News Recommendation and Discovery Improvements
Following the announcement of LinkedIn News we regularly been shipping improvements and built on top of the existing functionality. We are continuously adding companies that are able to see news as well as news queries that should be relevant for those companies. Additionally we are constantly adding new sources for which we pull, we have added news sharing, company discussions around news articles, and last week Armin Ahumada improved how you can recommend an article and Eishay Smith improved how we add syndicated feeds (such as RSS and ATOM) to our fetcher.
1. Recommendation Improvements
Almost everywhere that you see new, you will see a thumb’s-up. There are three different states:
Grey = no one has recommended or commented on the article
Blue = someone within your company has recommended or commented on the article
Blue with orange rays = you have recommended or commented on the article.
The benefit to having these states is that it allows you to look at all of the news that is provided to you and scan for articles that your co-workers have engaged with and it helps you decide which articles you would like to take the time to read.
2. News Discovery
When users submit a new article to the site, we are paying attention to the source the article is from. If we are not getting articles from that source already, we will check to see if the publisher has any syndication feeds that we can fetch news from. If you are a blogger or a professional online journal in a niche category, it can be hard for us to find you. To start seeing your own content on LinkedIn organically, promote your blog or publication on LinkedIn by listing it as a website on your profile or share your blog posts with your company and connections by “Submitting a new article”. On that note, we are doing our best to provide our members news of high quality so this does not guarantee news distribution on the LinkedIn, but it definitely won’t hurt :)
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http://blog.linkedin.com/2008/06/26/news-recommenda/trackback/
Zia July 1st, 2008
Jen
Many thanks for these.
May I please make a suggestion? I think tagging of contacts (as done in Xing) should be seriously considered. I have so many contacts and tagging would offer a great way to filter and access these.
Derek Tumolo July 21st, 2008
Can you add a feature where I can passively promote an article outside my company? I’ve found an interesting article, but its valuable to people from my previous companies, and my network in general. However, it’s not the kind of article that I want to send, I just want it passively available, and recommended by me. More like posting on facebook, less like emailing old colleagues.
Also, I would love a bookmarklet once I can do the above.
Jennifer Granito July 21st, 2008
@ Derek – Currently the only way to share news with someone other than your company group is to share it with up to 10 of your connections. We are working on expanding the functionality of this feature so that news articles of imortance can more easily reach the connections you want them to. Thanks for the feedback!
Jeffrey Fry August 20th, 2008
It might be a good idea to be able to resend “Recommendation Requests” much like you can send invitation requests. Right now, you cannot re-sent a request to a recommendation, nor archive it, nor modify it (unless I am missing something?).
I find recommendations more important than connections at this juncture.
Warmly,
Jeffrey Fry
Amit January 29th, 2009
How do I delete a article I have posted earlier?
Many thanks,
Amit
Mario Sundar February 6th, 2009
@Amit,
You can delete an article by accessing the discussion page of the group you’re either contributing to or group manager of. Hope that answers your question.
Mario from LinkedIn
Paul Laberge July 2nd, 2009
I don’t like the fact that writing a comment makes me appear to have recommended an article. Some comments apply to articles that I don’t agree with at all. I will refrain from commenting until this has been corrected.
Thanks!
David Kirk September 14th, 2009
How do I delete a news article from a group?
Dirk Frey September 15th, 2009
News can only be deleted by the Group owner or manager. Here is the answer posted in our Customer Service Center. I found it by searching using the key words like ‘delete news from group’. Pay special attention to step 3. I hope this helps.
Deleting a News Item in Groups:
http://linkedin.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linkedin.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1708