I have to say, I was surprised by this. Today when I logged into the new LinkedIn (funny, I didn’t see any news on this) I noticed that there was a prominent area to click and see who has looked at my profile. I have used this feature in the past, and it simply showed you “anonymous” viewing data, like “Group Program Manager from Microsoft” viewed your profile. I never got to see who was the actual viewer.

Upon clicking the link today, I was asked to make my name, photo and title viewable to other people on Profile Stats in order to see any profile stats for my profile.

When you click on the profile view settings you get this screen which goes into more detail.

I find this all very fascinating. LinkedIn is pushing the envelope on privacy here (and getting consent).

I wonder how far off Facebook is from shipping this.

Warning: this post is only interesting if you work somewhere that uses Outlook + Exchange and have retention policies enabled.

I subscribe to a lot of distribution lists at work that get a lot of traffic. I generally “scan” this lists and delete most of the stuff monthly. But that can result in almost a gigabyte of email taking up space in my inbox, syncing etc.

Well, using retention policies you can specify how long to keep mail in a folder before automatically deleting it. Simply right click on a folder, select properties and set the amount of time you want to keep email.

In this case, I only want the last weeks’ worth of email from the Windows Phone 7 DL since each week generates a few thousand messages.