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Tab Control for LinkedIn Groups - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

It has been given to me by a manager of one LinkedIn group that any LinkedIn postings which lead a viewer to another web page are objectionable and are subject to his removal if they cause the LinkedIn tab for his own group to be replaced on screen in the manner shown in level 2 of the following sketch.

His objection is that if the tab which denotes his own group is replaced by a new tab denoting the new web page, the viewer is less likely to subsequently return to his group. However, in operation as in part 3 of this sketch, the tab denoting the original group is retained while a second, adjacent tab is added to serve the new web page and that is considered acceptable by that group manager because his own group's tab remains on screen. A viewer's return to his own group's page is more likely.

This form of tab control is seen by this manager as important and so I have found a way to comply. The following instructions are a means of satisfying this manager's preference.

The first step is to open the group, go to Discussions and find the following template.

Next, enter the title of the post that you are creating:

Temporarily enter the URL of the web page to which you want to direct the reader's attention.

After you finish entering the URL itself with the ending "...html", type one more space character at the end of the URL. When you do that, a sub-window will open up.

Delete the URL that you entered just before. When you do, the new sub-window will remain.

Put in some additional text for some details and/or introductory words if you like and then click on Post.

The posting will go onto the group without a visible URL like this:

Now, clicking on the sub-window will bring the reader to the intended location just as the visible URL would have done., but when that happens, the tab for the LinkedIn page will remain in view and not be lost.

More About Drones - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

From not too long ago, please see: Drones

 

 

These things are really dangerous. We next read at the following URL,  Drone Crash ,

the following: "Empire State Building hit by wayward drone" which describes a drone crashing into the building's 40th floor. If we make a conservative estimate of ten feet per floor, that's a height of four hundred feet. If debris were to fall to the ground from that height, the impact velocity would be found as follows:

v = sqrt ( 2 a S ) = sqrt ( 2 x 32 ft/sec² x 400 feet ) which comes to 160 feet per second which is 109 miles per hour.

Imagine people on the ground showered with drone debris falling at hundred miles per hour velocity because of the misconduct of one da..ed jackass.

Drones seem to be a technological inevitability and at the same time, in my view, an extreme public safety hazard for which I cannot imagine a remedy.