Archive for May, 2007

Who’s Viewed My Profile? Who Cares?

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

LinkedIn recently added a new feature - Who’s Viewed My Profile. I have to say that this is a feature I’m not really all that crazy about, for a couple of reasons.
For starters, I’m not sure I really want everyone whose profile I view to know it. The fundamental paradigm of the internet is basically [...]

LinkedIn Lawyers

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

LexBlog and the Vancouver Law Librarian Blog are reporting that a growing number of attorneys are using LinkedIn to enhance their professional connectivity. Says law librarian Steve Mathews:
I mentioned LinkedIn during an in-house presentation at my law firm a few weeks back, and knew at that point about 15% of our Lawyers were on it. [...]

Why Can’t I Just Say No Any More?

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Recently, LinkedIn made some changes in the way invitations work, adding some automated consequences for sending invitations to people you don’t know (and who don’t want invitations from people they don’t know). In so doing, they changed the options as to how you can reply to an invitation you receive. You can now:

Accept
Say you don’t [...]

LinkedIn Wins Webby

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

LinkedIn recently took top honors in two categories in the 11th annual Webby Awards, honoring the best sites on the web. LinkedIn won in the Services and Social Networking categories.
LinkedIn is also up for a Next Web Award in the Social category - go vote!
Also, just for fun (submissions are closed), you might enjoy taking [...]

LinkedIn for Good

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

LinkedIn announced today the launch of a new initiative “to leverage the network to promote positive social change.” LinkedIn for Good consists of basically two things:

Partner non-profit organizations have pages on LinkedIn with information about the organization and a link to immediately make a donation or find others who support the cause.
Members can add badges [...]