activity section on your profile.
Contributing to these articles can help you grow a following and build a reputation on LinkedIn, while helping others move forward in their careers. Collaborative articles are viewable by anyone around the world, on or off LinkedIn, and can expand your reach.
You can also earn a Community Top Voices badge when members find you to be one of the most noteworthy contributors to collaborative articles for a particular skill. If you are awarded a Community Top Voice badge, viewers can see the badge at the top of your profile and next to your name on your contributions to collaborative articles. The skill you are recognized for will be visible on the badge icon. This badge can improve your LinkedIn presence and you may potentially be featured across our social media, editorial and marketing channels.
Learn more about the LinkedIn Top Voices.
You must make three contributions in a specific skill to be eligible to earn the badge for that skill.
Once you've made three contributions, a progress tracker unlocks, showing your journey to earning the badge. If you're below 50% of contributors, the tracker encourages you to continue making insightful contributions for improvement. If you're above 50% but haven't earned a badge yet, it displays your percentage standing to earn the badge.
Once you achieve a badge, the tracker motivates you to showcase your achievement.
At LinkedIn, we want to foster safe, professional dialogue on our collaborative articles. Contributor status can be removed for members whose use of LinkedIn does not adhere to LinkedIn’s User Agreement and Professional Community Policies, or if their contributions do not remain relevant, original, and additive.
While you can continue to view collaborative articles, you will no longer be able to contribute to them.
Note: To the extent you may have a badge, Community Top Voices are vetted to ensure that they meet high trust standards. Community Top Voice badges are given at LinkedIn’s discretion and may be removed at any time without notice, including removal for violating our Professional Community Policies.
If you've any other questions on collaborative articles, please contact us.
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