Today LinkedIn announced the use of applications on the social networking tool for business practitioners allowing them to further engage their growing audience. Right now there is only nine applications, but remember how fast facebook applications grew, it shouldn’t be long before new applications pop up.
The nine applications are:
- Amazon Book Lists – share your book lists with your colleagues
- SlideShare Presentations/Google Presentations – share presentations from trade shows and conferences
- Blog Link/WordPress – connect your blog to your LinkedIn profile
- Huddle Workspaces - Collaboration and sharing tools to share with your connections
- Box. net files - manages files through your LinkedIn profile
- TripIt - see where your LinkedIn network is traveling
- Company Buzz Application that collates all twitter feeds on your company name into the LinkedIn application
