1. New Features for LinkedIn
LinkedIn Today
Sign In Main Toolbar “More” “News”
Delivers the day’s top news, tailored to you based on what your connections and industry peers are
reading and sharing.
Outlook Social Connector
Sign In Scroll to the bottom of your screen “Tools”
A tool that allows you to sync your LinkedIn Connections with your Outlook Contact and Address Book,
so you can manage your professional connections in one place.
Browser Toolbar
Sign In Scroll to the bottom of your screen “Tools”
A feature added to your browser toolbar that offers direct access to LinkedIn, quick search within
LinkedIn, and the ability see your inside connections at hiring companies if viewing job listings on sites
that are supported by LinkedIn (Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice, Simply Hired, etc.).
Swarm*
http://swarm.linkedinlabs.com/
A tool that visualizes LinkedIn’s most recent company and titles searches, jobs posted, blog entries and
shared articles as a moving “tag cloud.” It cycles through a variety of topics automatically.
InMaps*
http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com/ Log-In
An interactive visual representation of your professional universe to help you better understand the
relationships between you and your entire set of LinkedIn Connections, leverage your professional
network to help pass along job opportunities, seek professional advice, gather insights and more.
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2. Resume Builder*
http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/ Log-In
Turn your LinkedIn Profile into a beautiful resume in seconds. No more messing around with multiple
Word and PDF documents scattered all over the computer. Pick a resume template, customize the content,
and print and share.
Projects and Teamspaces
Sign In Main Toolbar “More” “Get more applications…” “Projects and Teamspaces”
A project collaboration and management application that allows you to set tasks, complete projects, share
documents and more with your LinkedIn Connections.
Skills
Sign In Main Toolbar “More” “Skills”
Surface the top people, top locations, related jobs and groups associated with thousands of skills which
LinkedIn members have identified as areas of expertise. LinkedIn Skills also provides top related skills
for a given industry with trending information on which skill is growing or declining in that industry, and
offers users the ability to add new skills to their profiles.
LinkedIn Mobile
App Store on your Mobile Device
LinkedIn now supports free mobile apps for the iPhone, Droid and Blackberry that allow you to view
status updates, reach out to connections and more while on the go. Don’t want to download the app?
LinkedIn also has a mobile-optimized site that can be visited at http://m.linkedin.com.
*These features have been created through LinkedIn’s “Hackday” meetings and were released to the
public as beta tests. For this reason, they reside on the LinkedInLabs site and can only be accessed from
the address provided. Also, LinkedIn reserves the right to pull these tools down at any time, or officially
incorporate them into the LinkedIn platform.