Announcing LinkedIn News, Redesigned Homepage & more
The past few weeks have seen the release of a slew of features that have helped augment your experience of LinkedIn; features ranging from refined network updates to the ability to add a photo to your profile. Today, we’re glad to announce the next step in that evolution – a completely redesigned homepage as well as further details on LinkedIn’s Intelligent Application Platform. In this post we hope to give you a quick snapshot of what’s new on LinkedIn today.
Given below is a brief introduction from Adam Nash, Sr. Director of Product, who I was able to catch in our soon-to-move-in expanded work spaces.
Here’s what to look out for in the redesigned homepage:
1. Company News:
Start each work day by reading the most relevant news articles about your company, your industry, and your competitors through a Company News feed ranked by relevance and popularity within your company network.
Also, the five most read news articles (or blog posts) show up on your homepage and you can click through to see more. You can also browse through the articles that have been read the most by your colleagues this past week or in the past 2 weeks thereby providing you a complete history of the hot business topics in your professional world.
2. Customizable modules:
In addition to having a new, much slicker look-and-feel, the homepage has also been redesigned to become your professional dashboard where you can view the most important information you need as a professional. For now, you can add any of the following three modules:
a. People
b. Jobs
c. Answers
This group of modules is also the online real estate where you’d add the applications created as part of the Intelligent Applications Platform (read more about it here). My personal favorite is the ability to add any one of the categories under LinkedIn Answers as a separate module. I’ve just added LinkedIn Answers from the Blogging category that I can check each day when I log into LinkedIn.
3. Network Updates:
The other key part of your LinkedIn homepage is the network updates section, which we refined recently. Click here to read more about it and click here to watch Chris Richman, Product Manager, describe the feature in detail.
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Related coverage:
1. San Francisco Chronicle – The appeal of business networking site LinkedIn is blooming
2. WebWare – LinkedIn debuts developer platform, revamps home page
3. Reuters – LinkedIn courts developers, lands Business Week
4. TechCrunch – LinkedIn API and the new homepage drawing near
5. Silicon Alley Insider - LinkedIn: No NWS News. But plenty of new features
6. Venture Beat – LinkedIn launches platform, redesign – a better business social network
Stay tuned for in-depth details on LinkedIn News and the redesigned homepage in upcoming posts.
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shashib December 10th, 2007
When will this appear in our Linkedin Accounts? Change is always good and I want to experience this change ASAP>
Cheers !
Rob Fields December 11th, 2007
These are wonderful improvements. However, I think what would be really useful is a way that, once someone becomes a contact, their contact info gets populated in their vCard. I mean, I’d like to have more than just a title and e-mail address. And, why not? They’re a contact.
Right now, this is the one thing that keeps LI from maximizing its usefulness.
Thanks,
Rob
Dave Wieneke December 11th, 2007
Can I identify items which should be added to my corporations news? Seems like this would be a really nice social tagging opportunity.
I don’t want to read what my colleagues think of your feed — I’d like to see their recommendations as a foundation for the feed, then what most like, as an added filter.
Kawika Holbrook December 12th, 2007
Looking forward to the Company News feature, which doesn’t seem to be on the homepage yet.
Aaron Kahlow December 31st, 2007
Very cool Mario! Looks like Facebook has something to worry about.
Julia Erickson January 30th, 2008
Love many of the new features, especially the updates about who’s doing what in my network. One strategy I am trying to implement is getting recommendations for my various positions – that should pop me up on some people’s radar, since it’s a change to my profile. The only problem is that LinkedIn won’t let me accept the most recent recommendations! It keeps me in a loop of signing in over and over. Is this a by-product of some of the great changes you’ve made? Customer service is silent on the issue, so far.
sanjeet August 24th, 2008
dear sir/madam
how can i add vCard in my profile
sanjeet