Our Look at the LinkedIn Social Connector for Outlook

Note: Only 32-bit Outlook is currently supported, but they advise a 64-bit version will be arriving soon.

We need to go in and uninstall the OSC that came included in Office 2010 beta.

If you dont do this step, Outlook will crash…and we learned the hard way.

After successfully installing OSC and LinkedIn Outlook Connector, youll see a new pane for contacts.

Successfully logged in and connected to LinkedIn…click Finish.

Youll get a congratulations message saying everything is great…just close out of the message.

Select not to show the message anymore then click Continue.

Now the contact will show up with their avatar and information from LinkedIn.

you could see the option to add a contact on another social web connection too.

The Social connection Accounts window opens and youll want to press the View social connection providers available online link.

Outlook Social Connector Outlook 2007

We were able to use Outlook Social Connector Beta in Outlook 2007 as well.

And there is no uninstalling anything with 2007 as it doesnt include OSC in the first place.

Just load the OSC Beta and the LinkedIn Social Connector.

Here is a look at using LinkedIn for Outlook in 2007…

If youre an early adopter and enjoy testing out new software, then this is for you.

Download Office 2010 Beta

Download Outlook Social Connector

Download LinkedIn for Outlook