How to Approve Members to Your LinkedIn Group

By Joel Elad from LinkedIn For Dummies, 2nd Edition

As more and more people find out about your new LinkedIn group, and as members start joining, you may find that some of the people who have clicked the link to join aren’t on your pre-approved list. Perhaps they are people you didn’t realize were on LinkedIn, perhaps you didn’t realize they were valid group members, or perhaps they clicked the wrong link and/or they don’t belong in your group.

Regardless, you need to go into LinkedIn and either approve or reject people’s membership requests so they can be members (or non-members) of your LinkedIn group.

Enlarge 1 From the top navigation bar, click the Groups link to bring up your list of My Groups. You see the My Groups page. All the other Groups options are just a tab away, but by default, you will see the My Groups page.	Enlarge 2 Scroll down until you see the name and logo of the group you are maintaining. You can manage all your LinkedIn groups from this page.	Enlarge 3 Click the Requests to Join link below the name of your group to bring up the Requests to Join page. This step brings up the list of people waiting to be approved for your group.
Enlarge 4 Select the check box next to each person you want to approve to join your LinkedIn group. Then click the Approve button. You can approve people individually or all at once if you want. You can always select the person’s name on the list to read his LinkedIn profile and decide whether he belongs in the group or send him a message through his profile.	Enlarge 5 To refuse membership, first select the check box next to each person you want to decline membership to the group, and then click the Decline button. You can also click the Decline & Block button if you want to permanently block them from trying to join the group. Similar to the approval process, you can decline people one at a time or all at once. (The easiest way to select everyone is to click the empty check box at the top of the list; the one with no name associated with it.) In either case (approval or decline), the user’s name disappears from the Request to Join page. Lastly, remember that you can remove someone from the group membership at any time after you initially approved him.

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How to Approve Members to Your LinkedIn Group

From the top navigation bar, click the Groups link to bring up your list of My Groups.

Scroll down until you see the name and logo of the group you are maintaining.

Click the Requests to Join link below the name of your group to bring up the Requests to Join page.

Select the check box next to each person you want to approve to join your LinkedIn group. Then click the Approve button.

To refuse membership, first select the check box next to each person you want to decline membership to the group, and then click the Decline button.

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How to Approve Members to Your LinkedIn Group

From the top navigation bar, click the Groups link to bring up your list of My Groups.

Scroll down until you see the name and logo of the group you are maintaining.

Click the Requests to Join link below the name of your group to bring up the Requests to Join page.

Select the check box next to each person you want to approve to join your LinkedIn group. Then click the Approve button.

To refuse membership, first select the check box next to each person you want to decline membership to the group, and then click the Decline button.

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