The mobile team is excited to announce that one of our partner developers, Nokia, has built a new LinkedIn application using the LinkedIn Platform. This is a great example of how developers can leverage the LinkedIn ecosystem, and a great opportunity for us to bring LinkedIn to our users across various mobile phones globally.
This new LinkedIn app brings a deep LinkedIn experience to the Nokia N8, Nokia E7, and Nokia C7 series of smartphones.
LinkedIn for Nokia includes a full, rich feature set designed to bring the most useful features of LinkedIn to your Nokia smartphone. The application features six modules, each with a user experience designed from the ground up for Nokia devices:
Updates. View and share crucial business intelligence and updates with your network. Perfect for those spare moments between meetings.
Search. Search across 100 million global professionals, and get the answer back in seconds. Nokia has implemented a unified search across both your direct connections and the entire LinkedIn network.
Connections. LinkedIn is your address book in the cloud. Get quick access to any of your connections to get their up-to-date profile information, and the ability to send them a message immediately.
Invitations. Why wait to get back to your desk? Accept outstanding invitations immediately and invite people to connect wherever you are.
Inbox. Stay up-to-date with your LinkedIn messages and communicate with professionals within your network.
Reconnect. You can’t leverage your network if you don’t build it. This module brings suggestions for new connections to you anytime. Now you can build your network from anywhere, in seconds.
LinkedIn Everywhere
We’re focused on bringing the best LinkedIn experience to our members wherever they work and the addition of the LinkedIn application for Nokia continues to bring LinkedIn to our users across multiple mobile devices. Check it out for yourself here:
This belongs to a series of posts on how websites like Fortune are integrating LinkedIn functionality. Here’s Daniel Roth, Editor, FortuneDigital, on the recent integration of LinkedIn’s APIs into the Fortune 500 web app. – Ed.
Yesterday, the Fortune 500+ Web app went live. The program takes our annual Fortune 500 list — the foremost method for ranking business — and turns it into a vital tool for doing business. Users can target 1,000 of the biggest companies in the U.S., find the right ones to meet with, track breaking news and Twitter traffic, and build, map and share lists of prospects.
All of those features we knew we wanted when we started building this app in the fall of 2010. But the one offering we knew we had to have was some way to let users discover who they knew at each company.
And that’s where LinkedIn — and the LinkedIn APIs — proved so essential. Working with LinkedIn’s Adam Nash, Adam Trachtenberg, Jeremy Johnstone, and Rohan Verma, the Time Inc. developers were able create an HTML5 Web app that can scour a 1,000-company list and get instant snapshots of employee counts. Before users even pick companies they want to connect with, they can scan to find which companies they have the best shot at getting in the door with. Then users can generate custom screens of contacts, filtering by 1st- and 2nd-degree connections.
So imagine a busy salesperson is traveling through Los Angeles and wants to meet with every company in his industry that might just buy his widgets. Using our app and LinkedIn’s network, he can find the best companies, determine who he knows there and, using Fortune’s corporate reporting and Google News, become an instant expert.
Even better, this is just the beginning. Our developers are busy investigating all of the other APIs at LinkedIn that will allow us to keep making this app more functional and more essential. Come check out the Fortune 500+ Web app at fortune.com/500plus and let us know what you’d like to see in the next version or how, working with LinkedIn, we can add new capabilities.
A little over a year ago, we launched our developer program to enable a world where LinkedIn members can access their business relationships anywhere and anytime they need them.
We’re excited to announce that one of our partner developers, Snaptu, has built a new LinkedIn application for feature phones using our development platform. This is a great example of how mobile developers can leverage the LinkedIn ecosystem and extend the LinkedIn experience to millions of our users.
Built on the Snaptu mobile app platform, this new LinkedIn app brings a smartphone-like user experience to over 2,500 different types of feature phone devices, about 80% of the devices sold worldwide.
Snaptu has focused on bringing the most commonly used LinkedIn features in their first release. With the new app, any LinkedIn user can:
View your update stream to glean insights from what your network is doing
Gather ‘meeting intelligence’ about the customers and partners you’re meeting with on a daily basis through search
Grow your network by inviting people to join your network (and by accepting their invitations)
Access your connections to see how their networks have grown, who you have in common, and what’s changed on their profile
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What’s Next?
The team at Snaptu has done a great job building the core LinkedIn experience on their platform. They are enabling mobile LinkedIn access for millions of our users in India, Brazil, and around the world, and we’re excited to be working with such partners on new ideas for the future.
The LinkedIn app on Snaptu is available for immediate download. Get it now.
Ed. note. This belongs to a series of posts on how external websites and services are integrating LinkedIn functionality. Here’s Clara Shih, bestselling author on social media and CEO of Hearsay Social, a social media marketing and compliance solution for financial services.
This year, social media adoption by enterprise organizations is set to again grow exponentially. This is particularly important in the financial services segment, which is very much a relationship business.
Yet up until now, there have been barriers to using social media effectively and safely. Our research shows 33% of financial professionals have a LinkedIn account, but only 11% say they use it for business with the primary concern being around compliance requirements. We heard these frustrations and built Hearsay Social from the ground up to provide a social media marketing and compliance solution for financial services.
Our integration with LinkedIn’s private inbox API means we can provide complete archiving, filtering, and flagging for all public and private client conversations of financial services professionals, allowing effective business conversations to take place on LinkedIn and other social networking sites while ensuring 100% compliance. It doesn’t matter if your employees or advisors access LinkedIn from work, home, or a mobile device—Hearsay Social makes these conversations and connections safe, secure, and compliant. Given below is a quick video on how it works:
But we’ve found compliance alone is not enough. Employees, agents, and advisors need content, real-time feedback, and training to be successful on social media over the long term:
Content management: Give your employees and advisors timely, compliance-approved campaign and content suggestions through Hearsay Social to select and share with their local social network connections. They can pick and choose what works with their audience, and you don’t have to worry about someone accidentally saying the wrong thing.
Analytics: Learn what works and what doesn’t with Hearsay Social’s in-depth analytics. You can even drill down by region, sub-region, or individual employee to identify trends over time and in response to specific types of content.
Training. Hearsay Social specializes in addressing the unique challenges of deploying technology to a large number of employees and agents who are geographically distributed and have widely varying levels of social media familiarity. We provide complete training and support for both the corporate and local levels.
Hearsay is excited to team up with LinkedIn so that financial institutions can finally embrace social networking. I look forward to helping you and your employees become wildly successful on social media.
GitHub is a fantastic way for developers to collaborate with one other on software projects. It hosts code for many prominent open-source projects, including LinkedIn’s own Voldemort and Kafka. With over 600,000 developers hosting over 1.8 million projects, the work hosted on GitHub is essential to developers and professionals around the world.
Software developers know that the code they’ve written is one of the most important parts of their professional identity. It shows their involvement, interest, and dedication to their work. Now developers can showcase their projects on LinkedIn – the world’s largest professional community.
After you’ve installed the application and added your GitHub account on LinkedIn, check your Profile – your GitHub projects should appear automatically. Your network will now be automatically updated whenever you create, follow, or update a GitHub project.
Discover Projects in your Network
With this new application, you can now leverage the power of your professional network to discover new and interesting projects. Discover which of your connections are on GitHub, and follow their projects right from LinkedIn.
Even if you’re not a software developer, the new GitHub application will help you discover which of your connections are actively following and working on new software projects.
Ed. note. This belongs to a series of posts on how numerous websites and services are integrating LinkedIn functionality. Here’s Ryan Tomaselli, Sr. Software Engineer from Flock – the social browser who recently integrated with LinkedIn, bringing in your professional network, groups and more to your browser.
Whether it’s keeping in touch with our colleagues, seeking or posting new opportunities, or forging new relationships, LinkedIn improves the way we stay connected, facilitates professional growth, and allows us to increase our online social capital. At Flock, we’re a big believer in the ability of online social to change lives.
For five years, we’ve helped our users get the most out of their social networks and we’re now 9.5 million users strong. For many of us, online social has been life changing, but the sheer volume of this ever-growing stream of information makes it hard to keep up. Between staying on top of our valuable LinkedIn activity, maintaining our other social network relationships, and taking in information such as RSS feeds, it’s a challenge to make sure we get the most value from our social universe. At Flock we’ve focused on this challenge and we’re here to help.
Flock provides an effortless way to get the most out of your LinkedIn experience. With Flock and LinkedIn you can:
○ See all of your social content in one place by simply glancing at the Flock Sidebar, including LinkedIn status updates, tweets, Facebook status updates, RSS feeds, and YouTube and Flickr content.
You’ll see all of your LinkedIn connections and other social network friends’ changing status in real-time, so you’ll never be out of touch with what’s happening in your LinkedIn and broader social network.
○ You’ll be able to instantly share content that you come across on the Internet with your LinkedIn network.
○ You can group your colleagues and friends in multiple ways while still having their social media updates visible in Flock’s Sidebar. You can also combine or group your social network contacts according to work, professional interests and clubs, social interests, alumni, or any way you choose.
○ Use Flock’s Social Search feature to see what other members in your network are saying about a topic. When you enter a question or search query in the address bar, Flock shows you recent pages, favorite sites and feeds, and Google search results, as well as any matches from your LinkedIn connections along with status updates, tweets, and photo/video uploads.
So click here, www.flock.com and in just a few minutes you’ll have not only enhanced the way you use LinkedIn, but you’ll also have what you need to take control of your entire online social experience.
Ed. note: This belongs to a series of posts on how numerous websites and services are integrating LinkedIn functionality. This is a post from Amit Kulkarni, co-founder and CEO at Manymoon – a project collaboration application.
Have you ever connected with freelancers or consultants on LinkedIn and immediately had to start working with them?
You can now do that for free with our Projects and Teamspaces application for LinkedIn. You can eliminate hundreds of emails per month by using this integration. Instead of digging around for the action items from the last meeting or which version of the document to review, just go to your LinkedIn Projects and Teamspaces to view all your work activity neatly organized.
Projects and Teamspaces was built from the ground-up for LinkedIn and your professional requirements. It provides:
Utility – we know your time is valuable. The app actually helps get work done with your LinkedIn connections: complete tasks, track projects and review documents
Security – you need full control of what you share and with whom. The application lets you see exactly what is being shared with which team members.
Here are some ways that people are using Projects and Teamspaces:
Sales – Projects and Teamspaces is a great way to track each opportunity in conjunction with the customer. It’s a great way to keep them engaged during the sales process and securely share quotes, meeting notes and discussions.
Track Candidates – as a recruiter, it’s difficult to use email to keep track of all the applicants for job openings. Instead, you can create one project for each job opening, invite the hiring manager and create a task for each candidate. Attach the appropriate resume and cover letter to each task.
Consulting – engage with clients and track proposals, all within LinkedIn. Projects and Teamspaces provides 25 MB of online storage for free and you can upgrade for more.
Track Jobs – as a job seeker you don’t want to miss that important follow-up with companies you’re eager to join. Just create a task for when to follow up with each company you’re interviewing with.
Google Apps Sharing – want to share a Google Doc with one of your LinkedIn connection? Just do within Projects and Teamspaces and the sharing permissions will automatically be handled for you.
Here’s a video of how the Projects and Teamspaces application works:
Ed. note: This belongs to a series of posts on how numerous websites and services are integrating LinkedIn functionality. Thanks to Timothy Moore, VP and Publisher at FT Press, for sharing his thoughts on FT Press’ new app that lets LinkedIn users showcase select business content on LinkedIn.
Our Linkedin application, eBookshelf by FT Press helps busy professionals find trustworthy information and answers quickly to help them do their job better and advance their career. We’ve developed a series of over 500 shorts – essential reading for business success that covers a wide variety of networking topics.
For example:
Network your way to a better job
Advance your career
Discover an answer to a problem you have right now
Develop a better understanding on how to manage people
Understand the economy or investment opportunities better
Given below is a sampling of the variety and utility of the e-content inside the LinkedIn app once you install it:
Dealing with a Lay Off (What to Expect When You are No Longer Expected), Martha Finney
Establishing your Major Social Media Objectives and Key Strategies, Jamie Turner and Dr Reshma Shah
Writing a Business Report That Gets Read, Not Filed, Natalie Canavor and Claire Meirowitt
Don’t Make Them Think! (Creating the Best Flow for the Elements of any Great Presentation), Jerry Weissman
What I Learned from Peter Drucker, Jim Champy
Listen Up (Changing a Troubled Ship’s Course), Captain Michael Abrashoff
The Truth about Making Better Decisions, Robert Gunther
The biggest advantage of showcasing this e-content on your LinkedIn app is that you can share and recommend content that you find useful and insightful with your network of trusted contacts on Linkedin, allowing you to take a thought leadership role within your network.
We will add new content every week, curating a library of useful reading to help you succeed in business and in life. You can start off with 3 Free Credits for any content on the app and can share any article with your network.
We welcome your feedback as we continue to improve eBookshelf by FTPress.
Ed. note: This belongs to a series of posts on how numerous websites and services are integrating LinkedIn functionality. This post is from Carlton Dyce, VP of Peer Review Ratings and Client Review Services at LexisNexis on their recently launched lawyer ratings application on LinkedIn.
As one of the first sites to use LinkedIn’s API, we knew early on the importance of legal professionals being able to find connections to gain new referrals from both broad networking sites like LinkedIn as well as from our own professional networking community – martindale.com® Connected.
I often hear that people need additional, credible, third-party information (including ratings) to supplement the self-reported credentials supplied in online lawyer profiles. One of the most comprehensive and trusted of those ratings programs is our Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings™ program. Along with our recently launched Client Review Ratings, both programs give the quantitative and qualitative data that helps to provide a true “apples-to-apples” comparison opportunity to augment valuable Recommendations received on LinkedIn.
We are excited to have developed and launched a new application integrated in LinkedIn: Lawyer Ratings by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, for legal professional members to leverage their ratings on their LinkedIn profiles:
1. Lawyers who display their ratings on www.martindale.com® and www.Lawyers.comsm can now use this ratings application to extend the visibility of hard-earned, third-party recognition from peers and clients to an online audience of millions of fellow members within LinkedIn.
2. The Lawyer Ratings application will also allow their clients another convenient channel to complete a Martindale Hubbell Client Review directly on LinkedIn.
This is our first application for LinkedIn, and our vision is to see it grow, extending its value with new dynamic content in the future and allowing legal professionals to connect in a whole new way via LinkedIn. Please let us know what you think!
How to download the LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Ratings application
Just go to the Application Directory under “More” and click on the link. Each lawyer will go through a simple verification process, and within minutes can showcase their ratings on their LinkedIn profile.
Ed. note: This belongs to a series of posts on how numerous websites and services are integrating LinkedIn functionality. This post is from Mary McCabe, VP of Global Product and Content Management at OneSource – a sales optimization tool with information on millions of companies and executives world wide.
When we created iSell, our goal was to transform sales by delivering all of the information a salesperson needs in one clean and easy-to-use application. Who is the hottest prospect? When should I call them? What is happening with them? How do I reach them? With iSell, we have created a tool that answers all of these questions.
While we have received great feedback on iSell, we are always seeking to make it better. The folks at LinkedIn believe that every business application would be fundamentally better if it was built over a platform of your professional reputation and relationships. We couldn’t agree more. iSell is now the most complete integration of a trigger-based sales application with the LinkedIn API to allow its users to perform optimized prospecting and relationship networking in one step.
Here’s how it works:
Detailed business information from OneSource’s LiveContent Platform – which blends together content from more than 50 data suppliers and thousands of information sources – is supplemented with personalized, timely triggers based upon real-time selling opportunities.
OneSource connects with LinkedIn’s API to tap into LinkedIn’s membership of over 80 million users, identifying the iSell user’s common connection to a prospect via their own LinkedIn account.
There’s no need to click through multiple pages or open widgets, it’s all right there in iSell. By opening up the LinkedIn API, LinkedIn has allowed iSell to deliver a seamless integration of all the essential phases of sales prospecting into one application.
The integration of iSell and LinkedIn happens throughout the application. Whether you are viewing executive or company profile pages, you are always alerted to you closest connection in your LinkedIn network.
Finally, because one of the core principles of iSell is delivering timely, trigger-based information; iSell includes a contact’s LinkedIn status updates as part of your trigger feed.
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