LinkedIn leaves 'status / ego' oriented networking strategy
I never though the day would come that I would see LinkedIn leaving it's status / ego oriented networking strategy but they have indeed (a bit).
What has changed?
LinkedIn have decided to drop a small but very important aspect of their search tool and to change it towards a new functionality. Once you try it you will no longer be able to search people and rank them towards 'amounts of contacts'. That little but most important item has led LinkedIn towards a fully status oriented network in which only numbers counted these last few years. It was probably necessary to reach a certain amount of people in the network, making it possible to switch to more quality related aspects. They finally have seen the light!
No longer the quantity oriented status-addicts on top, instead the quality of your connection will count. Probably it will still count the amount of 'recommendations' so we can expect a new 'race' there with people giving each other fake recommendations, but we can have some faith that LinkedIn will change that too now.
Sorry, but I am getting a bit emotional over this....now can we have some decent Profiling on LI as well with normal person to person direct interaction tools such as instant messaging and voice / video interactions? The ON would welcome them, naturally we have had those on www.opennetworkers.info for quite some time.
Why is this so important?
LinkedIn has something no other online network has: a 'connections export' feature. So you can go to your contact list and export all of them to another network or just your outlook address book. This small little feature has given birth to the majority of new social networks online today. It has triggered a wave of 'connection oriented online behavior' and spamming that wasn't very helpful in creating more quality oriented online interactions. Status and quantities were more important.
Should LinkedIn change it's strategy towards the quality of connections, you can bet that this export function will have had it's last days as well and that would change the online networking scenery totally, towards having more chances for self-development instead of status oriented profiling...
I wonder; is this a sign of Change, a move towards true individual profiling? Is this the Power of Now at work?
Attached is a screenshot of the new functionality
What has changed?
LinkedIn have decided to drop a small but very important aspect of their search tool and to change it towards a new functionality. Once you try it you will no longer be able to search people and rank them towards 'amounts of contacts'. That little but most important item has led LinkedIn towards a fully status oriented network in which only numbers counted these last few years. It was probably necessary to reach a certain amount of people in the network, making it possible to switch to more quality related aspects. They finally have seen the light!
No longer the quantity oriented status-addicts on top, instead the quality of your connection will count. Probably it will still count the amount of 'recommendations' so we can expect a new 'race' there with people giving each other fake recommendations, but we can have some faith that LinkedIn will change that too now.
Sorry, but I am getting a bit emotional over this....now can we have some decent Profiling on LI as well with normal person to person direct interaction tools such as instant messaging and voice / video interactions? The ON would welcome them, naturally we have had those on www.opennetworkers.info for quite some time.
Why is this so important?
LinkedIn has something no other online network has: a 'connections export' feature. So you can go to your contact list and export all of them to another network or just your outlook address book. This small little feature has given birth to the majority of new social networks online today. It has triggered a wave of 'connection oriented online behavior' and spamming that wasn't very helpful in creating more quality oriented online interactions. Status and quantities were more important.
Should LinkedIn change it's strategy towards the quality of connections, you can bet that this export function will have had it's last days as well and that would change the online networking scenery totally, towards having more chances for self-development instead of status oriented profiling...
I wonder; is this a sign of Change, a move towards true individual profiling? Is this the Power of Now at work?
Attached is a screenshot of the new functionality
Tags: change, linkedin, now, obama, of, people, policy, power, search, search-tool
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UPDATE: Today LinkedIn has also added OpenSocial applications such as we have here on OpenNetworkers.info which you can add to your Profile confirming a further move towards web 2.0, away from web 1.5.
Collaboration
One of these applications e.g. is the file sharing application (Box.net) we also have on the ON. So if you add e.g. a presentation on the ON using this box.net application, it will automatically show up as well on your LinkedIn profile.
Blog sharing
The also have the BlogLink applicatio, meaning you can add your ON profile hyperlink (go to 'My Page and copy your 'mypage' hyperlink to your LinkedIn profile) thus automatically showing all the actions you will do on the Open Networkers (it will auto-read the RSS from your ON Profile). Bit by bit they are trying to copy the ON strategy on which you can have just one place to publish, but with which it will be possible to reach all on all network. That is why we have created such a large crossportal network using all the same cross portal widgets and tools instead of giving all our energy to just one website / portal. You will be able use the ON increasingly effective bit by bit as all of these Portals will add the same OpenSocial applications....
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