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Todays post is about some interesting Sustainability LinkedIn question and answers I found recently.

I think that LinkedIn Answers is a very useful place for sustainability to ask relevant questions and get answers from professionals around the globe.

If you like to know more about LinkedIn answers then please check out my blog entry on the whole topic from October 2009 titled “Using LinkedIn Answers to promote Sustainability”.

And these are five questions and answers from the site I found interesting to share with you:

1. If a company is claiming to be green and they refuse to look at greener suppliers are they really green?
2. Do you think Sustainable Development is a burning need of the hour, Why …?
3. What are the most innovative ideas and companies you have seen in the green space?
4. We are looking to go paperless in our office and are examining all of our options. Do you have any recommendations, horror stories, tips, experience with this in your own office? What products do you use and what agency management system do you work with?
5. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has a tremendous enabling opportunity to impact climate change. In your opinion, what areas require enhanced focus (e.g., smart homes, smart transport)?

What do you think about the LinkedIn Answers Sustainability area? Will you be using it?

Todays post is a resource post about LinkedIn Answers and the potential to promote Sustainability.

I have only just started to use LinkedIn Answers but I think the potential for sharing knowledge by being a platform for asking questions on Sustainability and getting answers to them from professionals is really enormous.

So what is LinkedIn Answers about?

The biggest benefit from LinkedIn Answers really is that you can get fast, accurate answers from your network and other experts worldwide and that you are able to showcase your knowledge, expertise, and interests by answering questions.

This is the look and feel of the interface:

This sharing of knowledge by question and answer is especially important in the context of Sustainability. Sharing the knowhow and information individuals have is essential to pool the best practice and innovation for our fight to save the planet and our way of living. Sounds important I know but we need to everything no matter how small it may seem to make an impact.

Next to connecting with likeminded people to share information and knowledge, the LinkedIn Answers platform can also serve as place for where we can answer Sustainability critics (if they will ask a question of course) that are doubting the usefulness of Sustainability. LinkedIn Answers is not the place for a full online discussion obviously but this might be a good information source for practitioners to point colleagues/critics to if they have a question about certain Sustainability topics.

You need to have registered with LinkedIn in order to answer questions but I believe everyone in the Sustainability business sector should have a a LinkedIn account and profile in any case.

All the links you will need:

This is the main LinkedIn Answers website: LinkedIn Answers Main Page

LinkedIn Answers Sustainability: Sustainability

This is the link to the tutorial if you want to get started on LinkedIn Answers: Tuturial

One last note
Just to be clear on this. I am by no means affiliated with LinkedIn and I am not doing any business with them. For me it is important to share this information for the benefit of all and to promote Sustainability.