July 10, 2008
Extension of the Week: LinkedIn
coreyg @ 11:46 am
Have you ever wondered who is the best person to contact within an organization? Whether it is sales, partnership opportunities, or just trying to make a connection; the new LinkedIn extension for MindTouch Deki will help you with that.
To start follow the steps here for installing the LinkedIn extension.
Once installed you can add the name of the company you are looking for into the Extension and and find the contacts that work their. Here is an example:
Paste the following into a MindTouch Deki page(LinkedIn Extension needs to be installed first):
{{ linkedin.companyinsider("google", "noborder") }}
Once entered you will ge the following output:

You can even take it to the next step and make a dynamic form that will update the extension so you don’t have to change the code everytime. To do so you would paste the following code into your page:
Enter the name of a company to check your insider connections:
{{ dhtml.form{inputs: [ { label: "Company", value: __request.args.company ?? "mindtouch",
field: "company" }], button: "Find", publish: page.uri} }}
Then paste the following code right after the above code:
{{linkedin.companyinsider(__request.args.company ?? "mindtouch", "noborder")}}
This will look as follows:


Now you have a dynamic field that anyone on your team can enter company information into and it will bring up details right away.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact us.




This is awesome, great idea, thanks!
Comment by Kali — July 16, 2008 @ 10:05 pm