In line with some of the other Social media spaces like Google+, Facebook, Twitter, you can now mention connections and companies in professional conversations on LinkedIn.
The announcement was made yesterday via a blog post by LinkedIn employee, Angela Yang.
How does it work?
- Begin by typing the name of a connection or a company in your status update box or a comment field on the Homepage.
- Select someone from the list of your connections that appear in the drop-down, complete your status or comment and post it.
- The person or company you mentioned will receive a notification alerting them that they have been mentioned.
This feature started rolling out to English-speaking members yesterday, and LinkedIn will bring it to all global members soon.
It is expected that this will make it easier for users to start conversations and share knowledge with one another
Here is a slideshow of this new feature.