Comments on: Refined Network Updates, Groups and new Notes!

By: Castellina

Castellina — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:20:37 +0000

Hi. thanks for the possibilty to leave a comment here. I have 2 issues:
1. even for the non-premium users I would suggest that you allow us to see the last 5 people who were on our site. Like Xing – another network (European). To see that a project manager from IBM was on my site, is not at all helpful. The premium clients can access the full list, and the basic ones just the last 5 people. Also here I would suggest, a pop-up window appears when wanting to leave the profile page of someone, asking if we want to leave a short note to that person (e.g. interesting profile! or congratulations to your new job – if this is marked somehow on the profile page, like RECENT NEWS from XY… started new job, new hobby etc.). That pop-up window could contain 2 possibilities: would you like to leave a short note to this person? Or would you like to mark this page for your later view, etc.??
2. I would like to use a button “Block this person from viewing my profile”.
PLS DO NOT PUBLISH THIS. -> I was once harrassed by a work colleague and would like to block him or ex- colleagues from viewing my profile. Like I would not have a profile on LinkedIn at all… This would be really cool. Skype is also offering it (to all members).
Finally, have you thought of translating LinkedIn in other languages and making it more known to other countries?
You could even send some survey/suggestion blocknote to your members asking what they would like to have, or even implementing that button on the profile side.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope you don t publish my post but reply privately or if you do, take out the phrase with “do not publish”..
Thanks & All the Best
Castellina

By: Jenny Day

Jenny Day — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:50:27 +0000

I am interested in allowing our new group, Association of Medical Media (AMM), the ability to communicate with one another in a blog. Is this possible? How do I make that happen (as the group manager)… Thanks in advance,

By: Salvatore Larosa

Salvatore Larosa — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:24:03 +0000

Hello,

I would like to suggest the following improvements to your group management features:

1. the creation of a “Group Page” in which
1a. The Group creator can insert text in order to clarify / detail group purposes, rules, foundations etc.
2a. Any Group member can see a list of group members, provided that such listed members have accepted to be listed

2. empowering the linkedin “search” feature: please extend such a search to the Group name. So, for instance, if I am a member of group “My university alumni”, I will be able to find all the group members by entering “my university alumni” in the seach text input box

Best regards,

Salvatore

By: Mauro Mello

Mauro Mello — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:03:39 +0000

Something I miss a lot, not only in LinkedIn, but in all social/professional network platforms is NETWORK STATISTICS.

What if we could see statistics of our networks — density, number of clusters/cliques, etc. — as well as comparisons to averages of the other LinkedIn users’ metrics.

It would also be great if there were measures of distances to “flag users”, such as Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama, a farmer in Borneo… whoever you fancy. The important thing is to have a measure of the reach of one’s network, and to compare it to, say, the average user and the Top-10% users.

Today we don’t even know in what decil of network SIZE we are in. Things like “film producers in Cracovia are in your network” aren’t really very informative.

These 2 books cover the subject of network metrics in different levels of detail:

Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (http://www.amazon.com/Social-Network-Analysis-Applications-Structural/dp/0521387078/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197070743&sr=8-1) is the BIBLE on the subject. Covers everything in a very technical level.

Achieving Success Through Social Capital (http://www.amazon.com/Achieving-Success-Through-Social-Capital/dp/0787953091/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197071125&sr=1-5), on the other hand, is VERY introductory, but presents a few usefull network metrics that would be great to begin with.

You guys at LinkedIn are in a privileged position to start “educating the masses” about social networks. I mean: helping us all get familiar with the shape of our own professional networks, how does it compares with others’ etc.

Please, help us start seeing this — as of today — invisible aspect of reality.

And, of course, congratulations for the wonderful job you have been doing so far.

All the best!

By: Vadim Sukhomlinov

Vadim Sukhomlinov — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:12:58 +0000

Hi, don’t know if its right place to post, but anyway.
Today, LinkedIn is positioned as international, but english-oriented portal/social network. Sometimes, especially in countries with scripts other than Latin, english translation of name is not very accurate or unique. I have an idea how to overcome this – you can add in profile couple fields to set user’s name in original language, specify language,etc. It should help to enhance positions of LinkedIn on international markets. Also, adding localized versions of sites and automated profile translator (say from Google :) should help to build connections around the world and break language barrier.Users can set in profiles which languages they can read and engine will select best way of translatation.

By: Chris Richman

Chris Richman — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:48:06 +0000

Thanks again for all the great feedback and comments. We’re working hard on many of your suggestions and hope to release some of them in the coming months.

Rick – If you go to your LinkedIn Inbox, click on “Messages” in the left-hand navigation bar, then click on “Sent” in the upper-right corner you’ll be able to see the messages you sent.

By: Jasper de Valk

Jasper de Valk — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:23:46 +0000

A nice additional function would be the option for group creaters/administrators to invite multiple people with LinkedIn msgs instead of having to compose an e-mail.

By: Jasper de Valk

Jasper de Valk — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:45:51 +0000

I like the new features, but the network updates panel isn’t working properly yet. Sometimes it doesn’t show all network updates and some network updates occasionally get shown on the wrong date.

By: Rick Regenfuss

Rick Regenfuss — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:07:33 +0000

I like the ability to message my contacts, BUT please add a place where I can review what I said… As it stands I will probably continue to utilize my email program which will allow me to access my ’sent’ messages.

–Rick

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:29:30 +0000

I agree with Dieter and Sheilah. Losing ‘Send an email’ is a major retrograde step for the LinkedIn profiles. I don’t care to send messages within the LinkedIn messaging system .

Moving the email to the bottom of the profile requires me to scroll through pages of info and is highly inconvenient. It makes using LinkedIn on my iPhone almost impossible.

Please bring the email address back to the top of the profile. At first I thought this was a bug because it appears to be such an obvious oversight. It was only later I discovered this was a ‘feature’ to promote LinkedIn messaging. In my opinion it’s a poorly thought out one. If I wanted to message my friends outside email, I’d be on Facebook (and still in college), not on LinkedIn.