With more than 150 million members, LinkedIn is a prominent communication and networking platform popular with business professionals. Functioning like another social channel, LinkedIn presents a great opportunity for your website to use word of mouth marketing via your users. Janrain enables websites to easily tap this large professional audience by implementing LinkedIn logins and social publishing.
Janrain has implemented a step-by-step setup process to enable login with LinkedIn. LinkedIn allows websites access to a user's data such as first and last name, location, display name, photo URL and date of birth.
Extended profile data is also returned, including: summary, headline, industry, current status, total number of connections, current and past work history, education history, Twitter profile, instant messaging accounts, interests, associations, specialties and honors.
Janrain normalizes the data returned by LinkedIn into a portable contacts format for easier consumption and actioning by your website and applications. Janrain offers a standardized set of interfaces to let users publish their activity on your site back to their professional network.
Services available through Janrain Engage:
1. The Business Journals allows their users to register and log on to their site with Janrain social login.
2. When a user selects LinkedIn to register, they are prompted to log in to their LinkedIn Profile.
3. Once verified, the user is directed back to The Business Journals website to finish regisration and agree to their terms of service.
4. Once the registration is complete, the data collected from LinkedIn is pre-filled into the user's Business Journals profile.
