Linkedin Blog

We are thrilled to introduce Creative Portfolio Display, an invaluable application for creative professionals within LinkedIn and beyond.

For too long, creative professionals in industries such as advertising, fashion, design, architecture, film, photography, and digital media have lacked tools to efficiently manage their portfolios and showcase their talent. Personal websites don’t adequately broadcast your work for discovery by industry peers and top companies and neither is it tied to your professional identity on the web. Plus, keeping your work samples up to date on multiple websites is inefficient, resulting in portfolios becoming outdated and forgotten.

Last week saw the launch of JD Supra’s Legal Updates, an InApp that brings timely legal news and commentary to everyone on LinkedIn. Legal Updates publishes a feed of legal content matched to your profession or industry, and allows you to connect directly to any lawyer whose work you’ve read and insights you value.

As part of our continuing series featuring our employees, we’re turning you over to Dan Yoo. Although many of our employees would describe themselves as entrepreneurial, Dan channels his passion as a foodie into investing in a brick and mortar business — a restaurant in the Financial District of San Francisco called Stone Korean Kitchen. Here he talks about how social sharing helped him increase sales in a measurable way.

When I started at LinkedIn about a year ago, I expected the work to be challenging and exciting. I was right. In addition, thinking about and working with social technologies has had a huge impact on how I and my fellow investors (including my colleague, Robby Kwok) promote Stone Korean Kitchen, a project we started with a third partner who runs the business full-time. We actively engage through our company page on LinkedIn and similar business pages on Yelp and Facebook. Also, we broadcast news and promotions through Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook and Yelp to drive business to the restaurant. These social channels also help us find out what our customers think about us, and we use the feedback to address problems.

Ed. note: Jose Mallabo’s last Q&A blog post was on the topic of LinkedIn and Social Networking in India. Since then we’ve hired a country manager in India and we continue to grow at a rapid clip in that part of the world. We also recently added our 6 millionth LinkedIn member there, which seemed like perfect timing for a blog Q&A with Hari V. Krishnan, our country manager in India.