Comments on: Who’s Viewed My Profile? Who Cares?

By: don don

don don — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:05:38 +0000

i all ready change the setting but still cant viewed and you said there is technical problem so when it will solve and please help me.

By: Scott Allen

Scott Allen — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:35:35 +0000

Interesting point. For me, there are a couple of key differences:

1) MyBlogLog only shows MyBlogLog members — people who have opted in to be visible. So the default, for a first-time visitor who hasn’t opted in to MBL is that they’re completely anonymous. On LinkedIn, as I explained in my post, the “semi-anonymous” default state isn’t anonymous for a lot of people, so many people are being “opted in” to that without even their knowledge.

2) Someone appearing in my MyBlogLog widget has more meaning (to me) than someone viewing my LinkedIn profile. I know that a) they almost certainly have a blog, and b) they have some degree of interest in learning more about LinkedIn. Of course, I don’t sit here and go through all my MBL visitors every day — who has time???

But on LinkedIn, all that viewing my profile means is that I matched on some keyword in a search (I don’t know what keyword), or my name showed up in the “people you might know” list, or that they liked (or maybe hated) an answer I gave on LinkedIn Answers. I have NO context, and without the context, the fact that they viewed my profile is meaningless — not actionable.

I keep saying it, but it’s such an important concept to me: Context creates meaning.

No context means it’s just data, not knowledge, which would be actionable.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:00:15 +0000

Funny, you don’t seem to like this feature, yet your mybloglog widget shows the visitors pictures front an center on your own LinkedIntelligence blog.

By: Charlie on the PA Turnpike

Charlie on the PA Turnpike — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:28:34 +0000

Have to agree with you; I don’t want people to know I’ve looked into their profile. Once a week, at best, I’ll browse who looked at mine, but it’s almost always generic titles.

I’m big on anonymity.

By: William

William — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:16:38 +0000

This feature has come from dating sites. You just need to see public profile while you is logged out in case of you don’t want to be captured.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:29:21 +0000

Even from the other side it can take on a different perspective. I did look to see who had looked at my profile. People from another country had looked at mine. I found it really puzzling considering their industry was completely different than mine and from another country. I’m supposing that they were browsing around but, I don’t think that I really need to know this or much less want to.