Linkedin Blog

As we announced yesterday, your LinkedIn profile is now ready for your photo upload in the Profile section. As Adam mentioned in his blog post yesterday:

Adding a profile photo is one of the most commonly requested features for the LinkedIn profile, primarily because many people (like me) tend to recognize their colleagues and classmates more reliably by face than by name.  They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and with this feature we hope to make it easier for people to form richer professional connections online.

We’re excited to announce that starting tomorrow (Friday 28, 2007) LinkedIn members will have a new option available: the ability to add a professional photo to their profile.

Adding a profile photo is one of the most commonly requested features for the LinkedIn profile, primarily because many people (like me) tend to recognize their colleagues and classmates more reliably by face than by name.  They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and with this feature we hope to make it easier for people to form richer professional connections online.

I recently joined the LinkedIn team as Director of Advertising Sales, a job I gained through using LinkedIn. I’ve used LinkedIn for years as an invaluable tool to build up and manage my professional network, find and
recruit talented people, and grow my customer base. I’ve also used it to stay on top of the current voice of the marketing community by taking a daily look at the types of questions and answers being posted in the Answers section. And now I can say that I’ve used it to land an exciting new career opportunity even though I wasn’t actively seeking one out, something that would have been almost impossible years ago but is now a common occurrence thanks to LinkedIn’s ability to help you manage your professional brand.

Branding is something that we as professionals need to take very seriously on an individual level. Ten years ago, Tom Peters penned an article for Fast Company called “The Brand Called You”, which stressed that it’s absolutely imperative for all professionals to develop a unique and personal “professional brand” that communicates the value they have to offer to prospective employers, employees, clients and business partners.

Some of you may have read my earlier introductory post on LinkedIn Toolbars, which can be found here. As you’re probably aware, the LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar helps you integrate your LinkedIn information with
your Microsoft Outlook email client – providing you instant access to a sender’s LinkedIn profile info that you stumble upon while in Outlook. Well, we just released the next version to the LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar (v2.5) and I’d like to outline what’s different in this version.

Click here to download Outlook Toolbar 2.5