LinkedIn is personalising its homepage in a massive way with two new features to aid connections on its service. The features have to do with profiles you have checked out, discussions you have visited or participated in and users who’ve viewed your updates.
Called 'Who’s Viewed Your Updates' and 'You Recently Visited', these features will aim to provide users with more personalised insights of your activities on the professional networking site. These sections can be found on the right-hand side of your Homepage, under the 'People You May Know' tool.
Called 'Who’s Viewed Your Updates' and 'You Recently Visited', these features will aim to provide users with more personalised insights of your activities on the professional networking site. These sections can be found on the right-hand side of your Homepage, under the 'People You May Know' tool.
The 'Who’s Viewed Your Updates' tool is pretty self explanatory. It will show you a snapshot of all you’ve shared over the past 14 days and how it has been received. It will tell you how many views, likes and comments the post has received. The tool will not just show you engagement from your 1st degree connections but also how many 2nd and 3rd degree connections engaged with your shared posts.
Since LinkedIn plans to push itself as a content-sharing site, giving users the ability to track feedback in real time seems like a great way to begin. The good thing about this feature is that LinkedIn plans to offer it for free and not as a premium feature.
Users can now see highlights of profiles they’ve seen in the past with the 'You Recently Visited' feature. It will show you people you have looked up, searches you’ve made, group discussions you’ve viewed or participated in. It goes beyond just being a tool to remember profiles you’ve seen and extends itself to discussions too. LinkedIn thinks that this tool will help make easier for you to retrace your steps, re-engage in conversations and follow-up with colleagues.
Caroline Gaffney, Product Lead at LinkedIn writes in a that the service’s goal is to create a customised experience that would make it easier for users to “begin each day armed with the knowledge and insights you need to be productive and successful.” These tools are a move in that direction for LinkedIn. Gaffney also writes that LinkedIn has been working on improving the Homepage experience for the past year and there are more features in the pipeline.
Since LinkedIn plans to push itself as a content-sharing site, giving users the ability to track feedback in real time seems like a great way to begin. The good thing about this feature is that LinkedIn plans to offer it for free and not as a premium feature.
Users can now see highlights of profiles they’ve seen in the past with the 'You Recently Visited' feature. It will show you people you have looked up, searches you’ve made, group discussions you’ve viewed or participated in. It goes beyond just being a tool to remember profiles you’ve seen and extends itself to discussions too. LinkedIn thinks that this tool will help make easier for you to retrace your steps, re-engage in conversations and follow-up with colleagues.
Caroline Gaffney, Product Lead at LinkedIn writes in a that the service’s goal is to create a customised experience that would make it easier for users to “begin each day armed with the knowledge and insights you need to be productive and successful.” These tools are a move in that direction for LinkedIn. Gaffney also writes that LinkedIn has been working on improving the Homepage experience for the past year and there are more features in the pipeline.
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