Dear LinkedIn,

I LOVE YOU! Really, I do! You have a cool amazing service that has allowed me to expand my business, make new friends, and get in touch with people I have not spoken too in YEARS! Your groups feature, it is FANTASTIC! I have been using it since November 2007 with The Central Ohio Network.

I do have one small favor to ask though. Can we get rid of the function that will not allow you to make another post for 7 days on the dot to the hour, minute, and second? It is a bit annoying.

Last week, Tuesday Jan, 12 2010 @5pm EST, I sent out an announcement to all the members of CO Net regarding weekly updates. I had full knowledge that I would not be able to do this again for about a week. I even understand the policy behind only being allowed to post once every 7 days. You do not want it to be used for spam… However, today is day 7!

I was quite surprised after I tried to send out my weekly communique when I received the following message:

A new announcement may be sent in 6 hours.

Announcements are limited to one every seven days. This group’s last announcement, COnected! The Central Ohio Network Weekly Update Jan, 12 2010 by Rocky VanBrimmer was sent on 1/12/2010.

Come on LinkedInReally? I have to wait 6 more hours to send an announcement? What if I am not available at that time, and send it out at 9 pm? That means next week I have to wait till 9:01 pm to send another announcement out. After awhile, I could see where I start posting on Wed, then Thursday, Friday… etc if I miss my “window.”  Eventually I will have to skip a week to get back to a decent time to send this out on Tuesday’s.

My recommendation, have the default set to 12:01 am on the 7′th day. It still allows one whole week to pass by, and allows the group owner to send out announcements at a time convenient to them.

So how bout it LI, can we get this change hot tracked this week? I hope so… That way I can spend my evening with my family rather than waiting for 6 hours to pass after I have written out my announcement.

Love you LI! YOU ARE THE GREATEST!

Respectfully

Rocky VanBrimmer