Reposting Someone Else's Content Without Credit Is Lame

Reposting Someone Else's Content Without Credit Is Lame

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Peter Walker

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Published date: 

August 4, 2024

Seeing more original work swiped without attribution on LinkedIn—the solution is simple: tag the original creator or write your own perspective rather than...

LinkedIn: Reposting Someone Else's Content Without Credit Is Lame

If you take someone else's post—word for word and use the same image to boot—and then respond to getting called out with this sort of nonsense...

We can't help you 🤣

Sadly seeing a lot of cool people on this platform getting their work swiped without attribution.

It's pretty easy to not be lame like that. Simply:

1. Tag the original creator

2. Write your own opinion rather than copy pasting the text

3. Don't remove logos or personal attribution in the image

People who make stuff here want it to be shared. Let them help boost your reach!

#linkedin #insights

Peter Walker
Author: Peter Walker
Peter Walker runs the Insights team at Carta, focused on discovering key data and narratives across the private capital ecosystem. In a former life, he was a marketing executive for a media analytics startup and led the data visualization team at the Covid Tracking Project.

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