LINKEDIN INTRODUCES LINKEDIN LEARNING!!!

LinkedIn, the social site for working professionals to stay connected, brings in some new refreshing changes. After the three-step strategy, here are a slew of other announcements from the company.

Firstly, it has launched a new site called LinkedIn Learning. Its an e-learning portal that has been tailored for individuals, however not limited to them, as it caters to businesses looking to train employees. LinkedIn Learning offers about 9000 courses, and major content seems from Lynda. Those not in the know, LinkedIn had acquired Lynda, an online education site last year.

“With more than 450 million member profiles and billions of engagements, we have a unique view of how jobs, industries, organizations and skills evolve over time. From this, we can identify the skills you need and deliver expert-led courses to help you obtain those skills. We’re taking the guesswork out of learning,” the company writes in a blogpost.

Some of the subjects include business, technology, and creative topics like programming, writing, accounting and so on. Recently, LinkedIn’s announcements for India also revolved about bringing students onto the platform. The three initiatives were LinkedIn Lite, LinkedIn Placements and LinkedIn Starter Pack. You can read more about it here.

Well, this isn’t the only announcement from the company. It also gives the desktop site a facelift.  The new desktop experience will bring smarter content newsfeed, a refreshed UI experience and as expected – chatbots to the messaging service. These changes are expected to go live in the coming months.

“LinkedIn is also betting big on AI and bringing on virtual assistants to your conversation(a little bit like Google Assistant in Allo). But instead of helping you search jobs, the bot will be focused on ‘suggested content’ delivery right into the messaging experience. For example, if you’re conversing with an investor who wants to schedule a meeting, then the bot can pop-up, sync with your Google calendar and schedule the meet for you,” points out TheTechPortal.

Earlier this year, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for a jaw dropping $26.2 billion, and in cash. Whether it will help turn Microsoft’s fortune is debatable, but that’s a calculated risk the software giant had to take.