Chrome Extension for LinkedIn

Overview

Common Room’s LinkedIn extension for the Google Chrome browser leverages our Person 360™ platform to bring relevant context about a person directly to LinkedIn. Using this extension, you can easily add contacts 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

Once installed, head to LinkedIn where you should see the Common Room logo floating overlay on the right. Clicking it will pop up contextual information.

Adding a Contact

A contact can be added to Common Room from both their their LinkedIn and LinkedIn Sales Navigator profile pages by clicking on the floating Common Room logo overlay and clicking on the Add and enrich 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.

FAQs

Why is my extension not importing contacts?

Please make sure that the extension is updated via chrome://extensions. Also, if you have any other extensions that work with LinkedIn, you can also try disabling those as well. We've seen some cases where multiple extensions can interfere with each other.

Can I add contacts from other websites to Common Room?

No, currently we only support adding contacts 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 from any LinkedIn profile.

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.