LinkedIn Becomes a Social Media Tool
Categories: LinkedIn
Written By: SOCOM Sales
I knew this day was coming. Linkedin is a resource professionals have been using for several years to keep in contact with old coworkers as well as build their networks for business use. LinkedIn has been rolling out some new features over the past year hinting that major changes were in the works. It looks like the next phase of LinkedIn features was released last night in the form of LinkedIn Applications.
No longer will LinkedIn be seen as a boring text based log of who you have in your network and what career changes they have made. They now have opened the interface to allow for robust interaction with your network by adding applications like WordPress blogs, Box.Net, TripIt and others.
I was most interested in the WordPress application but it seems that you need to have your blog hosted on WordPress. For those of us that have self hosted WP blogs, we are out of luck. It looks like LinkedIn didn’t think this one all the way through since many professionals have self hosted blogs and now we are kept out of using this functionality.
TripIt
With today’s myriad of travel sites, even the most experienced traveler has their hands full managing all the details of a typical trip. Booking airline tickets, hotels, rental cars and restaurants leaves you with lots of separate pieces of paper. Throw in maps, directions, things to do, and weather and the chaos multiplies.So we can now organize our travel and also keep up to date with people in your LinkedIn network to see if you are in the same area as them while you travel.
Who is looking at me?
Besides the new applications that I am having fun paying around with, I enjoy knowing more about how my profile is being accessed. In the home view there is now a section that gives me information about the people that I have come to my Linked profile.
I would like to see self hosted WordPress blogs added to their tools. But until that day, I am excited to get to using all of the other applications made availible.
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October 29th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Wow. time for me to update my LinkedIn profile!
December 8th, 2008 at 2:19 am
Obviously to myself as a recruiter linkedin has some very definite sales uses, including a powerful search function to help find teh right people. However I think more sales people should be using it.
People are using linkedin more and more to find resources. Through the questions area, through their ’status’ on it, through their contacts etc. Added to that the ability to use the search function to find people in certain jobs, or with certain interests and you have a very powerful sales tool that more sales people would do well to be tapping into.
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