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LinkedIn Launches LinkedIn Contacts Tool for Smarter Relationships The professional networking giant Linkedin launched ‘LinkedIn Contacts’ today, a new tool for users and marketers to maintain smart relationships with their LinkedIn connections and to build relationships with people they don’t know. This new feature can be accessed from www.linkedin.com as well as through an iPhone app exclusively designed for LinkedIn Contacts. The new feature ‘LinkedIn Contacts’ is not yet available to all the users but to a very few as part of the Beta Testing Phase. You could be one of them, by joining the wait list here: LinkedIn Contacts.
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