LinkedIn Sunset the Gold Top Voice Badge as of October 8th, 2024 - you can still contribute to collaborative articles, but you will not be able to earn a Top Voice Badge. Full email from LinkedIn below: "Thank you for being a valuable contributor to our collaborative articles! Since launch, we've seen more and more people coming together to share their insights and learn from each other through collaborative articles. With this growth, we're also hearing more feedback from our community. We've learned that it is challenging to maintain the highest quality standards for our Community Top Voice badges, as they are currently awarded automatically to contributors, and not manually awarded by our team. Therefore, we have decided to retire the gold Community Top Voice badge (gold badge) and discontinue the ability to earn them automatically through contributions to collaborative articles starting October 8. There will be no changes to our Top Voice (blue badge) program, which is already awarded invitation-only, through our editorial team. If you currently have a gold Community Top Voice badge, please note that it will expire within 60 days from when it was awarded. Those who earn a badge on October 8, 2024 will have it through December 7, 2024. We appreciate your contributions to the community, and encourage you to continue contributing to collaborative articles as a way to: Be seen as an expert in your field: You've learned things, been places. Voice your unique perspective and get recognition alongside other experts. Get exposure to people outside of your network: You never know what opportunities or connections will come your way. Help the community: Give back by helping the LinkedIn community find answers to common workplace questions, helping members move forward in their careers. Thank you, The LinkedIn Team"
@@JennieWhite-uf1hj you'll be able to get it up until Oct. 8th and it would last until Dec. 7th Per LinkedIn, "Those who earn a badge on October 8, 2024 will have it through December 7, 2024."
Implementing this strategy as my 2024 new year resolution. Only 10 days in and profile visits + impressions are up 450%. Also striving for minimum 3 posts per week on LI Anyone else seeing a jump?
From my experience it's best to have Creator Mode enabled on your profile and at least 500+ 1st degree connections. LinkedIn says this about eligibility to add perspective: "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."
@@KcMcclary - unfortunately this Top Voice badge no longer exists, so verification is not needed because you can no longer get it. LinkedIn Sunset this Top Voice badge on 12/7/24
Here is LinkedIn's guidance from their FAQs - TLDR you need to engage with collaborative articles by liking other people's contributions. What are the criteria to become a contributor? 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. How do I add a contribution to a collaborative article? 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.
Hey how did you? I kept on liking & reacting to the linkedin articles but did nit get any invite. How much time does it take for linkedin to send the invite link?
Hello! Thanks for you contribution. Maybe you can help me: I can only recommend other ones, I don't see the text editor to write my own contribution :(
Here is LinkedIn's guidance from their FAQs - TLDR you need to engage with collaborative articles by liking other people's contributions. What are the criteria to become a contributor? 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. How do I add a contribution to a collaborative article? 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.
Hi , thanks for the video, wanted to ask your thoughts... I specalise in Time management/productivity, my clients are Australian senior public servants, when going for this badge, should I try to get the Time Management badge or should I get a badge in the Executive manager topic ie provide comment on time management related questions in this category? Thanks so much
I'd go for Time Management specifically for the badge that you show. The great thing is you can get multiple badges and choose which one shows. So you can still contribute to the Executive Manager topic for extra reach, but then leverage the badge most specific to your expertise.
I realized I can't make a contribution yet. I've been reacting to other users' contributions but nothing yet. How do I get eligible to make contributions?
Unfortunately LinkedIn no longer is giving Top Voice Badges out to contributors. Making contributions is still a great way to show up in the LinkedIn feed more often, but no longer the added benefit of getting a Top Voice badge
From my experience it's best to have Creator Mode enabled on your profile and at least 500+ 1st degree connections. LinkedIn says this about eligibility to add perspective: "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."
I earned mine last week as a Top Computer Science Voice. I'm a Software Engineer and really want to work hard to maintain the badge till the end of the year. Maybe it will help me generate leads to my first job as a developer. For those who haven't earned it yet, it's not a walk in the park. It requires a whole lot of dedication, consistency and authenticity of your content to your audience to crack the LinkedIn's algorithm.
👋hey george it is showing - "This is where invited experts will be adding contributions. Experts are selected based on on their experience and skills. Learn more about how members become contributors." do we need to be invited to write reviews on those articles ??🤔
@@itzJee1 Before I started contributing to the collaborative articles, I did get an invitation from LinkedIn saying: "You are one of the few experts invited to contribute....." and upon clicking on it would get the option of "Add your perspective". Not really sure if you have to be invited or can just start contributing right away. You can just extend your research on it.
You can typically see progress after making contributions to 3 different posts. If it's a competitive category it might not be enough after 3, but you'll eventually see if you keep contributing to new articles. You'll see progress in the top right when you click into a specific article to contribute to. Hope this helps!
From my experience, around 90 days without doing anything to maintain it during that time period. If you continue to contribute in the categories you're a top voice in you should maintain it for the long haul.
Here is LinkedIn's guidance from their FAQs - TLDR you need to engage with collaborative articles by liking other people's contributions. What are the criteria to become a contributor? 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. How do I add a contribution to a collaborative article? 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.
@@dominikkochdev Hi but I’m trying without any success to comment the post in order to be considered for a Badge. But LinkedIn don’t allow me to post anything. Please help. Regards
Yup. It doesn't work great by just sharing the link thought from my experience. I'll typically prompt it with the Topic, Title of the Collaborative Article, and then the subtopic where you are sharing your perspective. It's not perfect, but here is something you can play with. For example, "Pretend you are an expert in Social Selling. Help me expand upon this topic for an article. Provide new and unique perspectives. Your response should be less than 750 characters, and bring a fresh perspective to the topic. Your response should be specific to the subtopic, without repeating common tuemes Topic: Social Selling Article Title: You're navigating social selling and marketing touchpoints. How do you ensure a seamless customer experience? Subtitle: Active Listening"
Ya it can take a little time - unfortunately the Top Voice Contributor badge (the gold badge talked about in this video) is no longer available as of October 8th 2024. Anyone with a badge will keep showing it until September, but after Dec 2024 these Top Voice badges will be gone forever The Blue Top Voice Badge will still exist, but that's by invitation only via LinkedIn employee.
hey it is showing - "This is where invited experts will be adding contributions. Experts are selected based on on their experience and skills. Learn more about how members become contributors." do we need to be invited to write reviews on those articles ??
Here is LinkedIn's guidance from their FAQs - TLDR you need to engage with collaborative articles by liking other people's contributions. What are the criteria to become a contributor? 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. How do I add a contribution to a collaborative article? 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.
Here is LinkedIn's guidance from their FAQs - TLDR you need to engage with collaborative articles by liking other people's contributions. What are the criteria to become a contributor? 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. How do I add a contribution to a collaborative article? 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.
Yes! You can get as many badges as you qualify for, but you can only display one badge at a time. People would need to click your badges to see the additional ones.
Unfortunately there are no hard and fast rules for who is allowed to contribute. That's one of the reasons I didn't include any criteria ;) Here is guidance directly from LinkedIn's FAQ on the topic though. Hope it helps: What are the criteria to become a contributor? 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. How will I know if I become an approved contributor? 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. How do I add a contribution to a collaborative article? 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.
LinkedIn Sunset the Gold Top Voice Badge as of October 8th, 2024 - you can still contribute to collaborative articles, but you will not be able to earn a Top Voice Badge. Full email from LinkedIn below:
"Thank you for being a valuable contributor to our collaborative articles!
Since launch, we've seen more and more people coming together to share their insights and learn from each other through collaborative articles. With this growth, we're also hearing more feedback from our community. We've learned that it is challenging to maintain the highest quality standards for our Community Top Voice badges, as they are currently awarded automatically to contributors, and not manually awarded by our team.
Therefore, we have decided to retire the gold Community Top Voice badge (gold badge) and discontinue the ability to earn them automatically through contributions to collaborative articles starting October 8. There will be no changes to our Top Voice (blue badge) program, which is already awarded invitation-only, through our editorial team.
If you currently have a gold Community Top Voice badge, please note that it will expire within 60 days from when it was awarded. Those who earn a badge on October 8, 2024 will have it through December 7, 2024.
We appreciate your contributions to the community, and encourage you to continue contributing to collaborative articles as a way to:
Be seen as an expert in your field: You've learned things, been places. Voice your unique perspective and get recognition alongside other experts.
Get exposure to people outside of your network: You never know what opportunities or connections will come your way.
Help the community: Give back by helping the LinkedIn community find answers to common workplace questions, helping members move forward in their careers.
Thank you,
The LinkedIn Team"
So is it porrible for me get one from today?
@@JennieWhite-uf1hj you'll be able to get it up until Oct. 8th and it would last until Dec. 7th
Per LinkedIn, "Those who earn a badge on October 8, 2024 will have it through December 7, 2024."
Implementing this strategy as my 2024 new year resolution.
Only 10 days in and profile visits + impressions are up 450%. Also striving for minimum 3 posts per week on LI
Anyone else seeing a jump?
Let's go! Excited to help however I can
This is great, how do you track progress? I can't find the articles / categories any more where I contributed last month
This video is pure Gold, thanks.
Appreciate the kind words. Thanks for watching
Helpful explanation. Thank you for sharing here.
Go Chris Go :)
Always love hearing from you Evan - appreciate the continued support
I have no option of contribution.
Me too
You have to be invited
How ?
Search the topic you want to contribute in for example, team leadership and follow the topic to contribute
@@ZHIRO1 im following the topic then what need to do further ?
Sir, this feature is not showing for my profile how can achieve this feature?
From my experience it's best to have Creator Mode enabled on your profile and at least 500+ 1st degree connections. LinkedIn says this about eligibility to add perspective: "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."
@@UptownCreationB2BMarketing Does this mean that verification oa necessary?
@@KcMcclary - unfortunately this Top Voice badge no longer exists, so verification is not needed because you can no longer get it. LinkedIn Sunset this Top Voice badge on 12/7/24
I am not able to see that contribution option why?
Same
Here is LinkedIn's guidance from their FAQs - TLDR you need to engage with collaborative articles by liking other people's contributions.
What are the criteria to become a contributor?
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.
How do I add a contribution to a collaborative article?
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.
I was given top voice badge but now it is gone and when i wsnt to contribute it gives no option@@UptownCreationB2BMarketing
helpful video! Thank you
This was helpful, I will contribute today, I got an invite.
Hey how did you? I kept on liking & reacting to the linkedin articles but did nit get any invite. How much time does it take for linkedin to send the invite link?
Awesome! Glad it was helpful and congrats on being able to contribute.
Hello! Thanks for you contribution.
Maybe you can help me: I can only recommend other ones, I don't see the text editor to write my own contribution :(
Here is LinkedIn's guidance from their FAQs - TLDR you need to engage with collaborative articles by liking other people's contributions.
What are the criteria to become a contributor?
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.
How do I add a contribution to a collaborative article?
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.
I am into top 5%, when can I expect badge. Pls suggest
Hi , thanks for the video, wanted to ask your thoughts... I specalise in Time management/productivity, my clients are Australian senior public servants, when going for this badge, should I try to get the Time Management badge or should I get a badge in the Executive manager topic ie provide comment on time management related questions in this category? Thanks so much
I'd go for Time Management specifically for the badge that you show. The great thing is you can get multiple badges and choose which one shows. So you can still contribute to the Executive Manager topic for extra reach, but then leverage the badge most specific to your expertise.
I realized I can't make a contribution yet. I've been reacting to other users' contributions but nothing yet.
How do I get eligible to make contributions?
Unfortunately LinkedIn no longer is giving Top Voice Badges out to contributors. Making contributions is still a great way to show up in the LinkedIn feed more often, but no longer the added benefit of getting a Top Voice badge
Helpful video
I don't find add your perspective tab up in my linkden account
From my experience it's best to have Creator Mode enabled on your profile and at least 500+ 1st degree connections. LinkedIn says this about eligibility to add perspective: "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."
I earned mine last week as a Top Computer Science Voice. I'm a Software Engineer and really want to work hard to maintain the badge till the end of the year. Maybe it will help me generate leads to my first job as a developer. For those who haven't earned it yet, it's not a walk in the park. It requires a whole lot of dedication, consistency and authenticity of your content to your audience to crack the LinkedIn's algorithm.
👋hey george it is showing - "This is where invited experts will be adding contributions.
Experts are selected based on on their experience and skills.
Learn more about how members become contributors."
do we need to be invited to write reviews on those articles ??🤔
@@itzJee1 Before I started contributing to the collaborative articles, I did get an invitation from LinkedIn saying: "You are one of the few experts invited to contribute....." and upon clicking on it would get the option of "Add your perspective".
Not really sure if you have to be invited or can just start contributing right away. You can just extend your research on it.
Haha. LinkedIn now removed it 😂😂😂😂😂
How do you track the progress?
You can typically see progress after making contributions to 3 different posts.
If it's a competitive category it might not be enough after 3, but you'll eventually see if you keep contributing to new articles.
You'll see progress in the top right when you click into a specific article to contribute to.
Hope this helps!
How do you tell what percentage you’re in?
I hv contributed today. I got an invite from linkedin to contribute.
Congrats! What Top Voice Badge are you going for?
how to get the invitation please help
Thank you 👍
You bet!
How long does this badge last?
From my experience, around 90 days without doing anything to maintain it during that time period.
If you continue to contribute in the categories you're a top voice in you should maintain it for the long haul.
Not showing option start a contribution
Here is LinkedIn's guidance from their FAQs - TLDR you need to engage with collaborative articles by liking other people's contributions.
What are the criteria to become a contributor?
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.
How do I add a contribution to a collaborative article?
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.
Great content. I would like to know if in order to contribute do i have to be active on Linkedin Premium. Thanks in advance best regards!
You dont need an active subscription, no.
@@dominikkochdev Hi but I’m trying without any success to comment the post in order to be considered for a Badge. But LinkedIn don’t allow me to post anything. Please help. Regards
@@TokencrownTV You need to be invited to write for them in some way not everyone can do it straight away
@@dominikkochdev There’s something I can do to receive the invitation from LinkedIn.?
@@TokencrownTV Im not sure myself you could try looking on youtube a bit.
@Uptown Creation - can chatgpt be used?
Yup. It doesn't work great by just sharing the link thought from my experience.
I'll typically prompt it with the Topic, Title of the Collaborative Article, and then the subtopic where you are sharing your perspective.
It's not perfect, but here is something you can play with.
For example, "Pretend you are an expert in Social Selling. Help me expand upon this topic for an article. Provide new and unique perspectives. Your response should be less than 750 characters, and bring a fresh perspective to the topic. Your response should be specific to the subtopic, without repeating common tuemes
Topic: Social Selling
Article Title: You're navigating social selling and marketing touchpoints. How do you ensure a seamless customer experience?
Subtitle:
Active Listening"
My LInkedin doesnt let me contribute to these articles. Its wild but the option to collab isn't even there
Ya it can take a little time - unfortunately the Top Voice Contributor badge (the gold badge talked about in this video) is no longer available as of October 8th 2024.
Anyone with a badge will keep showing it until September, but after Dec 2024 these Top Voice badges will be gone forever
The Blue Top Voice Badge will still exist, but that's by invitation only via LinkedIn employee.
hey it is showing - "This is where invited experts will be adding contributions.
Experts are selected based on on their experience and skills.
Learn more about how members become contributors."
do we need to be invited to write reviews on those articles ??
Here is LinkedIn's guidance from their FAQs - TLDR you need to engage with collaborative articles by liking other people's contributions.
What are the criteria to become a contributor?
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.
How do I add a contribution to a collaborative article?
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.
It won’t let me collaborate on articles. Any idea why?
Here is LinkedIn's guidance from their FAQs - TLDR you need to engage with collaborative articles by liking other people's contributions.
What are the criteria to become a contributor?
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.
How do I add a contribution to a collaborative article?
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.
Thanks
No problem
Can someone get more than one badge?
Yes! You can get as many badges as you qualify for, but you can only display one badge at a time.
People would need to click your badges to see the additional ones.
I cant even contribute
Same here. I've already hit the Dislike on this video for not even telling viewers HOW TO get the ability to be able to contribute.
Unfortunately there are no hard and fast rules for who is allowed to contribute. That's one of the reasons I didn't include any criteria ;)
Here is guidance directly from LinkedIn's FAQ on the topic though. Hope it helps:
What are the criteria to become a contributor?
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.
How will I know if I become an approved contributor?
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.
How do I add a contribution to a collaborative article?
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.