Joining the LinkedIn Team – Adam Nash
I just wanted to write up a quick post here to better introduce myself. My name is Adam Nash, and I just joined the LinkedIn team a few weeks ago as Senior Director of Product. I’m excited to be a part of the team, and will be dedicating myself full-time to help design and build the best possible platform for professional networking.
I’ve actually been a long-time LinkedIn member myself. In fact, it turns out that my profile was one of the first 10,000 actually created back in 2003.
I think the reason that I was early on LinkedIn is because I’ve realized that the single most valuable asset in your professional career are the people you trust & respect, and those who trust & respect you. LinkedIn has proven this, and with over 11 million members and counting, more and more people are discovering the value in their own professional networks. Even my Mom is on the site now.
I’m incredibly excited to join the product team here under Reid Hoffman, working on both improving existing features of LinkedIn as well as designing new ones. We want LinkedIn to be an invaluable resource for you in your professional lives, and we have only just begun to realize the number of ways to harness the power of the platform.
I’ll be back to post about new features and new ideas on how to use LinkedIn. For now, please feel free to email me at with your best ideas on how we can make LinkedIn invaluable to you. You can also find my LinkedIn profile on the site.
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Kare Anderson June 21st, 2007
Adam & Reid
With whom would I speak about expanding the groups option for LinkedIn via the association “industry”? I am a former WSJ reporter who has spent the past decade speaking and writing so I’ve become quite familiar with this sector and, as a relatively new member of LinkedIn, would be happy to share my ideas re this.
Stevan June 22nd, 2007
May I make a feature request? I sometimes find myself wondering “How did I ever get connected with this person?” about people in my network.
How about adding the ability for me to make a note on each of my connections (optionally, of course) reminding myself how I know them. That would make my networking with them a lot easier and enable their approaches to me to work better because I can be reminder of our connection’s roots.
Thanks for listening.
Sheilah Etheridge June 26th, 2007
Hi Adam,
Congratulations on becoming one of Linkedins guru’s.
Sheilah
Andrew June 28th, 2007
Good stuff — definitely a solid product with real value.
How do I find out if I was one of the original 10,000 users? Would be nice to know my member number, or “member since” date.
AA
Jeffrey Snover July 3rd, 2007
I can see from the format of your posts that as a company you recognize the value of face recognition. Have you considered allowing us to include a headshot in our profiles? I for one am very poor with names but very good at remembering faces.
I often get invites from people whose name I don’t recognize. I’m in a position where I can’t tell whether that is spam or someone whose name I’ve forgotten. Often the invite is the boilerplate and their public profiles are sparse so it doesn’t help. If their profile had a headshot – it would be perfect.
Please consider adding this. I think it would be a big plus.
jps
Nuno Batista July 3rd, 2007
Hi Adam,
Great to have such a LinkedIn fan on the team.
Hope your experience and know-how could help the development of this powerfull tool.
All the best!
Thomas Chittick July 9th, 2007
I have a previous profile under an AOL connection which I would like to access and/or delete. I no longer use AOL and have forgotten the log on for my “inactive” AOL free account.
Can you change the access for that old profile so that I can reach it from my verizon.net address? If not, could you just delete it so that I will only have one profile, e.g. under my verizon.net address?
Any help would be appreciated. thanks, tomchittick
Vamsee July 11th, 2007
Right on, Adam! All the very best! :)
AJ July 12th, 2007
Adam,
Congratulations for your new challenges. I wish you all the best.
As Jeffrey Snover rightly said we migt get in touch with so many people through linkedin however might not recognize them personally, this would really help.
Also while trying to reach another contact through a series of contacts, even if one person declines the forward the whole effort get in vain. Is there a way we can work on this, I think that would help one a lot.
Rest I a frequent visitor of Linkedin and it had helped me a lot professionally.
Thanks.
Ajay
Roni Avraham July 31st, 2007
Hi,
why I can’t invite or accept more collegs?
please! help
thanks,
Roni
Stew August 3rd, 2007
I just returned from a conference and was exploring the best way to connect to acquaintances I know through the professional association. Most are professional peers in my field, but they are not classmates, colleagues (from places I’ve worked), or business partners, so I’ve classified them as “friends” — though I tend to think of that more for personal friendships than professional connections. Is “friend” the best option, or do you have a better suggestion for these connections?
Cees November 10th, 2009
Dear mister Nash,
In IE 8 Microsoft has added the use of Search Accelerators and of course there is one available for LinkedIn.
http://www.ieaddons.com/en/search/?search=linkedin
For my work, I use a web based application which displays contactpersons as hyperlinks. These hyperlinks are not recognized by the current LinkedIn search accelerator.
I took the liberty of creating an accelerator which uses both text and hyperlinks input. You can test it and view the source at:
http://www.snelwerkzoeken.nl/Accelerator.htm
You might want to consider adding the improved version (or one LinkedIn creates themselves) to the Microsoft galery as I believe other users would be helped as well.
If you have any questions/comments please let me know.
Best regards,
Cees