Announcing LinkedIn Events
LinkedIn Groups and LinkedIn Answers cater to two of the three most important activities professionals engage in to further their career and starting today, we’re launching the third and most important piece of that puzzle – LinkedIn Events.
Now all LinkedIn users should be able to find events and conferences that are most suitable for your career based a combination of your professional network and information culled from your LinkedIn profile. Given below are the key touch points for LinkedIn Events starting on your homepage:
1. Receive Event Recommendations
The first time you encounter LinkedIn events on your homepage, you will be shown conferences and other professional events that match your specific business needs based on the information you’ve added to your LinkedIn profile; such as criteria Job Title, Industry, etc. These are carefully selected from our database of eight thousand plus event listings provided by sources that range from Techweb to Eventbrite.
2. Search for Events by Industry, Date, Location
I’m sure many professionals would also be interested in perusing our database of events to find ones that they’d like to follow or attend based on speakers, topics, conference organizer… This can be done on your Events browse page. And, furthermore, if you search, your results can be filtered by other criteria such as industry, date and how close events are being held to your location.
3. See Attendees going to specific Events
The power of LinkedIn Events is magnified when you’re able to prune your list of events by finding those events your professional network plan to attend. This allows you to focus just on the events that matter to you, and make the connections that are so important to all our careers.
4. Indicate your participation status
Don’t forget to let your network know if you are participating in an event — it’s part of your professional reputation. On LinkedIn Events, you can tell everyone you that are (i) Attending, (ii) Presenting, or (iii) Exhibiting. Updating your event status not only broadcasts to your professional network, but will also be added to your digital resume on your profile.
5. Event Updates and History
As with all other activities on LinkedIn, you can also see network updates on events from your professional network both on the LinkedIn Events page as well as a history of all the events that you’ve either attended or plan on attending.
In addition, we have at launch over eight thousand events, including events from high profile organizers such as:
- Techweb Live Events (Web 2.0 Expo, Enterprise 2.0 Expo, CSI, and more)
- Deutsche Messe/Hannover Fairs USA (CeBit, DOMOTEX, ISIS, and more)
- HSM Global (World Innovation Forum, World Business Forum, and more)
LinkedIn has also partnered with Eventbrite, a leading provider of online event management and ticketing services, to provide LinkedIn with information about events related to their users.
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Jillian November 7th, 2008
Hi there,
I’m excited about this new application launch, but have some questions and comments.
It would be great to see events on your home page are directed at not only your job industry, etc. (which it already does), but your geographic location….
I know that you can search events in your area, but it doesn’t seem to work all that well. I narrowed my search by geographic location (Greater Chicago Area) and there will still events showing up in Philadelphia.
Thanks and good luck!
Jillian
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peter caputa November 7th, 2008
So, I can’t add events????
Bill Johnston, Forum One Networks November 7th, 2008
Congrats, this seems to be a very useful feature.
Seems there may still be a few bugs, though. For instance, I’m in the process of trying to claim an event that I am hosting, and my changes aren’t being saved.
http://www.linkedin.com/osview/canvas?_ch_page_id=1&_ch_panel_id=1&_ch_app_id=30&_applicationId=2000&appParams={%22from%22%3A%22browse%22%2C%22event_search_id%22%3A29911%2C%22go_to%22%3A%22events%2F7942%22}&_ownerId=2651129&completeUrlHash=TSvF
Jack Mardack November 7th, 2008
Congratulations on the launch, LinkedIn.
Eventbrite is very pleased to now be able to distribute our vast directory of business events to this valuable audience.
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I’m with Peter (@pc4media on Twitter btw). What’s the use if I can’t add events? Who at LinkedIN knows DesignCon 2009 http://designcon.com is important to me?
Suzi Dafnis November 8th, 2008
I seem to be having trouble with the time of the event.
Are there restrictions to the format/duration?
My event goes from 10.30am til 11.30am
Thanks
Suzi
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rolandhesz November 8th, 2008
I like it! However, when I search for events in Budapest I got nothing. When I search for events in Hungary, I got 2 events, both in Budapest.
So it needs a bit of testing yet.
Rianne November 8th, 2008
Nice feature.
Unfortunately there is no sort in date. Would it be possible to add that? chronological/ a-chronological
tx
Dan November 8th, 2008
Blackberry app!!! C’mon!
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Philip Calvert November 9th, 2008
Nice new feature, but it won’t accept the end time for my event.
It also changed the location of my event and asked me to correct it if it’s incorrect. The change the system made is not correct and it won’t let me change it back.
What a shame.
Philip
Teresa Boze November 9th, 2008
Wondering at the settings and filtering for the events on LinkedIn.
Many, many professional network weaving and business-oriented social events from Yahoo! Upcoming unlisted in LinkedIn Events for Portland Oregon area.
We are the screaming hot bed of social-networking-to-events. We have the highest use rate of Twitter. We have an openssource community that produces the most innovative products on the planet. We have Google technology event calendars for all categories of and roles. We boast alternative energy companies, startups galore, and one of the most effective and … well linked in… nonprofit communities on the planet that includes a 10K-plus subscriptions to a local online networking community.
All that is listed on LinkedIn Events is a BZB stamping hobbyist place and a tour of a building that everyone sees crossing any bridge in town. No new and useful information is being tapped.
If you need help with your SEO/SEM setting and filtering, I would be happy to be of service.
Sincerely,
Teresa
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Brygida Walczak November 9th, 2008
Hi,
Events are great idea !
Is there a widget available already ?
Reading other people messages, well, maybe you should make it clear this is still a beta app…
Good luck!
Brygida
MItch Baldwin November 10th, 2008
Christina,
Looking forward to using LinkedIn Events.
It will be nice to have this important information available here on LinkedIn.
Good luck!
Warmly,
Mitch
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Christina Wodtke November 14th, 2008
I want to thank all for your terrific advice and insights. We had a few bumps in our first week, but thanks to folks like you we’ve smoothed those out. I’d like to encourage you to add events, and try those searches again.
While our database now holds 10K events, there are a lot more out there in the universe! Keep adding in events you know about– even a title and a URL can be helpful.
We’ve got many new features coming out in the near future– we’re in rapid iteration mode. So keep a close eye on Events. We’ve only just begun!
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Although the events feature may be good for some I for one would like to be able to switch it off and only activate when I have a need to attend an event… as it is there are over 6,000 events listed so to go through all of them to indicate my “no interest” is impossible.. please can the developers allow us to switch this feature off..
Many thanks
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Kerry Larkan November 22nd, 2008
looks like a top tool for someone like me who is a pro speaker and author.
Very cool
Cheers
Kerry
lucien engelen November 24th, 2008
Could it be possible to use evenets only to members of a specific group or groups ?
Not only it narrows the search but also attention for specific events in your interest is enlarged i think. reat feature btw !
Lucien Engelen
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csalomonlee December 30th, 2008
How does one delete an event? can’t change to TBD as there must be a date included. Please let me know as one event is being changed.
Andrew Kristensen January 12th, 2009
Hi Christina,
As a LinkedIn Group Manager, I am anxiously waiting for you to expand the Event feature to allow “closed group events”; Events that are only open to members, or the Group Manager has to approve requests to join the event.
Are you working on this feature? If so, can you give an estimation of when it would be available?
Sincerely,
Andrew Kristensen
Parry Malm January 30th, 2009
Love it. Is there a widget available? Need a badge to put on my websites…
Mario Sundar January 30th, 2009
Not yet, @Parry,
But that’s good feedback and I’ve forwarded it to the events team.
Alternatively, you can link to the event from either your blogs or other websites. Hope that helps.
Mario from LinkedIn
Kai February 24th, 2009
where’s the sort by date feature?
also, can we have a month by month filter, eg: Jan, Feb, March instead of Jan-March?
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Jonathan Stanton March 2nd, 2009
Is this feature still in beta? I created an event last week and now it has disappeared.
Some enhancements you might consider:
1) allow me to choose what industry/industries I want to see events for. I work in three different industries, but right now my LinkedIn events viewer is defaulting to one of them and I can’t change it.
2) allow me to filter the events viewer for events that are either in my area, or virtual. Travel budgets are limited in this economy.
3) make it easy to post an event to a Linkedin group to publicize it – or even to forward an event to someone in your LinkedIn network (not your entire network, just selected people).
Ashley Waddell March 6th, 2009
Any way we can add an events “tab” to LinkedIn Groups?
It would be great to be able to view all of a group’s events from that group’s profile page, and as Andrew Kristensen recommended, be able to invite Group members to closed events.
George Renz March 11th, 2009
I’m encouraged by Christina’s comment that “we’ve only just begun”. I’d like to add my vote for expanding the Events function, especially for Groups. It would be incredibly useful to be able to schedule events for a group, perhaps optionally choosing whether the event is still publicly visible (perhaps in a read-only mode, perhaps hiding the participants or some event details?) or private (accessible only to group members). Somehow linking a group event calendar with a Google Calendar might be very interesting and useful as well, especially given the ability to sync Google calendars with Outlook and mobile phones. Might we see Group Calendars soon?
bobsawey March 14th, 2009
Hi,
Please if you can, make this calendar exportable like facebook events are, so I can put them in my google calendar and sync it up with my devices.
Thanks!
Bob
dirkfrey March 23rd, 2009
@ Jonathan,
In regards to your event, this may have been an isolated event. If the issue is still present please contact our Customer Service area by clicking on the ‘Customer Service’ link at the bottom of your home page. Thanks forthe enhancement suggestions. Your comments have been shared with the appropriate product manager for consideration in future releases.
Dr. Goulu March 26th, 2009
adding a way to restrict visibility of an event to the members of a specified group would be a great (and simple) enhancement.
Jose Uzcategui April 5th, 2009
This application is great. A tab for “Events” should be on the main header so others can find it easily.
smwebroi April 16th, 2009
Yes! Love the feature, but desperately want an ‘events’ tab for my groups. Please?
Kevin J May 8th, 2009
LinkedIn is great! Can we get another feature?
Have you used the events application? It’s a good feature. If your connections are attending events you will be able to cross reference multiple events and make new plans based within.
Can we have an additional feature for this application whereas using the power of events added to the groups? This will explode the groups by adding the value of event networking in the discussion functionality of the groups.
LinkedIn is great! Can we get another feature?
Where are you going today?
RM Rayle May 8th, 2009
Please add an Events tab to Linkedin Groups header and allow private events for group members only.
It would be really useful to allow each event to have a mini-forum so that comments, questions, and answers could be posted relative to each event…. before, during, and after the event. The basic template should include links to live Twitter/audio/video feeds so that remote attendees can post during the event.
There could be an option for event organizers to have private discussions among themselves as they prepare for the event (or a link to a collaboration site for organizers/presenters).
After events discussions should be allowed to continue until the event owner closes them… then still be available for reference via links to related events, other events in a series, periodic events, etc.
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Ed Callahan May 13th, 2009
It’s not obvious to me how I can communicate with people who sign up for or who indicate interest in an event I own.
InMail doesn’t count, nor does an introduction. What would work nicely would be the message capability currently available in groups for any member in the group to communicate via a LinkedIn brokered message to any other member, one at a time. Also nice would be group owner like privileges to send a message to all people who have signed up for the event.
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Dirk Frey May 19th, 2009
@RM – We are getting a lot of feedback on how groups could use events. I have forwarded your suggestions on to our product team for consideration in future releases. Thanks for your suggestions.
Dirk Frey May 19th, 2009
@Ed – At this time the feature allows you to post comments. I have forwarded your comment on to our Events group as they continue to look for enhancements to the product. Thanks.
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