LinkedIn Launches LinkedIn Contacts Tool for Smarter Relationships
The professional networking giant
Linkedin launched ‘LinkedIn Contacts’ today, a new tool for users and marketers
to maintain smart relationships with their LinkedIn connections and to build
relationships with people who they don’t know. This new feature can be accessed
from www.linkedin.com as well as through
an iPhone app exclusively designed for LinkedIn Contacts.
The new feature ‘LinkedIn Contacts’
is not yet available to all the users but to a very few as part of the Beta
Testing Phase. You could be one of the very few to get it soon, by joining the
waiting list here: LinkedIn
Contacts. So, what can you get of LinkedIn Contacts? Let’s have a detailed
look.
All your contacts in one place:
LinkedIn Contacts will not just bring together your LinkedIn contacts
but also all your address books, emails, and calendars and keeps them up to
date in one place. The tool also collects details about your past meetings and
conversations (Based on past meeting logged in your calendar and E-mail
conversations) with your connections and also allows you to add notes to them
(Eg. Had a nice chat on topic ‘XXX’ with this person ‘YYY’ on event ‘ZZZ’ ).
According to Sachin Rekhi (Product Lead, LinkedIn), this tool can also grab
contacts from applications like TripIt, Evernote and Cardmunch. Rekhi also
added that, the tool does not access data from Twitter, Facebook and enterprise
applications like ERP and CRM for now.
Never Miss an Opportunity to say Hello:
LinkedIn Contacts also give notifications to users about
their contacts having birthdays and job changes in their network. Isn’t it a
perfect opportunity to say Hello to your not-in-touch contacts and give your
relationship a tickle? Sachin Rekhi also added in his interview to a group a
reporters ‘It actually shows you the folks you’ve lost touch within your
network’.
Take it on your mobile device:
LinkedIn Contacts is also available on iPhone to stay in
touch with your connections on the go. The company is in process to also come
up with an android application and an optimized version for the users to access
from any mobile browser.
Rekhi also added ‘LinkedIn has no intention to pull
contacts from Twitter or Facebook, as it wants to stay focused on your
professional relationships’. LinkedIn contacts also use an algorithm to
differentiate real people from the spammers to show up in your contacts list. It
is also possible for the users to filter their contact list in number of ways
like the last time the user interacted with people on their list and by the
people who are added recently. LinkedIn Contacts tool promises to solve one of
the major challenges faced by the professionals across the world nowadays. We
will have to wait for LinkedIn to make the tool available for all the users to
explore more about the features and limitations.
Image Source: LinkedIn
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