Linkedin Blog

As the hub of professional conversation on the web, LinkedIn wants to make sure you have an efficient Inbox that improves your productivity. It’s a place where you can quickly and easily manage messages from your connections and invitation requests from colleagues and classmates.

Recently, we started rolling out our new Inbox to some of our members and soon all of you will be seeing it (if you haven’t already). Check out a 1 minute video to see some of these enhancements.

Some of you may have noticed the change to how and when your inbox shows up on your homepage: it will only appear when you have unread messages – but your inbox and your read messages are always available from the left navigation bar on the homepage. So, when your Inbox is empty and doesn’t display on your LinkedIn homepage, click through to your Inbox to check out your read messages.

Clicking through to the main page of your Inbox also reveals a new tabbed structure: all messages are easily accessible from the Received, Sent and Archived tabs. At a glance you can now see all your messages and easily drill down by applying a filter, for example invitations.

Here at LinkedIn, we are always looking for ways to make the world’s professionals more effective through the use of their network. Today, I’m happy to announce the first of several upcoming product features being built through a partnership with IBM’s Lotus, which extends the availability of LinkedIn functionality to Lotus Notes.

Here are three key LinkedIn features that 140 million Lotus Notes users can look forward to:

Quick Update: Thanks for all the feedback you’ve sent us on the new LinkedIn Communication features. Some of you may have noticed that while replying to InMails/Introductions, hitting the “Send” button would reload the page without sending the message. That has been remedied and you should be able to send messages without any hitches right now. Stay tuned to the blog for further feature enhancements coming shortly. 

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So, the last time I was on the blog it was to introduce some simple feature enhancements to the LinkedIn Inbox in a post called “Getting Things Done with your Inbox“. Today, I’m back to announce a slew of further enhancements that we believe you’ll find immensely valuable. Our product, design and engineering teams would love to hear your feedback on the same. So feel free to leave a comment or two.