LinkedIn series

7. How to approve and manage your group members on LinkedIn

After you have created a group, you, as the group manager, can begin to invite, approve and manage your group members.

1) Go to groups.

2) Select your group.

3) Go to the members tab.

You can view all the group's members here.

4) To manage your members, click manage.

There are several links in the left sidebar that you can use to manage your group members. We'll go through them one by one starting with approving new members.

5) Click requests to join.

6) Select the member.

If your group is set to auto-approve members, you can skip these steps. To learn how to change your group to auto-approve, watch the tutorial on adjusting your group settings.

7) Click approve.

You can also decline a member access to your group or block them if they continue to send requests to join.

8) Click management.

Any members who are either managers or moderators will be displayed here.

9) Click members.

All approved group members will show up here.

10) To change a member's permissions or role, select the box next to the member.

11) Open the permissions menu.

12) Select if this user requires approval before his posts show up or if no approval is needed.

13) Click change role.

Moderators can monitor and delete inappropriate discussions and comments, manage the moderation queues, and feature a discussion in the manager's choice module. They do not have any other control in your group.

Group managers have almost the same administrative access to the group as the owner does. The only exception being that a manager cannot close or transfer ownership of the group.

14) Select the appropriate role.

15) Now, click invited.

If you have invited any members, they will show up here.

16) Click pre-approved.

You can add pre-approved people if you want to automatically accept their application to join your group.

This is the end of the tutorial. Now you know how to approve and manage members in your group on LinkedIn.