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Steven Stegman Jan 23, 2008
We’ve just released a new feature: “Viewers of this profile also viewed.” Now, whenever you view someone’s profile, you’ll see other related profiles, which you can click on and browse through.
Here's an example of what you will see if you view the profile of TechCrunch blogger, Michael Arrington. You'll see that people who viewed his profile also tended to view the profiles of Edgio CEO's, Keith Teare, fellow tech bloggers: Jason Calacanis, Om Malik, Dave McClure, and LGiLAB's GM, Ouriel Ohayon.
At LinkedIn, we believe in collective intelligence, and the team that brought you this feature (as well as ‘People you may know’ and ‘Who’s viewed my profile’) is busy working on some even cooler stuff. Stay tuned.
NOTE: You'll need to be logged into LinkedIn to see this feature. Click the "View Full Profile" button if you're looking at the person's public profile.
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Kay Luo Jan 17, 2008
The last time I blogged about three ways to network right, I had great responses from the readers so here's my New Year's resolution post. Many of you have probably either created, broken or still working on a final list of resolutions for this year. Here are five resolutions that professionals can make and keep this year, to jump start their career.
1. Build your online brand
Your online image can affect the way other professionals see you, just as much as your offline image. Create your own online professional brand by developing a LinkedIn profile. Make sure to keep information on your professional experience and other relevant information up-to-date. You may be surprised to learn how many recruiting executives use online networks to locate potential candidates. Also, if you're keen on building an impressive professional brand, make sure personal information intended for close friends stays private on the web. You don't want coworkers and potential employers looking at personal photos of your vacations and party shots. If you're curious about who is checking out your online brand, you can use LinkedIn's "Who's Viewed My Profile" feature to find out.
Check out the "Who's Viewed My Profile" feature on LinkedIn
2. Be at the forefront of people's minds
In order to get leads and recommendations through your network, it's important to keep in touch with former colleagues as well as your present circle. LinkedIn allows professionals to remain at the forefront of people's minds by easily and efficiently keeping in touch. Using LinkedIn, it's easy to see who's been promoted, switched jobs, moved, won an award, and more. LinkedIn's InMail messaging system is a perfect way to reach out and keep your connections fresh, without cutting into your personal time.
Have you checked out the leaner LinkedIn Inbox?
3. Make smarter decisions
Being a great leader is not always about becoming an expert at everything -- it's really about knowing where to find knowledge and expertise when you need it. The LinkedIn Answers feature allows professionals to quickly and easily solicit input and gain perspective from their own connections or from the broader LinkedIn community. Learn how others approach new markets, revamp processes, and resolve problems. Draw on the collective knowledge of your trusted connections -- and their connections -- and benefit from the experience of others.
Check out LinkedIn Answers in our new redesigned homepage
4. Prioritize how you spend your time
Everyone understands the importance of time management in today's accelerated workplace environment. Successful people are often sought after with requests from unknown people for meetings, events, speaking engagements, and more. The LinkedIn network can be used to quickly and efficiently check out these contacts and requests before committing. A quick search reveals anyone you might know in common, gives you a capsule impression, and helps you allocate your valuable time wisely. And if you need to prepare for a meeting, the Advanced Search feature can also save time by allowing you to find specialists on almost every topic, industry, or company you want to research.
Check out LinkedIn's powerful Advanced Search tool
5. Stay on top of what's going on in your world
If you want to be truly great at what you do, it's essential to stay on top of industry news at all times. LinkedIn News makes it easy for every professional to read the articles they need to read, by leveraging the power of their business connections. It starts by delivering news about key daily topics: a user's company, industry, and competitors, drawn from more than 10,000 publishers and blogs. Then, LinkedIn News uses the wisdom of each user's "crowd" of colleagues to determine the handful of articles that are the most important to their business -- the articles they need to read that day. LinkedIn News is currently available in beta to a select group of users, and will be expanded to all LinkedIn members in the New Year.
Check out the newest addition to our feature set - LinkedIn News
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Also, check out Surya's 8 ways to make LinkedIn work for you in 2008 here. Feel free to leave a comment, on what your career resolutions are for this year.
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Since we started the blog on April 24th of last year, we've had many LinkedIn events that we've covered on the blog. Here's a quick recap of a few of those milestones you may have either attended or heard about last year.
1. Moving into our new digs - again!
Since we moved into our Mountain View office almost half a year ago, we realized one floor wouldn't suffice for our engineers, product and design folk; so we have recently expanded into the first floor of the building we currently occupy. Some of you
may have read a blog post by Adam Nash describing the move.
Source: LinkedIn photo feed
Also, check out a video of Adam Nash describing the move or his earlier blog post on the same
2. Lunch 2.0 at LinkedIn
This was the event that started it all. We decided to throw open the doors of our new digs as soon as we moved from our Palo Alto office to our current office space in Mountain View, by hosting Silicon Valley's favorite lunch past time - Lunch 2.0. It was the re-launch of Lunch 2.0 for the summer series 2007. And, boy what a turnout we had!
Source: LinkedIn photo feed
Check out San Francisco Chronicle's coverage of the event, and here's our very own summary of the event.
3. LinkedIn Q&A Live!
One of the first LinkedIn Q&A events we planned was around the concept of a book preview we hosted featuring questions from LinkedIn users. The evening saw the pairing of the ever-funny Dan Lyons a.k.a Fake
Steve Jobs a.k.a FSJ (Sr. editor at Forbes, author of "Option$") with the ever-entertaining Guy
Kawasaki (Former Apple evangelist and founder of Truemors).
Source: Terry Chay
It made for a truly exceptional evening with insight into the genesis of the Fake Steve Jobs blog, how Brad Stone (New York Times) outed the FSJ blog, FSJ playing the real Steve Jobs, the phenomenon of Fake CEO blogs, and tech industry insider jokes galore.
And, don't get me started on the Webbys coverage, our user-generated acceptance speech, In the Black party, LinkedIn Cube Chic... I could go on...
Source: LinkedIn photo feed
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Also, thanks to Terry Chay (co-founder at Lunch 2.0) and LinkedIn's Jerry Luk for some of their pictures republished above.
Stay tuned to the LinkedIn blog for upcoming events this year. Subscribe to our blog if you haven't yet.
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Steve Ganz Jan 10, 2008
Jim Meyer
Data portability is on a lot of people's minds right now. You don't need to be an A-list blogger trying to export your massive friend list to know that your address book is your own, nor to recognize that toting around your network can be cumbersome. You shouldn't have to reinvent yourself — and rediscover your colleagues — over and over again.
At LinkedIn, we've always believed that users should own and control their data. And we've walked the walk by offering one-click export of your connections to .csv and .vcf since 2004; using microformats since 2006 to mark up your contacts with XFN + hCard and service provider recommendations with hReview; and in early 2007 we released the first major hResume implementation. It's not just open formats either. Last year we started building APIs and a developer platform which will soon include support for OpenSocial applications.
LinkedIn is committed to helping professionals be more productive in their everyday work life. These technologies are among the powerful tools that enable us to do this. So it makes sense that we would support efforts like DataPortability.org and Social Network Portability. We’re happy to share what we’ve learned along the way with the community and look forward to learning from the experience of others.
At the same time, we firmly believe in users' rights to privacy, not only when it comes to who has access to their data but also by which means and for what purpose. Accepting a connection from another does not and should not grant them carte blanche to collect and keep your information for their own purposes — and we know that. And as we join this new conversation, we promise to continue to keep privacy firmly in focus.
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Mario Sundar Jan 04, 2008
This past year has seen the consolidation of the LinkedIn Blog as the source for all information about LinkedIn Features, Events, and LinkedIn News in general.
Here's a quick recap of the Top 5 most widely read posts on our blog this past year.
#5: The LinkedIn API Opportunity:
The first blog post written by Lucian Beebe attracted a lot of attention due to enhanced interest swirling around the launch of social networking platforms.
We recognize that there are literally hundreds of places and
ways to use your LinkedIn network in your professional life. APIs will allow you to literally “take your professional network with you” as you go through your work day, using your network on the sites you visit to get things done.
#4: Guess who's viewed your profile:
Steven Stegman describes a brand new features which happened to be one of the frequently requested feature. It was also one of the early blog posts that received traction on blog discussion sites like TechMeme.
This was an interesting product for us to design: as the profile owner,
we understand you'd like to see exactly who's viewed your profile, but
as a profile viewer, you want your privacy protected. We recently
figured out an elegant solution that works for everyone: instead of
showing you exactly who's viewed your profile, we'll show you some
interesting information about the users' industry or company background
without revealing their identity.
#3: LinkedIn & Open Social:
A post written by Adam Nash, following his presentation at Google.
LinkedIn is proud to be participating in this week's launch of Open Social, a new set of open APIs to allow developers to easily build and deploy social applications across the web. Open Social is only part of the larger story for LinkedIn about
leveraging the power of your professional network, both on and off the
LinkedIn site.
#2: LinkedIn's Intelligent Application Platform (with video):
A follow-up to Lucian's earlier post on the API Opportunity. This post had Lucian elaborating on the themes he'd introduced in his earlier post, a few months ago.
Several months ago, we announced
we are working on APIs and a platform strategy for software developers
to integrate with LinkedIn and display their application within
LinkedIn. With the OpenSocial announcements,
you can now see a lot more about how you can write applications that
run inside LinkedIn. So, if you are a developer, what opportunities do
you now have?
#1: LinkedIn News, Redesigned home page and more (with video):
The most popular blog post covered the December announcements we made surrounding the redesigned homepage.
The past few weeks have seen the release of a slew of features that have helped augment your experience of LinkedIn; features ranging from refined network updates to the ability to add a photo to your profile. Today, we're glad to announce the next step in that evolution - a completely redesigned homepage as well as further details on LinkedIn's Intelligent Application Platform. In this post we hope to give you a quick snapshot of what's new on LinkedIn today.
Stay tuned to the LinkedIn Blog for the latest and greatest on LinkedIn throughout the year. Subscribe to our blog if you haven't already.
Happy New Year 2008!
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