Building & viewing your network just got easier
We’ve recently launched a new feature on user profile pages, which makes it easier to build your network with people you already know.
Here’s how it works:
From a person’s profile page, click on the ‘Add [person's name] to your network’ link.
In most cases, you’ll see a page where you simply need to indicate how you know that person (e.g., colleague, classmate, business partner) in order to send an invitation to connect.
We’ve also redesigned the ‘My Connections‘ page, which will hopefully improve viewing of your LinkedIn connections.
New features include the ability to only show contacts with new
connections, filtering by location and industry, as well as alphabetical
navigation to help you quickly find the specific contact you’re looking for.
If you have less than 500 connections, you’ll be able to scroll through all of your connections. If you have more than that, you’ll just need to click on the alphabetical navigation to view them all. Hope you find the new feature of much use to you.
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Mike O'Neil May 29th, 2007
I know we can see our connections filtered by location and that is helpful. Even if you filter by an area, the download (button on bottom) still downloads the WHOLE group of ALL connections and no locational information is included. There are lots and lots of empty columns.
e.g. I have about 2400 connections and I estimate that about half are here in Colorado. I filter on Greater Denver Area for example (1 of the 5 Colorado “areas”). I get a subset that indeed looks like it should. The filter doesn’t tell you the total number that it finds unless you go through every letter of the alphabet and add them all up – nobody wants to do that.
Why does this matter? It is very useful to have contact with people in your local community. We do networking events here and it is very hard to only invite people in Colorado. If you are in New York and connected to me, you probably don’t want to be invited to Monday’s LinkedIn Live! event in Denver.
LinkedIn Contact Manager (3rd party product) used to do this and it is broken with the new changes LI has put in lately (nice changes too). It really shouldn’t require a 3rd party solution anyhow.
Anything on the horizon?
Mike O’Neil
President
Integrated Alliances
Gareth James September 1st, 2009
Well mines growing very nicely, just keep asking and peoplr will generally oblige.