LinkedIn is most known as a place to network or look for a new job, but now the career-oriented social network is working on some new tools to help users connect with their current coworkers.<\/p>\n
A source from LinkedIn told Mashable<\/em> that the company is developing two products that can bring employers, employees and colleagues closer together.<\/p>\n That way, the platform can be better utilized to improve connections within the office, rather than outside of it.<\/p>\n The tools will make it easier to access employee information, as well as share content relevant to your workplace.<\/p>\n The first, which is piloting to a handful of customers in the coming weeks, allows users to sendInMail \u2014 LinkedIn’s version of email \u2014 to coworkers, even if they aren’t already connected.<\/p>\n The tool would also allow users to upload their contact information (like email and phone number), making it easy for coworkers to access that information.<\/p>\n The second product is all about content sharing. It would allow company administrators to send out information to groups of relevant employees.<\/p>\n For example: if a workplace is recruiting software engineers, the employer could send out something like the a blog post about the company’s software engineering philosophy (via the new LinkedIn tool) to a subset of specific employees, who then might share it to their network.<\/p>\n That, in turn, might make the company seem attractive to potential employees.<\/p>\n LinkedIn is exploring a few ways to increase intra-office content sharing. The representative toldMashable<\/em> that these groups might be accessible in a mobile app, desktop product and\/or some other way. LinkedIn expects to start a trial of this tool at the end of the quarter.<\/p>\n LinkedIn isn’t the only one experimenting with in-office social networking.<\/p>\n Facebook at Worklaunched to a select group on Wednesday. So if small talk in the office kitchen isn’t your thing, some new-age networking opportunities are on their way.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source:\u00a0mashable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LinkedIn is most known as a place to network or look for a new job, but now the career-oriented social network is working on some new tools to help users connect with their current coworkers. A source from LinkedIn told Mashable that the company is developing two products that can bring employers, employees and colleagues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-82870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}