Wrike Team
If you’re using LinkedIn as a business social network, yet you only log on to refresh your profile when you’re actively searching for a job, you are missing out on one of the site's most powerful features: LinkedIn Groups. It's the perfect tool for discovering project management practitioners and veterans who have tons of tips, links, recommended reading, and best practices to share.
Source: http://www.wrike.com/blog/06/30/2014/5-Project-Management-Groups-Join-LinkedIn
Managed by ProjectManagers.net, this group is huge at approximately 565,500 members. Typical discussions in this group revolve around PMP certification, software recommendations, PM methodologies, team and leadership dynamics, and much more. This is THE place to go for advice on how best to manage your teams and lead them to success. You’ll get the highest number of responses to a question here because members are quite helpful, often willing to lend their combined experience to the task of enlightening a curious member.
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With almost 232,000 members, this is another large network, which is managed by ProjectManager.com. The group discusses project management as well as project & portfolio management, PMI, PMP, PMBOK, and more.
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With a little over 111,500 members, this is the official group of the Project Management Institute —the professional membership association world-famous for its PMP certification. This group showcases some very relevant discussions on courses, training and career advancement tips. If you have questions about PMP certification, this is the place to ask them.
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This group, managed by PMLink.com, boasts 55,982 members and is quite active. Discussions center around tips for PMP exam takers, tools, methodologies, jobs, and of course, best practices related to managing teams and projects.
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At just a tad over 264,000 members, this immense network is a powerhouse of Lean Six Sigma practitioners sharing best practices, job openings, and loads of thought leadership articles.
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