We have over 50,000 products and services represented on LinkedIn Company Pages today and that number is growing at a pretty rapid clip.
With millions of LinkedIn members following over a million companies on LinkedIn, we are glad to introduce a range of new capabilities for companies to glean insights, ways to both manage their Company Page more effectively and to make it easier for customers to recommend them.
Whether or not we realize it, we all live and work in a networked world. Reputations matter. Relationships matter. Information is bombarding us from a rapidly swelling variety of sources, with increasing frequency and variability in terms of quality. Interestingly, people are managing this incredible increase in complexity with habits and business practices that date back decades, if not centuries.
They consider the source. They consider the context.
Following the announcement of LinkedIn News we regularly been shipping improvements and built on top of the existing functionality. We are continuously adding companies that are able to see news as well as news queries that should be relevant for those companies. Additionally we are constantly adding new sources for which we pull, we have added news sharing, company discussions around news articles, and last week Armin Ahumada improved how you can recommend an article and Eishay Smith improved how we add syndicated feeds (such as RSS and ATOM) to our fetcher.
1. Recommendation Improvements
I’ve been a LinkedIn user since June 2003, but even as an active user I keep finding new ways to get things done on the site. Since we continue to roll out new features and functionality on a weekly basis, I guess it’s not that surprising. Still, it’s always fun when I find a new way to use LinkedIn.
Since everyone is getting ready for a great 2008, I thought this might be a good time to share one new trick I learned a few weeks ago: How to do mutual introductions on LinkedIn.
