LinkedIn has always fascinated me on if and how they release information on their new functionalities or services. On the one had, the LinkedIn Groups Product Forum LinkedIn Group, often moderated by LinkedIn employees, is very open with releasing information on future roadmaps as well as welcoming feedback from the LinkedIn community concerning LinkedIn Groups. On the other hand, LinkedIn releases a beta feature (like their new user interface, for instance) to only a small portion of their users but writes a blog post announcing it to everyone. There have been other beta features that have only been released to a …
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If you are still using the free version of LinkedIn, you may have been curious about the new LinkedIn Profile Organizer. I received the same email that all of you LinkedIn users probably did advertising this as a new killer functionality. The timing of the announcement is interesting in that it happened almost one year after LinkedIn Applications were introduced. Come to think of it, this is the first new major functionality that LinkedIn has introduced in a year [and as I write this LinkedIn just made a significant upgrade in their user interface, so this may have been what …
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