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A New LinkedIn Profile Feature: Tagging?

February 11th, 2009 by Erin Posted in Business, LinkedIn | No Comments »

While the big news out of LinkedIn this week is their big launch in Germany and the membership it will take away from the international business networking powerhouse Xing, I am more intrigued about the impending makeover coming soon to our LinkedIn profile pages.

LinkedIn’s expert follower, Steven Tylock, recently posted about a new LinkedIn feature called profile tagging.

Basically, as Tylock suggests, this tagging feature will give LinkedIn members more control over grouping their connection list.

Tagging – as the name suggests – is a simple word or key phrase used to identify something. In this case, a LinkedIn member would use a tag to identify certain connections in their network.

LinkedIn will kindly give you a few tag suggestions, but you’ll also be encouraged to come up with your own tag names. The possibilities are endless. However, I believe most people will stick to company, professional or social group names (i.e. Stature).

Ultimately, LinkedIn hopes you’ll be able to view your connections according to their designated tag, thus making a search for that certain someone easier than ever before. No more sifting through pages and pages of alphabetical lists.

Managing connection lists, especially for those LIONs who have an exorbitant amount, is not any easy task.

But as Tylock recommends, if you keep your tag lists short and your connections on a need-to-know basis you’ll be golden.

Generally, I’m not one for change – but this is one change LinkedIn members will not be able to live without.

LinkedIn profile tagging, coming soon…

 Tags: business networking, linkedin connections, linkedin lions, linkedin profile, profile tagging

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