Sharing “LinkedIn News” with your professional network
Much has been blogged about the “LinkedIn News” feature, which Allen Blue announced towards the end of last year. Since that announcement we’ve been continually enhancing the feature set to make it much more useful for the millions of professionals who use LinkedIn.
Here’s a brief overview of three key functional areas of the “LinkedIn News” feature, which you may have not noticed thus far. These include the most popular news in your network and the ability to share and flag news items. Read on.
1. Most Popular News items within your network
As soon as you log in, you’ll be able to see the summary capsule of LinkedIn News, which highlights the five most popular articles read by your professional network. We’ve also added four different tabs (Most Read, Company, Other companies, Industry) to this dashboard to help you navigate through news that’s most relevant in your professional world.
2. More News (Expanded News Segment)
Since the dashboard provides you with only the five most popular articles in the four categories mentioned above, we also provide an option for you to click through the remaining articles in the most read list through the “See More News” link.
3. Share News/Flag News
One of the most requested updates for this feature has definitely been the ability to share news clips you find interesting with your professional network. With this update, you should be able to share news items both from the dashboard as well as from the expanded news segments.
Clicking through the share icon should enable your sharing the news article with your professional network on LinkedIn.
Given that time is of essence for any professional, we’d like to ensure that you and your peers are served only the most relevant news items within your professional network. So, we’re providing you an option to flag news items that are either duplicate or spam.
Stay tuned to the blog for further updates and continual enhancements. We’d love to hear from you on how we can make this feature even better. So, feel free to leave a comment or two.
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Adam Ostrow February 14th, 2008
Maybe I’m missing something, but how does one get to LinkedIn News? I can’t find it anywhere.
Peter February 14th, 2008
How do I enable the News? I have never seen it, not on the classic homepage and not on the Beta homepage.
Peter
Henk-Jan van der Klis February 15th, 2008
Hello,
Am I missing anything? I don’t have News tabs, sharing options, etc. after logging in. The only tabs I can see, are Home, People, Jobs&hiring, Services, Answers, My profile, My Contacts. Where can I find the News section?
Terry February 19th, 2008
I like the idea of the news section, and for me it almost works quite well. Whilst there is nothing ever on my company – fair enough, can’t help that – what would seal it for me would be if there was a way I could filter the news sources on my industry to those from the UK, rather than the US. That would be great, and very useful.
Jen Granito February 24th, 2008
Thank you very much for all of your comments and feedback. We have a lot of exciting news features coming out in the next few months and I am excited to hear your thoughts and ideas.
News is still in beta, therefore, not everyone is seeing it. In the coming months roll out a much broader distribution of news.
David Madison March 4th, 2008
The LinkedIn News is completely off base for my company. I think there must be more than 1 “Madison Technologies” in LinkedIn, because on occasion I get a “recently joined LinkedIn” from the company “Madison Technologies” and since I own the company, and know everyone who works there…I know these people aren’t from my company. So, I believe the issue with the News is the same. The problem with News is that I can’t change anything…or get rid of it. If I could somehow customize news and somehow link the news articles with the industry in my profile…THAT would be useful. Otherwise, at this point, it is merely an annoyance.
Charles Warloe April 3rd, 2008
I can’t figure out where it’s pulling the industry from. My news is coming from the “Ohio Air National Guard” which is not my primary industry, and only vaguely related to the fact that I am part-time in the Air Guard in Washington State.
It was pulling from staffing and technology before, which was great, but it suddenly shifted… what happened?
Remco K April 10th, 2008
My news is called “Remco news”. Remco is not my company, its my first name. So the news shown is not my company news.
One of my listed ‘employers’ is my own company, operating under my own name ‘Remco Kalf’. So probably there is another company called Remco which is wrongly connected to my profile’s news.
Besides that, the news shown is totally irrelevant to my company or industry.
Claire Mencke April 10th, 2008
PLEASE make this news feature optional, because I would like to opt out of it! The news you have been filling my screen up with is NOT NEWS to me: It is days or weeks or even months old, in some cases. I see a lot of news in a day, and most of it I don’t want to see more than once. Please pay attention to this request for once!
James Clark April 12th, 2008
The news feature is great, but is there a way we could add/share news about our industry that is not already posted on linkedin?
Mario Sundar April 28th, 2008
As Jen has already mentioned, we are listening to user feedback on inaccurate company news as well as flexibility in choosing the modules.
Thanks for your feedback. Stay tuned for feature enhancements to LinkedIn News.
Leni May 26th, 2008
I would like to create a group for my company and friends, and then subscribe to news outlets that are specific to our interests. Is this possible with LinkedIn news?
Dorota Dutkiewicz May 30th, 2008
I could see the News at the begining when the feature was launched. However now it’s missing for a long time. Is there any chance I can get it back?
Jen Granito June 1st, 2008
@James – You can add and share news by clicking on the “Submit a new article” button in the lower left hand corner of the news module on home.
@Dorota – If you are no longer seeing news on your home page you should try going back in to your profile and editing your position. Remove the company name and add try to re-add it, selecting the respective company name that appears in the company selector drop down menu.
Jen Granito June 1st, 2008
@Leni – All I can say is “stay tuned” :)