Today LinkedIn announced support and integration for third-party applications like SlideShare, Wordpress, and Amazon.
Why is this important?
LinkedIn is generally considered the 'professional' networking site. Only serious business is done on Linkedin; recruiting, searching for opportunities, networking for decidedly commercial reasons.
The ability to integrate your SlideShare presenations, blog posts, and Amazon reading lists into your LinkedIn profile can only enhance and augment your LinkedIn presence. It allows you to leverage content you spend long, hard hours creating in a new and very important space.
I tell my students in the first class, you absolutely need to be on LinkedIn.
In the next class, I will also tell them you need to take advantage of the full capabilities of these new application integrations.
Well done, LinkedIn.