Like any other social media, LinkedIn is also now jacked up with the stories feature. The story features are available in almost all the popular social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter. In twitter, it is called fleets, but anyhow everything denotes the feature “story”.
LinkedIn has always been a professional platform for people. It is a platform that professionally connects people. To make the proportion more balanced, LinkedIn has come up with the Stories feature. The pandemic made people stay in the home and virtually become the new reality. In order to obtain a new trend and to keep with the world, LinkedIn has come up with a new feature. By using this feature, they can able to share their precious moments with their connections. In this article, we will see a lot about the LinkedIn story feature and the steps to post their first story.
LinkedIn stories
The LinkedIn platform is now out with the “Story Feature”. Like every other story feature, a person can share their story in the form of image, video, or text. But if you are sharing a video in your story, then you are allowed only to share the 20 seconds long video. LinkedIn launches this feature stating that the platform will provide users with a chance to share their professional moments. But it is not restricted to that, users can share whatever they want to. After uploading a story, it will have a lifetime of 24 hours and then it will disappear on its own.
You can use a video from your mobile phone or else you can record a video using the camera of your mobile phone. And then you can share it with your story.
The new LinkedIn story feature is now available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands, UAE, and US. So now you can also enjoy this feature along with your connections throughout the world.
New Additions
Whatever the new features may be but people will always get attracted to the features which are close to their heart. Regional language is always very close to people. So LinkedIn has come up with localized stickers like Jugaad, India, Cricket, Chai-time, Yoga, and Auto Rickshaw. All these stickers have the flavors of India filled in it. So there is no doubt that people will find these stickers very entraining and also they will use them.
There is also a feature, which allows you to tag/mention the people on your stories. By using this feature, the people tagged people can individually able to react or reply to the story. The analytics and reports of every story you share are also available transparently to the user.
LinkedIn is all about interaction and maintaining the connection between the people, the platform greatly helps people to help and grow with each other. As a plus to this usage, LinkedIn has come up with the feature “Question of the Day”, this one allows people to ask questions to you. It will help people in building the network and also in supporting each other.
Other Updates
While launching the LinkedIn stories update, the LinkedIn community also opened up the important updates which focused more on making the LinkedIn experience enjoyable. The new updates will include a dark mode, face-to-face video calls using Microsoft Teams, streamlined search experience, Blue Jeans, Zoom directly from a message thread of LinkedIn.
The LinkedIn INDIA’S Country manager shared some numbers which prove that LinkedIn platform usage keeps increasing. He stated that from March 2019 to March 2020, there is a 60% hike in content creation. And almost 55% hike in the conversation between the LinkedIn connections.
The above numbers prove why LinkedIn is being mostly preferred between the people in the job search and also in finding the best clients in business. For university students, LinkedIn is highly recommended to find the best internship opportunities and also to know more about their industries.
Steps to post your First Story
The new feature is available both on Android and iOS devices. Before you take your mobile to post your first story, make sure the LinkedIn application is updated to its latest version. If there is no latest version then update it to the latest version. Some people may not be able to find the new version, but you don’t have to panic here. Generally, updates roll out in a staggered manner, so you don’t have to worry now. You will get your updated version soon.
- Once you have the updated version of your application on your phone, then open it and find the ‘+’ icon near your profile picture. If anyone of your connections has already posted their stories, then you can able to see them there.
- After selecting the plus icon, you can select the image or video you want to share. Otherwise, you can use your phone’s camera to take a picture or record a video. But make sure that the video should only be 20 seconds long.
- You can add some effects, stickers or texts to the image or video. The customization attracts people the most. It may be the date, time, greetings, quotes or stickers that make your choice and customize it.
- Once you are done with beautifying your story, you can share them with your network. You can add many stories by following the same steps.
So that’s how you need to share your first LinkedIn post. This redesign launched by LinkedIn is the biggest redesign announcement that LinkedIn has made in the past 5 years. LinkedIn never fails to impress people and this time it has upgraded along with the trend. We may also expect many rollouts in the coming weeks from the LinkedIn community.
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