While LinkedIn opened a new customer service center and increased support staff significantly earlier this year, some policy changes made shortly thereafter flooded their customer service department with complaints from users whose accounts had been suspended. In most cases, LinkedIn replied with a letter explaining their connection policies, asking the user to abide by them, . . .
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Yesterday, Vincent Wright, founder of MyLinkedInPowerForum and dozens of related groups, announced yesterday that he will no longer be an active evangelist for LinkedIn, although he will remain a member and active user: And though I will remain a user of Linkedin and perhaps even a paid-member of Linkedin, my days as a self-appointed Linkedin . . . DeWitt Clinton reports on his blog about an accidental recruiting spam from LinkedIn. Apparently LinkedIn sent out an undisclosed number of invitations to software developers and possibly anyone who works or worked at a couple of large tech companies, including Google. The letters all began with the following (see the full message on DeWitt’s blog): . . . Security researchers (some would say hackers – more on that below) have discovered a vulnerability in LinkedIn Internet Explorer Toolbar, which can be exploited to execute malicious code on a user’s system. Until such time as LinkedIn releases an update, users of the toolbar are advised to disable or uninstall it. This does not affect . . . Dan Farber at ZDNet reports today that in a conversation last Friday, LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman told him that over the next 9 months, LinkedIn will be opening up to developers via a series of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). What this means in plain English for non-techies is that LinkedIn will make it . . . Time for another irregular roundup of blog posts and articles about LinkedIn from around the web. Online networking now used by 65% of professionals Hat tip to Community Stew for this one. The Institute for Corporate Productivity reports that nearly 2/3 of professionals are now using social networking web sites, with LinkedIn the leader . . . 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 . . . 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 . . . I hope this is the start of a trend… One of my biggest frustrations with LinkedIn has been the fact that they have not made a practice of getting user input about new features before they’re rolled out – only after the cat’s out of the bag. This used to be just irritating, but increasingly, . . . We all knew it had to happen sooner or later. LinkedIn has finally launched their official LinkedIn Blog. The blog will be run by blogger Mario Sundar, who came on at LinkedIn in March as their Community Evangelist. In addition to running the LinkedIn blog, Mario is also the main voice of LinkedIn in the . . . |
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