{"id":1237,"date":"2020-04-10T12:35:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/ipapps\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2020-04-10T12:35:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:35:39","slug":"linkedin-asks-users-to-think-beyond-professional-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn asks users to think beyond professional networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic1.tadke.com\/imgs\/tech2lims\/0409\/xmdv5ypm0nu.jpg\" alt=\"LinkedIn asks users to think beyond professional networks\"><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js mt-3\">\n                In this Sept. 22, 2016 file photo, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner speaks during a product announcement at his company&#8217;s headquarters in San Francisco. LinkedIn wants users to step outside their professional silos to boost someone else&#8217;s career. Weiner on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, made a push to narrow a &quot;network gap&quot; that disadvantages people who don&#8217;t have access to strong professional or alumni networks. (AP Photo\/Eric Risberg, File)<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><p>LinkedIn wants users to step outside their professional silos to boost someone else&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p>        <!-- \/4988204\/TechX_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<p>The company pushed Thursday to narrow a &#8220;network gap&#8221; that disadvantages people who don&#8217;t have access to strong professional or alumni networks.<\/p>\n<p>The service says it&#8217;s not reversing its guidance that LinkedIn users accept connections only from people they know and trust. Instead, it&#8217;s nudging people to reach outside their traditional networks\u9225\u6515uch as someone they share a ride with or sit next to on a plane.<\/p>\n<p>It is pitched as an altruistic cause but could indirectly benefit LinkedIn&#8217;s growth if some users invite others to join the service.<\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn owner Microsoft says growth in the business has slowed down over the past year, though revenue has still been increasing more than 20% each quarter.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Sept. 22, 2016 file photo, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner speaks during a product announcement at his company&#8217;s headquarters in San Francisco. LinkedIn wants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[983,982,981,80,516],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-asks","tag-linkedin","tag-professional","tag-tech","tag-users"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}