Linkedin Tests new ‘Find Nearby’ Feature

LinkedIn is testing another new feature to enable its users to connect with people nearby, whether it be in meetings, conferences, or events..

The new feature is called “Find Nearby”, and is a tool to network in a business and professional environment.

If in case you have attended conferences or trade occasions, you don’t have any doubt tried, efficiently or not, to attach with the folks you met, talked to, or listened to on stage. Nonetheless, catching a reputation, and discovering the best particular person on social media can typically be tough. “Find Nearby”is the ultimate tool to network. Though just a little creepier, the software also can enable you to join with folks you’ve got seen however not talked to at occasions.

 

The tool can help Linkedin users to connect with people that they have seen but not been able to speak to at an event. “Find Nearby” uses the users device’s Bluetooth to function and “scans” the people around you. Once a user has activated the feature, they can then choose to let people nearby discover them.

The feature first appeared in Iphone users on Friday. A LinkedIn spokesperson confirmed that the feature is now part of a global rollout after being beta-tested among selected members back in May.