LinkedIn: Coming Soon to an Inbox near you!
Here at LinkedIn, we are always looking for ways to make the world’s professionals more effective through the use of their network. Today, I’m happy to announce the first of several upcoming product features being built through a partnership with IBM’s Lotus, which extends the availability of LinkedIn functionality to Lotus Notes.
Here are three key LinkedIn features that 140 million Lotus Notes users can look forward to:
1. Network Updates
Keep track of your broader professional network through an integrated stream of LinkedIn Network Updates.
By using Network Updates to keep track of what projects are being worked on, what questions are being asked, and what connections are being made in one’s professional network, you can stay more engaged and up-to-date in your professional life. The LinkedIn Lotus Notes integration makes viewing your Network Updates a seamless part of your daily activities, by placing them within the inbox that you already use every day.
2. People Search
Another feature to supercharge your Inbox is the ability to use LinkedIn’s People Search with one-click:
Easily look up that new contact you’ve just made or the attendees of an upcoming meeting. You can even find contacts at a given company or with a given skill, just as you would on the LinkedIn site. So if you need that expert in mobile technology, open source, or Ruby on Rails, just put the right keywords into the search box to see who in your professional network can assist.
3. LinkedIn Profiles
Once you find who you need, you can also view their LinkedIn Professional Profile right within Notes:
Lotus Notes will make profile look ups simple by hyper-linking names to a one-click LinkedIn search. Just click on an unfamiliar name in an e-mail and instantly view the associated LinkedIn profile. And when you do find that right contact, the ability to send them a message or connect with them on LinkedIn is always available.
Those familiar with the LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar may recognize similar functionality. However, by working with IBM directly on the Notes integration, we’ve been able to make it richer, more seamless, and more robust. These are just first steps in a broad partnership that we’re announcing today with IBM.
As we pursue our vision of bringing LinkedIn to inboxes everywhere, we plan to work with other partners to bring a similarly rich integration to your favorite email client.
We look forward to your thoughts on these and future directions in comments to this post.
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richardbeeman January 19th, 2009
Great, but what about Outlook and when?
A. Pace January 19th, 2009
When is LinkedIn going to allow us the opportunity to update our LinkedIn status via Twitter?
Michael Masterson January 19th, 2009
Thanks to the team at LinkedIn for helping pull this initial proof point together. We’ll have more details in the near future and look forward to getting this out to the LinkedIn Lotus community for preview!
–Michael
Martin January 20th, 2009
Great feature !!! for Notes user like me.
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rolandhesz January 20th, 2009
Any chance that there will be something like this for Mozilla Thunderbird or any of the free e-mail clients out there?
Also, is there any word on the LinkedIn API? Have not heard much about it since 2007 June.
Thanks for the info.
rolandhesz January 20th, 2009
Oops, sorry, disregard my question about the API, I found the answers on the previous post. Thank you anyway.
marina mann January 20th, 2009
hello linkedin,
sorry to post a support message here but i could not find any other way to contact support without logging in.
here is my problem: i am a frequent user of your site and an advocate, however in the last few months, i’ve been experiencing extreme difficulty accessing your site. your site is timing out or taking up to 3 – 4 minutes to load a page, making the site unusable for me.
What I’ve done to try to resolve so far:
i’ve contacted Sympatico.ca, my Internet provider in Canada and they fixed a timeout that was happening on their server. they tell me that another series of timeouts are happening on your servers at the 12th or 13th hop.
i’ve copied and pasted a traceroute to help you see where the timeout is happening.
Marinas-Mac:~ marinamann$ traceroute linkedin.com
traceroute to linkedin.com (64.74.98.86), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 3.291 ms 2.894 ms 2.295 ms
2 bas1-toronto09_lo0_SYMP.net.bell.ca (64.230.197.215) 15.304 ms 20.192 ms 17.081 ms
3 core1-toronto12_13-0-5_148.net.bell.ca (64.230.139.193) 15.485 ms 13.195 ms 11.812 ms
4 core4-toronto12_POS0-1.net.bell.ca (64.230.242.197) 13.985 ms 13.402 ms 13.573 ms
5 bx4-toronto12_so-1-0-0.net.bell.ca (64.230.158.26) 14.520 ms 13.682 ms 13.656 ms
6 peer-limelight_bx4-toronto12.net.bell.ca (64.230.134.34) 14.292 ms 15.523 ms 24.794 ms
7 ve5.fr4.yyz.llnw.net (69.28.171.142) 14.237 ms 14.332 ms 13.654 ms
8 tge1-3.fr4.ord.llnw.net (69.28.172.69) 28.752 ms 28.658 ms 28.382 ms
9 linkedin.tge3-2.fr4.ord.llnw.net (208.111.156.74) 31.678 ms 30.015 ms 30.631 ms
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Jaki Suter January 20th, 2009
How soon do you think these features will be ready for prime time?
Adam Brown January 20th, 2009
How do we get it?
Dave in SV January 22nd, 2009
Since Linked appears to be morphing into a Web 2.0 Contact Manager, why not go whole hog and add a bunch more contact manager features (like ACT for example)? (for example, instead of one huge field to write notes in, upgrade that to include fields for time, date, medium of contact (e-mail, phone, letter, fax) remarks/notes and then put some reporting capabilities for this, for example, reports like who was called for a given time period (day, week, month, quarter), etc. Also, I would like to be able to create my own industry groups and assign contacts to them.
Lois K. Geller January 28th, 2009
On my LinkedIn home page, there was an ad for LinkedIn ads that I might take out to reach a targeted audience.
I clicked on targeted specifically to my audience (advertising and marketing professionals), and the auto-responder said that I didn’t qualify because I didn’t have enough contacts (almost 400), or for some other reason.
What would that reason be? Maybe LinkedIn might make the terms and conditions for advertising here…be listed on the ad.
Thank you,
Lois K. Geller
President
Lois Geller Marketing Group
Hollywood, Florida 33019
Lee Mayer January 31st, 2009
LinkedIn is so powerful and growing every day, one challenge is managing those people who are not yet in your network but you want to connect with.
LinkedIn needs a simple “tagging” solution so while you are scanning through a connections contacts you can “tag it” to search for at future date – currently the way I work around this is to bookmark their linkedin url – any tagging features on the product roadmap?
Shashi February 3rd, 2009
Can we have the same feature for MS Outlook as well?
Thanks,
Shashi
dominoconsultant February 9th, 2009
This will be a great feature for our organization. Put me on the list for preview and I’ll test it on Notes 8.5 on Ubuntu Linux.
MikeSmith@dominoconsultant.org
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Agatha Brown February 22nd, 2009
It is obvious there is a tremendous amount of talent among LinkedIn users and I am sure many have written books or articles that would be of interest to all Linkedin users. It would be great if there were a Linkedin segment to post these books and/or articles specifying categories of interest with a brief description as well as where the books can be purchased. It would also be another way to get to know Linkedin users from their published works and create business opportunities.
sydney.trattner March 12th, 2009
LINKEDOUT: TIMEOUT ON LINKED IN…HELP..HELP
For 3 months I have been trying to sign-in to Linked in. Have tried 5 different computers, 3 different browsers, cleared cookies, flushed DNS caches – I have done it all..can’t connect to customer service either and all over the net – including here (look at MArina Mann’s post above)people all over the world are complaining about the same problem. What is wrong with the people behind Linkedin that they cannot respond or fix the problem. In fact not being able to sign in, means not being able to answer invites, messages or job possibilities…Linkedin is only serving to Linkedmeout!!!
dirkfrey March 23rd, 2009
@ sydney,
We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced. I have escalated this issue on to our Customer Service group and they will be contacting you within the next two days to trouble shoot your specific issue.
dirkfrey March 23rd, 2009
@ Agatha Brown- I have forwarded your comments on to the product managers for consideration in future releases. Thanks for your suggestion.
Richard June 16th, 2009
When will this be available?
Rob Colbourn October 27th, 2009
Did this get released? I’ve just signed up, and am loving the potential that LinkedIn has for driving my business forwards – this looks like great functionality, and as I have Lotus Notes already, wondered how to make the most of it?
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