How To: Create A Poll Within A Group on LinkedIn

Here’s a really neat feature we discovered on LinkedIn this morning – as a member of a group on LinkedIn, you can now start a poll amongst your group members as well as a discussion. So now if you want to get a real debate going within a group and ask fellow opinion on a particular topic, group members can respond to your discussion in poll format really simply and easily by selecting their answer. Done and done.

So, here’s how to do it:

1. Log in to LinkedIn and go in to your chosen group.
2. At the top of the group main page, you’ll see above the Discussion box “Discussion” and “Poll”. Fairly obvious, click “Poll”.
3. Ask your poll question and add your responses (limited to 40 characters per option)
4. Specify your date range that you’d like this poll to be conducted within, and click Share

Simples!

Have you used this feature yet? What do you think of it?