LinkedIn gives you chance to speak out
The world’s leading digital resume site with 277 million users globally will now allow members to write and publish posts longer than the 600-character maximum that exists for status updates now.
The LinkedIn site has long sought to be more than just a place to list your credentials and with the new tool, which will be rolled out gradually to LinkedIn’s membership over the coming weeks, users will be able to write and publish posts longer than the 600-character maximum that exists for status updates now.
According to a recent report in The New York Times, Ryan Roslansky, director of product management at LinkedIn, said the goal was to get people to share their great professional insights, benefiting their network of contacts while also building their own reputations as experts in their field.
“Sharing this knowledge on LinkedIn is important because it becomes part of your professional identity,” he said.
The tool is a complement to LinkedIn’s SlideShare tool, which allows users to share multimedia, including videos and slide presentations, with their contacts and the public, as well as to the status update feature, which is geared to sharing links.