Announcing the Company Insider Widget
I'm happy to announce the availability of LinkedIn's Company Insider widget, the first in a family of widgets coming your way this year.
This is a secure and easy way to provide contextual information about companies on your blog or news site to bring your readers closer to the companies you write about, on your job board to connect your users with people they may know at a company, or in any other way you see fit.
Simply copy and paste the Javascript, mark up your content by passing a company name to the widget, and your users now have pertinent access to their LinkedIn professional network.
It's free to use and available now. Join the likes of BusinessWeek and CIO Magazine — add the Company Insider widget to your site today! Everything you need to get started can be found here.
Alex Miller May 17, 2008
I've read this twice and I still don't understand what this is or why you would want to use it.
Taylor Singletary May 19, 2008
Alex,
This is for site operators who want to connect their readership with individuals in companies, leveraging their own LinkedIn network.
If I'm viewing an article about IBM on CIO, and it triggers in me a desire to interact directly with someone at the company because I want a job there, or because I want to initiate a business deal there, or if I'm just curious who I might know at the company -- this widget tells me who I know and/or who I might want to know at the company to reach those aims.
The value proposition here that excited me most is in providing context to your users, making the world a smaller a place.
Taylor
Paul May 20, 2008
Alex,
Great widget. We have a crude version working on our beta site and this will jazz it up for sure. We operate a job board for the Entertainment Industry.
Please help us connect with your fellow developers regarding learning more about what API's we can include in our next site version which can take our group [SBJ on LinkedIn] and make it more interactive.
We've dropped numerous emails to folks and there has been no response. Anything you can do to help get a conversation going would be greatly appreciated.
Check us out at www.showbizjobs.com and our LinkedIn group at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/44880/764E087DF1F0
Paul Buss
Paul May 20, 2008
Sorry, that last email should have been addressed to Taylor.
Paul
Henry Work May 20, 2008
Hey Taylor. Pretty cool widget. We've just implemented across CrunchBase:
see
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/linkedin
or
http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/sequoia-capital
I look forward to the future widgets!
Chris May 23, 2008
Im kind of "site operator" and Im sure wont put it to my site. No sense at all, sorry
Riley May 23, 2008
Have u tested this in safari...the backgroud is missing
Taylor Singletary May 23, 2008
Riley,
We are aware of some minor issues with some versions of Safari and are working to resolve them soon.
Thanks,
Taylor
Clyde Smith May 26, 2008
Thanks. I'm looking forward to adding this.
Gene Babon Jun 1, 2008
Hi Taylor,
Thanks for the widget. Check and see how I've implemented it for my Boston-based Web technology blog:
http://beantownweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/fastest-growing-companies-2008.html
Looking forward to seeing more from your family of widgets!
Gene
Bill Murphy Jun 3, 2008
Taylor,
Within a week of your release, we integrated Company Insider Widget into our Company Summary and Executives Report. This new feature has been rolled out to our Global subscriber base of hundreds of thousands of Sales, Marketing, Consulting and Financial Services professionals.
www.onesource.com
How it works for OneSource users:
Our clients look for the Linkedin button in the Key Executives section of our Company Summary or Executive Report. By clicking the button they will see their personal connection at this company. Then by clicking "See all..." open a pop up window with the full list of potential connections.
This widget allows our clients to leverage the rich data within our database and brings it to a more persoanl level-showing them the potential relationship building paths with executives in OneSource and Linkedin.
Great widget
Bill
Brian Hamlett Jul 9, 2008
We have been testing this new widget and the "Share on LinkedIn" widget on our new community site for business professionals, business owners, and entrepreneurs. One thing we have noticed that may be important to note. When tested on our site AND on others (such as Crunchbase) and the user is NOT logged in, often times it shows a result of zero users on LinkedIn. However, when we log into LinkedIn, then go to our site (or crunchbase) and click the same link to view results, it then shows the names of people who work for the company. So, even though the demo shows that you can see how many individuals work for that company who are on LinkedIn, it does not appear to work that way on these sites. This is a concern of ours as the users who come to our site may not realize that they need to login (or signup) to LinkedIn to view the correct results. Any ideas what is causing this?
Taylor Singletary Jul 10, 2008
@Brian - The data used in the version presented to members not currently logged in is taken from a cache that we update periodically.