Executives Using Their LinkedIn Presence to Promote Democracy

In light of the upcoming U.S. election on November 3rd, over 50 business leaders in the U.S. across several industries have signed a statement shared on Leadership Now Project’s website. The statement is a public call to action about the importance of democracy and voting, even during a period of crisis. In today's article, we take a look at three different executives who participated in this project and examine how they have used their LinkedIn presence to discuss the upcoming election. In analyzing their posts, we have observed that executives have talked about the election by sharing different content types with their followers in three primary ways: sharing a post from a business page, sharing a post from another LinkedIn user, and posting original content.   Georgie Benardete, Co-Founder and CEO of Align17 On LinkedIn, executives have a variety of options for the type...