Learn the thinking behind LinkedIn’s faceted search
May 4th, 2010 - Posted in Social Media Marketing by Tim Freestone
If you’re using LinkedIn as part of your social media marketing program – or just have an interest in this stuff – you’ll want to take a peek behind the curtain. The latest post on LinkedIn’s blog shows you how the new “faceted search” feature (launched at the end of last year) was designed. In the increasingly crowded and complex social media space, it’s important to get a sense of why some of the new features being introduced were developed at all. This will help you decide which to adopt and which to skip.
While I won’t rehash the entire post here (you can read the whole thing on LinkedIn’s blog), it was pretty interesting to learn some of the findings that influenced the development of faceted search:
