by Glenn Gutmacher

There's quite a bit of buzz about LinkedIn's Answers section which allows people to pose questions and read answers in various business topic areas. Some people leverage it for help from the communal intelligence of LI's membership, while others see it as a branding platform for their expertise, among other uses.

I just learned of a better way to keep up on the Q&A in your favorite categories than what LI itself offers.  LI gives you a feed link to receive the questions in your RSS reader, but it's ONLY for the questions (e.g., from the Hiring/Human Resources main Answers page, it's this link). But if you want to see the questions AND answers, then use this free RSS mashup by the folks over at Edgehunt.

You'll see they have links to all the major RSS readers for each LinkedIn Q&A category (such as this for Hiring/Human Resources), or an aggregated feed for all categories if you're really obsessed.

Some enhancements that Steven says are coming down the pike include: search function, alerting and 'you responded to' rss feed (automatically recognizes and feeds you with all Q&A to which you responded).  If you have suggestions to improve the mashup, please contact Steven at chriss {at] edgehunt [dot} com

P.S. If you're using the RSS reader built into the Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 web browser (or would like to -- try it), it will display links to the Q&A for each subcategory (e.g., HRH_CMP for compensation/benefits, HRH_PPO for personnel policies, and HRH_SFF for staffing/recruiting), too. To add the feed, just click the little orange RSS icon (near top right of your browser between the home and printer icon)s when you're at a feed URL like the one in the previous paragraph and it will be added to your Favorites Center, which you see when clicking the star icon at top left of your browser. Or go there using the traditional browser text menu along the very top: View --> Explorer Bar --> Feeds