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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Patrick Lee May 18th, 2007
Great new features, Mike. I’ve been enjoying them for the past couple weeks. Looking forward to more of these positive UI tweaks in the near future…
Sam Sethi May 19th, 2007
Mike
Still waiting for:
1. OpenID support.
2. XFN relationship maps and import/export. Dotnetsolutions in the UK have built a great visual XFN viewer.
3. Also could I also create a relationship between my contacts i.e met, acquaintance, friend, work colleague etc.
Brad May 19th, 2007
Nice enhancements
Catherine Soubeyrand May 19th, 2007
Mike,
Thank you for the new features
On a mobile the new My Connections failed to display, it ended in the display of a call to a function.
Are you making some tests on professional mobiles or is it completely outside your scope ?
Regards
Catherine
Samiha Esha May 20th, 2007
great to know about all this new informations. thanks.
regards,
samiha esha :)
Steve Ganz May 21st, 2007
@Catherine: I’m a Web Developer here at LinkedIn and we have done some mobile testing. While most phones don’t support the advanced features, you should at least be presented with a link to our basic connection browser.
From the sounds of it, it seems like you’re using a mobile device that supports JavaScript. Feel free to contact me at sganz at linkedin dot com with more information about your device and I’ll be happy to dig a little deeper.
@Sam: Patience, my friend. :)
Georg Puchta May 21st, 2007
Hi Catherine,
I’m a software engineer at LinkedIn and I had the pleasure to develop the client side JavaScript code for the redesigned connections browser. We do not perform tests regarding what type of client the request comes from. What we do handle as Steve mentioned is the case in which the client does not support Javascript. If your mobile does support JavaScript (to be precise JavaScript 1.2 or higher), you should be able to view the page.
I would be interested to hear precisely how the problem manifests on your mobile devise.
-Georg
Georg Puchta May 22nd, 2007
Catherine,
I believe I found the problem why you are seeing JavaScript code rather than the proper error message. But before making a change to the code, I would like to find out what version of JavaScript your mobile supports. There is a simple web site (see link at the bottom), which will display the version. The link is safe to click on. Amongst some blue bold text you should see black text like this:
Your browser claims to support JavaScript 1.2
http://bclary.com/2004/08/27/javascript-version.html
Cheers,
-Georg Puchta
Georg Puchta May 22nd, 2007
Catherine,
BTW, my email address is gpuchta at linkedin dot com.
Georg Puchta May 23rd, 2007
Catherine,
I will modify the code which most likely causes the problem for the next release. But then again it may not fix your problem. Your browser version is rather old (JavaScript version 1.0). What you can do for now is use the following link to get to the old version of the connections browser.
http://www.linkedin.com/connectionsnojs?trk=tab_ab
Remember that this link may change down the road or even be removed. But for now it will work.
Hope that helps.
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
Peter Fasol June 11th, 2007
I would like to see more flexible ways of assessing my network. It seems to me LinkedIn decides what snippets of information we may see, but that much more options exist, and have existed (e.g. where did the box below the homepage go that alternately showed us Top 5’s of fastest growing countries or branches; now we only get a Top 3 in the full network stats. Why not a top 10 or 25 for that matter? Where did the ‘Just joined LinkedIn’-box go that listed people from your Other Contacts as they join? Where did the newly introduced ‘Who visited my profile’-box go?) Of course I would like much more flashy stuff but I understand that LI wants to think carefully before developing new software. But withhold the possibilities that already exist?
yogesh April 9th, 2009
Hi,
I would like to know, how i can export my connections in .xls format? it would be of great help if you can help me with this.
Thanks,
Yogesh
Dirk Frey April 14th, 2009
Thanks for this question. The Customer Service Center has many frequently asked questions that you can search by topic. One of the FAQs is about Exporting your contact list. It talks about how to export it into a csv. but I’ve failed to really explain how to view it or reopen it as and Excel doc. I’ll be updating the answer as a result. Here are the steps:
1. Log into your old account and click on ‘My Contacts’.
2. Click on ‘Export Connections’ found at the bottom of that page.
3. Enter the text you see in the Security image’.
4. Click on ‘Export’.
5. On the next page make sure that ‘Microsoft Outlook (.csv File)’ is selected from the drop down menu and then click on ‘Export’.
6. In the pop up window select ‘Save File’ then click on ‘Ok’. During this process the file may appear in a downloads window or you may be prompted to save it to someplace on your computer.
7. From the download window you might just be able to click on it and it will open in Excel.
8. If you saved it to your desk top you can right click on the icon and select open as excel from the options and then resave it as an Excel file.
To search for other answers you may need, consult our vast library of FAQs by clicking on ‘Customer Service’ at the bottom of almost any LinkedIn Page.