01 December 2011, 18:59

Hi there,

Is there anyway of adding a plugin or something between linkedin and Mahara. I see there are plugins for facebook and twitter but I cannot see anything for linkedin. Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Heidi

02 December 2011, 4:02

What do you expect from such a plugin that would link Mahara with LinkedIn?

-dajan

02 December 2011, 5:32

I'd be interested in seeing how the LinkedIn API could be exploited for Mahara.

For my classes, I show them:

1. how to link to their "Professional Page" in Mahara, using the "Portfolio" field on their LinkedIn profile
2. how to create a kewl "LinkedIn" button on their Mahara page which goes to their LinkedIn profile
3. how to publish an RSS feed of their network updates on a Mahara page

The first two are shown in this informal tutorial:
http://careerportfolio.mb.ca/view/view.php?id=1287

The third is demonstrated in this example (bottom right of the page):
http://careerportfolio.mb.ca/user/view.php?id=5

...but showing your updates is only interesting/appropriate to yourself, so is suitable only for dashboard/Profile Page.

You can also subscribe via RSS to LinkedIn Answers, with an example shown just below on that same page, but I don't find this very helpful.

Here are some APIs that I think are worth looking at:

The Profile API should be able to publish LinkedIn profile information on a Mahara page:
https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/profile-api

The Connections API returns a list of connections for a user
https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/connections-api

...and there are several others which may be useful, either for performance support/learning or for showcasing.

I'd be really interested in an ongoing dialogue on this, since I can't ignore LinkedIn and would like to work with it better.

06 December 2011, 6:43

This would be a really interesting feature! I will follow its realization. / Jonas :-)

03 January 2012, 3:38

Haven't got time to play with the API, but did manage to create two plugins for integration with Mahara out of several available LinkedIn plugins.

LinkedIn Profile for embeding LinkedIn public Member Profile to a Mahara page.

LinkedIn Share button for adding LinkedIn Share button to a Mahara page so that updates can be sent to this service.

Both plugins are available at http://mahara.org/view/view.php?id=35645

HTH,
Gregor

03 January 2012, 6:38

That's great, Gregor! Is that the full Public Profile or just the Profile Summary?

The first would be awesome. Users could maintain their profile in one place while publishing on both LinkedIn and Mahara...

This will be part of my Mahara soon...

03 January 2012, 6:47

I believe it is the Profile Summary which contains a button, to full public profile in another window (I believe).

Regards,
Gregor

09 January 2012, 15:46

Added full public profile beside public profile summary, thanks to Don Presant (for the idea and testing).

Plugin available at http://mahara.org/view/view.php?id=35645

Gregor

14 May 2012, 13:33

HI Gregor:

Having trouble getting the Profile Summary working today...is it me, or has LInkedIn changed something that's broken the plugin?

Full Public Profile works OK.

27 December 2015, 11:06

Merry Christmas Mahara community.

New version (15.12.0) of Linkedinprofile plugin for Mahara is here. You can get it at https://github.com/povsod/mahara-blocktype-linkedinprofile/releases/tag/v15.12.0

This version is compatible with Mahara v15.10.

Gregor