IT Asset Managers: LinkedIn Groups Designed to Serve You

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There are plenty of business professionals that continue to consider LinkedIn only as a means to find their next job. While that is part of LinkedIn’s value, the rapidly growing membership have helped evolve it into an incredible resource. In fact, I have not previously seen anyone publish a blog on the real value of LinkedIn Groups, which articulates WHY each of you should join and participate in groups a few times each week. Since the “why” seems overdue, here are “why” I believe more should seek out LinkedIn Groups that will be helpful:

  1. Role-specific LinkedIn Groups can help you do your job better.
  2. LinkedIn Groups can keep you abreast of industry-specific news or trends about your role.
  3. Members (and their posts) can help you be more informed about “best practices” in your role, how best to present your objectives to senior management, upcoming events designed to broaden your scope, expose you to new vendors, etc.
  4. LinkedIn Groups can broaden your exposure to peers facing the same issues as you do, in your role.
  5. And, yes, role-specific LinkedIn Groups can be a great place to post or find job openings that fit your skills and needs.

Having closely studied role-specific LinkedIn Groups quite closely since 2013-14, here are my best recommendations for anyone in IT Asset Management and/or Hardware Asset Management. No matter the group name, I believe all of these will be helpful. You can click the html link to the right, visit the group and request membership from the volunteer Group Admin(s). Please know that the Admins are volunteer, from the LinkedIn community, and they attend to membership requests in their spare time.

Group Name Group URL
Computer Recycling https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2353952/
Electronics Recycling & EoL Solutions https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1949133/
Global IT Asset Disposition- (ITAD) by ASCDI https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12400522/
Green Datacenter Initiative https://www.linkedin.com/groups/144648/
IT Asset Management – Global https://www.linkedin.com/groups/87458/
IT Asset Management Program Development https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1835215/
IT Asset Management Solutions https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1646257/
IT Audit & Governance https://www.linkedin.com/groups/48549/
IT Core Infrastructure https://www.linkedin.com/groups/107486/
IT Infrastructure Industry Professionals https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2365226/
IT Infrastructure Management Leaders https://www.linkedin.com/groups/129969/
IT Infrastructure Managers Group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3742421/
IT Lifecycle Management https://www.linkedin.com/groups/145217/
IT Vendor Management https://www.linkedin.com/groups/93570/
The Green Datacenter Alliance https://www.linkedin.com/groups/95976/

The ITAM Review

I’d also like to draw your attention to an Organization – The ITAM Review. They’re seeing enormous success and growth because the information and events they promote are incredibly content rich! Best way to get involved is to “follow” their LinkedIn company profile here:

www.linkedin.com/company/the-itam-review/

For those in IT Asset Management roles, I hope this blog is useful to you and I’ll encourage you to share it with your peers. If you believe I’ve inadvertently excluded any valuable LinkedIn Group mentions, please connect to me at LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/brentjanderson65/), send me an InMail and be sure to include the specific URL. I’d be honored to add your suggestions to this blog and continue to update it in service to the community.

Enjoy your holidays and please be safe!

About The Author

Todd founded XS International in 1990, helping to build an independent IT support organization led by pioneering executives with proven tenures at Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. He holds a board of director positions with the world’s two most prominent associations for independent IT support providers – Service Industry Association (SIA) and ASCDI (hardware resellers). He was a founding member of the Digital Right to Repair Coalition (now known as Repair.org, and continues to serve on their Board of Directors. Very much a serial entrepreneur, Todd earned his Bachelor’s in Finance from Ohio State University and later completed a three-year Entrepreneurial Masters Program, given by the Entrepreneurs’ Organization & MIT Enterprise Forum. He now resides in the greater Dallas area with his family.

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