At one point last week as I was scrambling to put together the list of recipients for Dunkirk Systems’ holiday cards, I needed to go to LinkedIn to look up a couple of contacts. When I arrived at the social networking site I saw a familiar face, a wizard image LinkedIn puts up when it takes the service down for maintenance. When I went back after the maintenance window, I was pleasantly surprised to see more familiar faces.

If you have a LinkedIn account and you visit the home page, you can see updates to people in your network. As I have previously stated, this is a highly valuable feature of LinkedIn as you can find out changes for contacts, including if they have a new job. Now these changes include if a person has added a photo to their profile. The accompanying image is a partial screen grab from my own LinkedIn home page, showing networking guru Jason Jacobsohn recently added a photo to his profile.

This is a good step forward for LinkedIn, and as competition heats up from other social networking sites like Facebook, I am eager to see what other changes they will make.

Comments

Mike, I like these features of LinkedIn because it allows you to find out what is happening with your network. Also, allowing you to add a photo in LinkedIn is a nice touch because it adds a little more personality to each profile. I encourage everyone to add a photo his/her LinkedIn profile. Yes, it is true that LinkedIn is looking more like Facebook, however, LinkedIn is still mainly for professionals.

Comment by Jason Jacobsohn
on 12/26/07 at 05:16 PM
 

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