Linkedin Blog

The vision and goal for LinkedIn is to help you get the job done as easily and quickly as possible. There’s good news for those of you looking for a productivity tool. This week we’ve just released a new version of LinkedIn’s Outlook toolbar. This version adds support for Outlook 2007 and Windows Vista, and has a  number of key bug fixes. If you didn’t see a message to update when you logged into LinkedIn, you
can install it here.

For those of you who don’t know, we provide free toolbars for Outlook and the IE and Firefox browsers. The Outlook toolbar helps you build and maintain your network through a few features. Here’s a feature comparison:

The past few months saw us reach a few milestones at LinkedIn and we felt that Lunch 2.0 would be a great opportunity to meet a wide cross section of our users who made that possible. Today that wish came true, when we welcomed over 200 professionals from the Bay Area, into our new digs in Mountain View.

The lunch started off promptly at noon with a steady stream of guests arrive and snake their way through our stairway into the cafeteria. Familiar faces in the crowd, included Guy Kawasaki, Rob Hof, Jeremiah
Owyang, Gabe Rivera, Justin Kan, the bub.blicio.us crew, Jeremy Pepper, Shel Israel, Chris Heuer, Daniela Barbosa, Robyn Tippins and many others. Stay tuned for pictures and videos created at the event.

It’s amazing what can happen when the right people connect.  That should sound familiar coming from someone who works at LinkedIn, but we really do believe in the power of a professional network.

A few months ago a handful of LinkedIn employees, inspired by an exchange on our internal blog, came together around the notion that we should really be doing more to leverage our amazing platform for social good.

As far as we’re concerned, a year of profitability is but a “taste” of the success we aspire to achieve at LinkedIn. Nonetheless, our employees, investors, and friends certainly deserve to enjoy such an accomplishment – one to which few dot-com companies can lay claim.

Our normally hard-working yet casual crew cleans up nicely so we decided to bring out the good stuff Saturday night during LinkedIn’s “In the Black” gala at San Francisco’s Ferry Building.