Ah... the tweaks explained
Fortunately, with people like Shally Steckerl about, it's possible to understand what the recent LinkedIn tweaks are all about.
Shally's recent ERE blog "Recent LinkedIn Changes – Boom or Bust?" covers the changes with regard to invitations.
Shally takes exception to the limit of 256 characters (including spaces) for your invitation. To me, I like to keep things brief to I'm less concerned about this.
The bit I find interesting is that the mechanism of inviting has changed.
Now, when you invite someone you are prompted to choose how I know the person.
If they are a Colleague, Classmate or Business Partner you don't need their email to send an invitation to connect. If you describe them as either a Friend or "Other" then you need their email address (which is the same as it always used to be)
But, you can now invite people who you don't know.
This is a major change for LinkedIn. And it also explains why another tweak that happened recently is that you can now reply to invitations you receive.
** NOTE **
When I tried testing these functions on LinkedIn following Shally's blog I could not find them. When LinkedIn introduce new features they often test them over a period of time, turning them on and off as they do so. I suspect that these new features are not fully up yet.
Or I'm just being a bit thick :-)
Technorati Tags - Online Networking, Social Networking, LinkedIn
Shally's recent ERE blog "Recent LinkedIn Changes – Boom or Bust?" covers the changes with regard to invitations.
Shally takes exception to the limit of 256 characters (including spaces) for your invitation. To me, I like to keep things brief to I'm less concerned about this.
The bit I find interesting is that the mechanism of inviting has changed.
Now, when you invite someone you are prompted to choose how I know the person.
If they are a Colleague, Classmate or Business Partner you don't need their email to send an invitation to connect. If you describe them as either a Friend or "Other" then you need their email address (which is the same as it always used to be)
But, you can now invite people who you don't know.
This is a major change for LinkedIn. And it also explains why another tweak that happened recently is that you can now reply to invitations you receive.
** NOTE **
When I tried testing these functions on LinkedIn following Shally's blog I could not find them. When LinkedIn introduce new features they often test them over a period of time, turning them on and off as they do so. I suspect that these new features are not fully up yet.
Or I'm just being a bit thick :-)
Technorati Tags - Online Networking, Social Networking, LinkedIn
posted by David Regler at
6:04 am
1 Comments:
The thing is that the AI decides which "invite" to put on your screen depending on how you ended up clicking on that person's profiles. It considers many different things but I suspect among them are the distance between you and that person, how many times you intersect, and if you have uploaded them via imports or scanning your inbox. You may get the "regular" invite if the path is strong, or sometimes the new type of invite with the choices and the 256 limit if the path is weak. Also, its possible the limitation is only temporary.
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