As a company that’s based on the mantra “Relationships Matter”; we want to make it easier than ever for you to find, organize and stay in touch with your business connections. Over the next few weeks, you will start seeing improvements to your LinkedIn address book that will help you be more productive. Feature details after the jump.
Browse and find your connections more easily
The most noticeable update is a new browse panel that allows you to browse your connections by their current companies, locations and industries. In addition, you can search your connections by entering their first name, last name or current company in the search box above the browse panel.
You can also browse your new connections and your connections who may have recently added a new connection by using the Recent Activity filter in the browse panel.
Mini-profiles and up-to-date contact information
View mini-profiles of your connections to see if they have changed their current positions, added any new connections or send them a message through a third column on the right.
You can look up contact information like phone numbers, email addresses and physical mailing addresses. You can also add this information yourself by editing the contact information of connections in your address book.
This new look offers the following additional features:
- Connections automatically tagged with keywords such as “colleagues”, “friends”, “partners” and “group members” based on information you provide when inviting them to connect with you
- Organize your connections into different groups via tags
- Send a message to multiple connections at once based on how you’ve organized them by tags
We look forward to hearing your feedback on these enhancements as we optimize their user experience. Note that these enhancements are currently in beta and you can opt-out of them during the trial period. Check out LinkedIn’s newly redesigned address book here.
- Topics:
- Address Book,
- New LinkedIn Features
Comments
Hi,
Is the ability to assign tags to connections available through the API ? thanks,
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Awesome!
This is a great new feature!
how do I try this in beta?
Sounds great- but when I click on your link at the bottom of this post (the link over the text ‘newly redesigned address book here’) it just shows me the same screen I’ve always seen.
Eventually, I’m hoping the ‘Quickly view and organize your connections? Select a category or individual to see contact info, send a message and more.’ will go away. I like my full space of connections spread left – right. Current presentation feels like a bunch of wasted space. Am I missing a way to modify this myself?
This is a great step in the right direction. LinkedIn is one of my favorite tools, and I encourage everyone to use it.
Great job team!
HI These improvements will make use of LinkedIn much better for most of the time we dont have time to view the full profile. SO Miniprofile i sreally good thing.
this is great BUT what would be a real great addition is the possibility to sync your linkedin contact details with outlook, meaning to update your outlook contacts (email addresses mainly) from the more current linkedin information. Perhaps that can be added in a new update
gerrit
This looks really nice! Could you make it possible to exchange the data of your connections with your mac address book? Like Facebook does?
I don’t get the new screen when I click on “newly redesigned address book here”. I see the same as before.
cool , gr8 idea to famous profile
I like this – but how can i see who has open an open network in this list, I train people on LinkedIn to help with their jobsearch and beofre you could see easily who had an open (browse) network and who had theirs closed.
Am I missing a trick or can you not easily see this anymore?
thanks
Lincoln
Looks nice.
Looks like some beneficial new functionality for browsing one’s connections. But it reminds me of my frustrations at the once-alphabetical-now-close-to-random listing of the connections of one’s connections. I’ll meet someone new, and they (or I) will say, “Let’s connect on LinkedIn, you can browse my connections, and I can help you hook up with a connection you’d like to meet.” The non-alphabetical nature makes that tougher. Why can’t we get that functionality back?
The recent intorductions in connections column is very easy for access and operations. Keep up.thankx.
vas
We’d also like the ability to actually sort contacts by these options (particularly by 1st name), rather than just searching for them or only by being able to sort by surname
Really useful for organising a lot of contacts.
Great upgrade! Can you add the Twitter field in the browser window so I can quickly see which of my connections are using twitter?
This comment is somewhat UNRELATED to this discussion thread:
It would be great if there could be a third option in the connection browse settings.
Yes, but only show my connections to those who show theirs.
I get tired of connection requests from people who block their connections. I also would like to post this as a poll and I am sure this will have a great response.
To be honest, I preferred the old layout for the “My Connections” page. I do like the new “filter connections” column on the left. The connections list is too narrow and the text layout is harder to skim down the list. Someone else mentioned this, too — that it was better having the list spread out left to right. The column on the right side can let you see a quick-view of each connection, but this quick-view doesn’t really give more information than what was already on the old list-format. So I’m still having to navigate to my contact’s full page to find the info. I’m looking for.
I think it would be perfect if you:
1. Remove the quick-view column on the My Connections page
2. Go back to the old format for the Contacts list
3. But keep the new menu on the left of the contacts list
Commendable job and No cost,
linkedin is building,bridging,creating paradigm shift the way people can communicate, come closer, hats of to linked in team, and its growing members,
I am glad that LinkedIn is continuing to make enhancements.. Thanks.
On connections, I would like a way to search my own connections and search my connections’ connections via keyword search.
This would be my vote for the next enhancements,
Thanks!
Hi Jatin,
This is all great improvement, but I like to add something you actually can easy establsh on the tags in our LI addressbooks.
I am sure no one wants to add tags to thousands of their contacts. But no harm done, many professional networks have used Outlook to categorize their connections which very much relates to tags, such as expertise, industry, etceteras). Actually if you look at Plaxo, they already have that feature to upload by categories and you can select your connections based on the categories you have organized in outlook.
I think LI can go a step further and upload the categories from outlook into the LI addressbook and enable then the functionality to select or search on contacts based on the tags (multiple should be possible) that have been created – this is the micro approach but it may also work from a macro approach when searching across LI.
In this perspective I also like to bring up the poll I had organized early February. Feel free to review the results and the comments. Definitely enriching!
http://polls.linkedin.com/p/75870/nmjdp
I am a biot struggling how to bring this demand up to Product evelopment now at LI, cause I believe there is so much value for both LinkedIn, marketers and the majority of users.
Feel free to contact me for mroe info or collaboration on this effort or let someone from Product Development contact me directly. Thanks
Joris Claeys
http://www.linkedin.com/in/knowledgenabler
I agree completely with Marci Reynolds. Being able to search a contact’s connections would be fantastic. I don’t see rhyme or reason in how my contact’s connections are organized — not alphabetically, not by institution, maybe by newness? and some are firstname, lastname and others are lastname, firstname.
Is there a way to post a new job on my profile without creating an announcment/update to my current connections?
Thanks,
John
Improperly placed semicolon in the first sentence is placed improperly. I know this because I am accurate with my punctual placement and pride myself on that ability… you might wanna do something about it: it may appeal to your users more with better accuracy.