Chrome Extension for LinkedIn

Overview

Common Room’s LinkedIn extension for the Google Chrome browser allows you to extract valuable signals from websites, starting with LinkedIn. Using this extension, you can easily add contacts, posts, comments, and reactions directly into Common Room from anywhere on LinkedIn.

Installing the Chrome Extension

To use the Chrome extension, you need to have signed up for Common Room and have an existing account/room. You can find the extension by going to Settings -> Signals and integrations in your room and clicking the Chrome Extension block. You'll be directed to the Chrome web Store, where you can Add to Chrome to install the extension. In most cases, the extension will automatically identify your Common Room credentials, but you might be prompted to log in if not.

Using the extension to add signals

Once installed, head to LinkedIn to add several new signals to Common Room. On LinkedIn’s website, you should see the Common Room logo floating overlay on the right. Clicking it will pop up contextual information.

Using the extension, you can add individual contacts to your Common Room directly from LinkedIn. You can also add entire posts automatically, which will pull in the profile of the person who created the post, the contents of the post, and profiles of everyone who has engaged with the post so far.

Adding a Contact

A contact can be added to Common Room from their LinkedIn profile page by clicking on the floating Common Room logo overlay and clicking on the Add contact button. This is a handy way to manually add specific contacts to Common Room directly from LinkedIn.

If the person already exists in your room, the extension will display their Common Room profile alongside their LinkedIn profile.

Automatically Adding a Post

When you add a post, information about the person who created the post, the contents of the post, and the profiles of everyone who has engaged with the post can be automatically added to Common Room.

You can add a post to Common Room from your feed or from a specific post URL. This is a handy way to bulk capture signals from influencer posts, for example, directly into Common Room.

On your feed, you can click on the Add post button with the Common Room logo. This opens a new tab where you can use the Common Room extension to add the post. From a specific post, clicking the Add post button brings up the extension and lets you automatically add it to Common Room. 

You may optionally pick a Common Room segment to which the contacts will be added. (We recommend that you either select an existing Common Room segment or create a new one so that you can easily filter the contacts and activities related to this post.)

Filtering and operationalizing signals added from the extension

After you’ve added your first contact or post, you’ll see LinkedIn Extension as a signal in your Signals filter. To narrow down to contacts or activities added via the extension, you can filter by the LinkedIn Extension signal wherever filters are supported. Using the Signal Specific -> LinkedIn Extension filter, you can filter by the number of posts, comments, or reactions.

If you selected a segment to add contacts to, you can view all those contacts in the segment or filter down to the segment wherever filters are supported.

You can view contacts who engaged with a specific post by using the Post interaction filter, which allows you to pick one or multiple posts and filter for all contacts who commented on or reacted to the selected post(s).

FAQs

Can I add contacts or posts from other websites to Common Room?

No, currently we only support adding contacts and posts from LinkedIn. But stay tuned for updates on support for other websites, and please let us know what you would like to see in our Slack community.

How does the Chrome extension differ from the LinkedIn signal integration in Common Room?

The LinkedIn signal integration adds contacts and engagement with your official LinkedIn company page or mentions of your company page only. This engagement is also ingested automatically, without any manual action needed.

Using the Chrome extension, you can manually add contacts and engagement from LinkedIn posts that don’t mention your company page, as well as from any LinkedIn profile.

When a post is added to Common Room, does future engagement with the post automatically get added as well?

The extension only adds information available at the time when the post was added to Common Room. In order to refresh or update data for a post in Common Room, you can visit the post again on the LinkedIn website and select “Refresh post in Common Room” in the extension. This will bring new engagement on that post into Common Room.

I have multiple rooms in Common Room, how can I change which room the extension uses?

Click on the Extensions button in your Chrome toolbar and select the Common Room extension. This will bring up a window that lets you pick the room instance to connect to.

Why are some contacts who engaged with a post missing from my room?

If you added the post very recently, we may still be working on processing it. Contacts will not appear instantly in your room, but should be visible shortly.

Additionally, the extension currently has some restrictions. Reactions to comments will not be added to your room, and some nested replies to comments may not be added. Images in comments will not be added either. Finally, we only support adding a maximum of 500 contacts per post, though this cap is subject to change in the future. If the number of people who have commented or reacted on a post exceeds 500, not all of them will be added to your room.