The latest tool I started to use was the TripIt application that lets me see who is close in a city I'm visiting and announcing to my network where I'm heading in the future to simplify contact.
Here's my humble suggestions for improvements to the great LinkedIn team:
- My greatest pain right now is how to keep my CV updated in the corporate repository and the various sites on the web.
- Why don't LinkedIn offer a closed private space for employees to store their profiles?
- One could select which data would be private and which would be available through the public LinkedIn profile.
- Searches returns hits in the public LinkedIn network plus internal resources
- Staffing Managers and recruiters could search on Linked public + private and find resources inside and outside of the company. To connect with people outside the company they just have to contact the person knowing the searched for person
- Integration with corporate HR and recuitment systems would have to be done through a Web services API or similar.
- Thus I only have to maintain my CV at one place, what a world that would be.
- Based on a subscription fee LinkedIn would get more revenue and users.
- For companies this would lower their system costs (close down one system), utilize already existing networks of their employees, simplify access to brain power and use true cloud services.