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LinkedIn Endorsements

LinkedIn Now Asks Confirmation For Endorsements To Be Visible on Profile

LinkedIn had stated in March that 1 billion endorsements were given on its popular professional networking site. It had created quite a stir and most of it on the negative side. People were unhappy about receiving endorsements from all and sundry. Some called it a spam and even questioned its existence.

Till now, these endorsements were visible on the profiles once they were given and the recipients used to get an email on the same. However, starting yesterday LinkedIn is now asking for your confirmation to make them visible on the profile pages (as shown in the image below).

LinkedIn Endorsements
LinkedIn Endorsement Confirmation

 

In a blog LinkedIn had given some big numbers: More than 50 million endorsements per week, 18 million people had given endorsements and it even stated that profile visibility had increased 4 times with endorsements. Strategic Planning, Customer Service, MS Office, Project Management, Recruiting, Public Speaking, Business Development, Marketing Strategy, Telecommunications, Social Media were the Top 10 endorsements  in its report.

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Linkedin Auto Messaging

LinkedIn’s Auto-generated Congratulatory Message

Its been a while since I sent a private message on Linkedin to any of my contacts. Today, in the updates, I saw that an ex-colleague of mine has joined another company as manager. So I thought of sending him a congratulatory message and also have few casual interaction. I just clicked on the “send message” link under the update and boy! the following happened:

 

Linkedin Auto Messaging

 

A neatly worded message (all the things that I actually wanted to type in) including the appropriate subject line was automatically generated in a pop-up window. For a second I was zapped but then after reading it, it felt pretty happy! Truly a very intuitive feature by LinkedIn, almost perfect, but only my signature was missing (feedback).

Folks at Linkedin, awesome stuff!

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