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bduncan
PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:42 pm    Post subject: MQSeries.net now lets you link to your LinkedIn.com profile Reply with quote

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Joined: 11 Apr 2001
Posts: 1554
Location: Silicon Valley

If you're like me and you've spent a bunch of time putting together the perfect profile on LinkedIn, why not get it out there for prospective employers, business partners, coworkers, etc, to see?

You might notice that at the bottom of my post there's now a little "LinkedIn" icon next to the AIM and email buttons. Clicking this will take you to my LinkedIn public profile.

Do you want to do the same? It's easy...
1. Signup at http://www.linkedin.com if you haven't already
2. Make sure your LinkedIn public profile is enabled. You can check with this url:
http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?editwp=
3. Update your MQSeries.net profile to include your LinkedIn profile. The url to do this is:
http://www.mqseries.net/phpBB2/profile.php?mode=editprofile

If you've done everything correctly, a LinkedIn icon should appear in all of your posts!

I wrote this code myself and I'd appreciate any feedback because I'm thinking of submitting it as an official phpBB mod:
http://www.phpbb.com/mods/

Disclaimer: I work for LinkedIn and yes this is a bit of self-promotion but I think this feature will add value to MQSeries.net because now you can see the professional credentials of the person answering your question - this may cause you to give more or less weight to it.
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bduncan
PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Padawan

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I realized that not everyone's public profile has a URL of the form:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/username

So I've updated the feature to allow you to enter URLs of the form:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/x/xxxxxx

Please let me know what you think of the feature and whether there's anything else I should do to it
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vilyin
PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:03 pm    Post subject: LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman Steps Down Reply with quote

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Joined: 26 Mar 2002
Posts: 20
Location: Ilyin Consulting Knowledge, Inc. USA - Boston, NY tri-state

Brandon,

What's going on in linkedin?
http://blogs.business2.com/beta/2007/02/linkedins_reid_.html

Can you give us an your view?

Thanks!!!
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HubertKleinmanns
PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shaman

Joined: 24 Feb 2004
Posts: 732
Location: Germany

bduncan wrote:
I realized that not everyone's public profile has a URL of the form:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/username

So I've updated the feature to allow you to enter URLs of the form:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/x/xxxxxx

Please let me know what you think of the feature and whether there's anything else I should do to it


... nice, I have already entered my LinkedIn profile.

What else you could do, hmmm ... maybe another cup of coffee
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Padawan

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Okay, I had one of our UI guys make a better icon that fits the look and feel of the rest of the phpBB icons.

As far as changes at LinkedIn, we see this as a good thing. Our new CEO is experienced at growing and managing teams, which frees Reid to focus on our products and long term vision.

There were many other articles about the change that took a much more optimistic tone, for instance this one from Red Herring:
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=21138&hed=LinkedIn+Thinks+Big
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