Today’s news comes as the company pushes forward to close its acquisition by Microsoft. However, LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner remarked that additional innovations could be made under LinkedIn’s new ownership. This is only the beginning of the company’s foray into the world of bots, and there are no plans to open the messaging service to third-party developers any time soon. Over time, members will have access to an “assistant” that can help schedule appointments, send messages via Siri in iOS 10, place information on a calendar, offer additional context (think Rapportive), and much more. Coming soon will be a new feed - based around users’ interests - that surfaces newsworthy items about Uber’s self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, the rise of chatbots in Facebook Messenger, or innovations in artificial intelligence, like Salesforce Einstein.Īnd speaking of chatbots, LinkedIn is toying around with these mini applications to see how they fit in.
LinkedIn’s News Feed is also getting an upgrade, with an algorithm to surface relevant content that’s published and shared to the social network.
The company has also revealed that “coming soon” (specific dates were not shared), an updated experience will be released that is “cleaner, simpler, and more intuitive.” The update will be available to the company’s 450 million members and will come nearly a year after the company revamped its mobile app. In the future, the company will open up an enterprise option that supports multi-person licensing. LinkedIn Learning costs $30 per month, but those with a premium subscription to LinkedIn will get the service automatically.
The goal of LinkedIn Learning is to ensure that people are always up-to-date on new skills and have a good sense of how to use those skills to advance their career.
Those involved in professional development in the workplace can also assign courses to their office colleagues, and LinkedIn Learning will place those courses in a curated section. This is one of the benefits of LinkedIn’s economic graph, something that the company has touted for years.Ĭourses can be recommended to other users - I can send anyone I’m connected with a course on HTML5, photography, or even project management. The service will also show you aggregate info about people who have taken the course - their job titles and other skills - so you’ll be better informed about the steps to take after completing your training. What LinkedIn is doing is simply copying the education service and meshing it with its data so that you can learn new skills based on jobs you are interested in - without leaving LinkedIn’s platform.Īs with, LinkedIn Learning supports Learning Paths, which lays out the courses needed to land the job of your dreams.
But let’s be clear: Nothing is changing with the experience - will remain online for a while, according to a company spokesperson. However, that’s all changing with the launch of LinkedIn Learning. Last April, LinkedIn spent $1.5 billion to purchase, but for more than a year, the online education company remained as a standalone entity.