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1. Sunil June 6th, 2008

   Now Linkedin share button along with other Sharing websites.

2. Paige Dumoulin June 6th, 2008

   Ok, this may be a little off topic, but with all the neat “things you can do now” additions to the site, why aren’t any of the simple “bugs” being taken care of first? Especially since many are paying members that actually are posting their links elsewhere which in turn brings you more business.

   Sincerely,
   Paige

3. Harish Keshwani June 6th, 2008

   Taylor, I appreciate you guys introducing these widgets. These are great tools. My concern is the life of these widgets. If I put this widget on my website or blog, what is the guarantee that you will continue to support it after few months? I am a group owner and have noticed that the “export the member list” link is suddenly missing from the groups. Now, there is no way to communicate with the group. What is the logic behind providing a service and then pulling the plug without informing the group owners. What good are these groups where you cannot communicate with them?

   Does Linkedin monitor/moderate “The Answers” section? I had posted the question about missing link to export members on LinkedIn Q&A. I received some answers that tell me how frustated people are with the groups.

   You do not have to post this comment, but any help with getting that export link back will be greatly appreciated.

   Thanks
   Harish

4. Bill June 6th, 2008

   This looked like a great feature. BUT — it returns an error when I try to use it.

5. Taylor Singletary June 6th, 2008

   @Paige – We’re always working on fixing bugs. If you want to report a bug you’d like to see fixed, you can do so here: http://www.linkedin.com/feedback?displayContactCustomerServiceFeedback=

   @Harish – Glad you like the tool. Regarding exporting member lists in groups: you can export your group lists by going to your ‘My Groups’ page, clicking the ‘Manage’ link next to the group you manage, and then the “Export Current Members” link. You’ll be able to export to CSV and VCF.

   @Bill – What gave you the error?

   - Taylor

6. Chase Roper June 7th, 2008

   Hi Taylor!

   I’m an avid blogger and LinkedIn user. I’m not sure how familiar you are with Feedburner, but they have a feature called “feedflare” which would allow user to take the url you provided and have it automatically be included after a post along with “email this article” “Sphere” “Technorati This!” “Stumble Me” etc. I tried to use the url given but it kicks it out. I’m just curious if there if you have figured out a way for blog authors to have this LinkedIn feature be fully integrated into their site as opposed to always manually modifying the url every time they post? I will keep working on it, and if I find something that works, I’ll send it your way!

7. Taylor Singletary June 9th, 2008

   @Chase, I love Feedburner. I will take a look at the feature you mentioned. We’re considering a number of ways to have this feature integrated with your favorite popular services. Because it’s pretty trivial to implement, I recommend you ask your favorite services to implement our share functionality by pointing them to the documentation page linked in the blog post.

   If you run your own blog and don’t have access to server-side technologies, you can add Javascript to your blog’s layout that can pre-populate most of the fields for your users in advance.

   We will keep you updated here with any new versions of the bookmarklet code, and to inform you on which of your favorite sites provides the Share on LinkedIn feature.

   Thanks,
   Taylor

8. Mark Wilbur June 29th, 2008

   My only issue with this LinkedIn “Share This” implementation is hard coding parameters within the URL link… the time it takes to do that for each article is a deterrant, when one also needs to consider that anyone reading my articles is going to want to send that out to people outside of their LinkedIn contacts as well, so there is a time consideration for all of these gadgets, whether it be on LinkedIn or a WidgetBox gadget, that we have to evaluate before to implement. What I”m finding lately is lots of neat little tools don’t actually save that much time at all, versus conventional means of pushing content, and after the novelty wears off, so does the utility.
   I do like the idea of being able to share it within the LinkedIn Contact base, but my issue would be a redundant process for any of my readers who want to send the content to people inside and outside of LI..they will have to use the ShareThis button and then the LinkedIn button separately. But the biggest issue is also parameter coding the URL firstly. Those two issues combined make it less likely to catch on for my community users. If LinkedIn simplified it by creating a javascript code similar to the “Share This” widget code, so it does not have to be hard coded with parameters (or atleast make it fewer params), and adding a functionality to also send it to additional email addresses simaltaneously, that would be super.

9. Jonathan W. Smith July 10th, 2008

   this widget is a cool idea but it is *way* too cumbersome to use. by the time i get all the coding right, i could have cut and pasted the article and sent it to everbody in my contact list. you can do better than this… jws

10. Dale July 23rd, 2008

    I have tried several times to use the share technique/buttons. It always asks me to add a contact, even after I have added one. It gives me an error message:Please correct the marked field(s) below.

    Also, it is not at all intuitive that one needs to begin typing the names of connections in the to box .

    Dale

11. Blake Ratcliff August 17th, 2008

    News features are great and I’ve enjoyed. It seems to me a book review and member publications would be complimentary in a similar vein.

    Susan Shwartz and others have suggested this and I second. I believe this would add tremendously to the value of the site and is potentially a significant money maker for the site as book sources could be tied in automatically for placing orders and gaining revenue for LinkedIn.

12. Bobbi Jo Woods August 27th, 2008

    One concern I have with LinkedIn groups is that I cannot currently seem to use HTML tags in our group home page’s description.

    As it is now, our description is more than a sentence long, so any line breaks we insert with a hard return are being ignored by the form field, and results in one long smooshed-together up run-on paragraph, which makes us look bad!

    Is this being implemented? I would be one of the first in line to vote for it!

    Thanks for your consideration,

13. Stacy Surla October 15th, 2008

    I still don’t see the Export Current Members feature. Will that feature be reinstated? Is there another way to download or view the info for all members at once?

14. lancerucher October 28th, 2008

    I thought i am going to see a sample here but i did not.
    What really is the function of this widget?

    http://cebuimage.blogspot.com

15. Dominic Lüthi January 5th, 2009

    I got a recommendation which I would like to have updated by the author.

    But all my trials to resend it are ending up in the error message “Please correct the marked field(s) below.”

     There must be something wrong, since there is no other field that the recommendation itself. (which I edited several times)

    Can anyone help me?

    BR, DL.

16. Mario Sundar January 6th, 2009

    @Dominic,
    I’ve forwarded your request to our Customer Service team.

    Also, feel free to refer to our Customer Support site that answers many of the most often asked questions:

    http://linkedin.custhelp.com/

    Hope this helps.
    Mario from LinkedIn

17. Jesper Bisgaard January 12th, 2009

    Hi, I am adding share buttons to a site but when I try to share the links with contacts on linkedIn the url is deemed invalid and I get an error page. After a huge amount of testing it seems that it is the # in our url which causes an error, have anyone else experienced this?

    the example url is: http://www.mixtoverdener.dk/#/180849/?play_id=187860

18. Jesper Bisgaard January 12th, 2009

    Never mind, problem solved by making some corrections to the site index file and the url passed to linkedIn.

19. Madoda January 19th, 2009

    New Year’s resolutions of a marketing entrepreneur
    By: Jo Duxbury

    While industry experts are writing thoughtful articles on their predictions for 2009, my crystal ball is more decorative than functional. Considering the surprises the world threw at us in 2008, I’m substituting predictions with resolutions to help my businesses – and me – thrive this year.

    Three years ago I shed my suit, resigned from an ad agency and started my own ‘marketing matchmaker’ business, It’s been scary, exhilarating, fun, challenging, exhausting, thrilling, frustrating, rewarding – but never boring. It’s also completely unpredictable.

    But then, so is the world these days. Who would have thought a year ago that we’d be in a global recession (most of us were more preoccupied with load-shedding schedules); that America would be ushering in a president who epitomises hope and change for so many; and that the Proteas would thump the Aussies down under in such convincing style?

    So here are my resolutions for the New Year:

    1. I will not wake up and find it’s already October. I will set goals and work towards them. Someone gave me a bookmark when I was about 12 years old on which was written: “Only as high as you reach can you grow”. More recently, one of my mentors drummed into me that ‘what gets measured gets done’. Enough procrastinating: time to make lists, crunch numbers and make things happen.
    2. I will do a regular client audit. I will continue to assess whether my clients are worth keeping. Those who are high maintenance, low value or whose work isn’t aligned with my vision and strategy will be reviewed and, if necessary, dismissed gently.
    3. I will be proactive about learning and growing my businesses. Growth is only possible through stretching, challenges and perhaps a bit of a push. There’s a lot I still don’t know about business and, being a bit of a nerd, I love learning. I will seek courses, programmes and mentors. And while selling a share of ‘my baby’ scares me, I’ve realised that a smaller share of a larger business can be better than stunting growth by holding on too tightly. So I will be looking for investment and/or funding as well as support and training.
    4. I will only participate in projects that I am interested in. It’s tempting to say ‘yes’ to everything but spreading myself too thin is a risk. I will make strategic decisions about what to get involved with this year based on my passions and the people I’ll be working with. Ten percent of my time will be allocated to pro bono work and I’ll try to stick to that. Last year I spent more time on unpaid work than on generating revenue. Not a luxury I can afford – yet.
    5. I will collaborate (carefully). Two highlights of 2008 for me were forming a loose collective with three other freelance writers/editors; and collaborating to run the first two Flying Solo ‘unconferences’. These, and other collaborations, taught me a great deal and I hugely enjoyed the senses of camaraderie and fun that came with it. I also learnt to choose my collab-colleagues carefully and ensure that our values and expectations are properly aligned and agreed up front.
    6. I will automate or outsource as much as I can. My time is limited and as I become more involved in a range of projects, I need to spend my time on the things I do best and in the areas that I can make the most useful contribution. These don’t include a lot of my day-to-day admin, filing and my taxes. I’m very particular so this is going to be a tough one, but it needs to happen.
    7. I will limit negative news. Without burying my head in the sand, I will control what news I receive, through reputable local and international online resources. Jim Carrey was recently quoted as saying, “…if you watch the news, that’s not the world; that’s a condensed version of everything negative that’s happening.” I will not believe everything I hear either, particularly stories of doom and gloom. I will stay positive and firm in my belief that tough times can be the most exciting – and that necessity fosters creativity and ideas.
    8. I will stop propagating information overload. I will only issue press releases, articles and post or comment on blogs if I have something of value to say; if I’ve given them proper thought. Before every tweet, I will ask myself: “Will anyone really care about this? Really?” I will not create content because I feel I have to; instead I’d rather wait until I have a useful contribution to make. I will use social media sites for their intended purposes. For me that means Facebook = social; LinkedIn = business.
    9. I will stop being overwhelmed by information overload. I will be ruthless in pruning my RSS feeds and the list of those I follow on Twitter. I will no longer feel guilty that I have not read TechCrunch’s 30+ daily posts or feel obliged to subscribe to people’s streams just because they follow me. I unplugged for a week over New Year and d’you know what? The world didn’t stop. Anything that is really important will reach me; the rest is just noise.
    10. I will not limit myself – or let others limit me. Just because I’m based in South Africa doesn’t mean I can’t have international clients, colleagues or influence. The Internet brings the world to us, regardless of where we are. Great things are only achieved by thinking big. 2009 is going to be ‘two thousand and MINE’.

20. Val Cummins January 29th, 2009

    I’ve tried using this from a JOOMLA website – and it seems the link is getting cut in half or less – seems to happen at the & sign in the link:
    http://www.nojobjitters.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=111:soar-like-a-hawk&catid=67:choosing-a-career&Itemid=2

    Is this a problem at your end or mine?? ;-)

    Val

21. Val Cummins January 29th, 2009

    Solved my own problem ;-)
    Sometimes it just works out that way….
    Great widget – thank you! I’ll be using this one.

    Val

22. Leah Daniels February 2nd, 2009

    We love the Share on LinkedIn button but have a question/possible enhancement request. If you select that you want to share with your connections and type in the letter “A” in the “To:” line you only get a subset of your connections and they aren’t organized by last name. How do you retrieve all of your connections whose last name appears under “A” under your contacts tab?

    Thanks,
    Leah

23. Mario Sundar February 6th, 2009

    @Val,

    We don’t truncate URLs but I’ve sent this over to the product team. Feel free to ping me or leave a comment if you continue encountering this problem.

    Mario from LinkedIn

24. dominik zynis March 10th, 2009

    u guys need to implement this…

    http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?answer=78966&topic=13246

25. dirkfrey March 23rd, 2009

    @ Leah- This feature should now be available. Just start typing the first name of your connection on the Compose your message page and a drop down list should appear. Thanks for your feedback!

26. Phil Redding March 25th, 2009

    On June 6th 08 (above) you stated that exporting contacts had not been removed.

    I think that it has now.

    I need to communicate with my group and the ‘Send Announcement’ feature does not allow me to do so with a file that I need to distribute.

    How can I export my group member contact details?

27. dirkfrey April 2nd, 2009

    @Phil – The ability for group owners and managers to download a .csv file no longer exists. I will forward your concern for on to our product manager to consider in future groups ‘Announcement’ enhancements. In the mean while I do see other Announcements directing members to a link on their official group website where they can get the file you wish to distribute.

28. Patrick Connery April 22nd, 2009

    Hm – This is interesting.
    http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickconnery

29. Bill Cross May 22nd, 2009

    This is waaaaay too complicated for easy use. I’m a Blogger blogger, and I can’t figure out how to add this widget without it becomeing homework.

    How about starting with an icon I can add that links my blog to Linked In or my group?