Another new LinkedIn feature
While checking for someone on LinkedIn.com I discovered LinkedIn had added another feature. This feature was already available on Xing.com and is found on some other online social networks. Basically what LinkedIn is now allowing you to know is who is looking at your profile.
They don’t come right out and say “Bill Smith looked at your profile on May 21st 2007 at 3:00pm, he used the following keywords to find it: venture, capital, associate.” They are actually a bit vague, some other online social networks show you exactly who is looking at your profile. I poked around a bit and learned you have some control over your anonymity in LinkedIn. The default is somewhat anonymous, which because this feature is brand new and still in beta is probably what the vast majority of users will continue to use for the near future.
This information shows up on your front page when you access the system, though I think you have some control over what information is displayed on your front page. You can see in the screen shots I took, how many and roughly who had looked at my profile in the first half of this month.
I’ve already blogged about LinkedIn about a half dozen times (one, two, three, four, and five). There are a lot of Sauder MBA Classmates in my network, who I can’t really talk to, because they don’t want to talk to me to put it mildly. I still don’t understand why all this happened, or why nothing can be done to improve the situation even after over two years… People still don’t believe me, they don’t care, they don’t want things to be better, and they definitely have not been my friend…
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