Start adding to the "Events" section on our LinkedIn page

[agriyakhetarpal]

I've seen other pages have events lined up in a carousel immediately after their "About" section: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a552496/create-an-event-from-your-linkedin-page?lang=en

There is also a "Past events" section, but I'm not sure if we can add backdated events. It could be worth trying!

@malayajac, this might be useful for the 1st November call – we can link to the FOSS United event page (when done from the chapter dashboard) from LinkedIn.

[agriyakhetarpal]

@Haleshot and I tried this out for our fourth community call with mixed results. It doesn't serve much purpose and also requires a separate post to go along with it, which isn't very customisable either. I'm not happy with the user experience here.

The next time we set up an event on LinkedIn, I think it's best to do so around the conference date, once we finalise it and have a website, so the event remains visible for several months and appears on our page for visitors and followers. This is because it'll show up in our connections' feeds if we choose to click the "I'm attending" option.

We could also set this up for special one-off events that we plan, such as the Pint of Science events (#20) – but not for community calls or our more frequent events that we do on a much smaller scale.

[Haleshot]

+1 on on this. From the conference angle, it would be nice to release the events post for it 1 month or so (maybe even more) before the event itself (to give it time to circulate throughout LinkedIn).