Linkedin Blog

At LinkedIn, we’ve been so inspired by the It Gets Better Project and are very proud to add our employees’ voices into the conversation. Amidst our 80 million members are countless examples of people who have proven that it truly does get better. Sexual orientation has no impact on someone’s ability to contribute to an organization.  What we’ve learned through this campaign is that it is definitely worth it to hang on through challenging periods in order to discover how your personal experiences can contribute to the world. Here are a few of our employees who did just that.  And, we are so glad they did.

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I’m pleased to announce a much requested addition to our existing group moderation toolset, which we launched recently to help group managers reduce spam and maintain a high level of quality in professional group conversations. Starting today, group managers can adjust user permissions to determine an approval process  before that content is displayed. This allows group managers to weed out spam before it pollutes your groups conversation stream.

Managers now have highly granular control over the type of content requiring moderation, and they can determine the duration of a “trial period” by setting the number of days a new member has to be in the group before being able to post freely. The flexibility of this new tool will also apply to digest emails that group members have signed up to receive each week.

Since the launch of the BlackBerry Torch and other new BlackBerry OS 6.0 devices, our users have been quite eager to have the LinkedIn experience on their new phone. The team and I are excited to announce the release of LinkedIn for BlackBerry v1.5 with BlackBerry OS 6.0 support

Download LinkedIn for BlackBerry v1.5

Ed. note: This belongs to a series of posts on how numerous websites, products and services are integrating LinkedIn functionality through our API. This post is from John Yamasaki, Director of Community and Partnerships at Seesmic, where he talks about the recent LinkedIn integration with Seesmic Desktop 2.

Seesmic is a popular social client that allow users to easily access their social networks in one application and successfully manage their online presence. From web to mobile or email to chat, Seesmic is an easy way to manage all of your social services on any online platform.

Currently, there are a number of social networks many of us are members of. But the term “networking” was once exclusively associated in a business environment. With Seesmic Desktop 2, it’s only fitting to integrate with the world’s largest professional network through our new LinkedIn plugin.