So a short time ago I wrote a blog post about Huddle, the online workspace & collaboration people, and their new desktop application. Since then, the small-yet-sturdy start-up have been cooking up some more delights together with the people over at LinkedIn, the social network for ‘experienced professionals’.

For those of you with a LinkedIn profile (like myself), you can now add the Huddle Workspace ‘application’ to your profile. This offers you all of the great functionality that you get from Huddle – workspace management and collaboration, time management tools and the same great options for syncing between home/work/partners etc, but extends the support in to your LinkedIn social network.

So what’s this good for? Well, LinkedIn is a great social network for the workplace. I’ve seen myself shift greatly since getting a LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn has given me the chance to interact with colleagues and other professionals in a new way, without any of the ‘party attitude’ and potential time-wasting that I get from Facebook. Trust me, I could waste hours playing games of not-quite-scrabble.

The Huddle app for LinkedIn has given me the chance to really start sharing stuff with other professionals in my field – not just direct colleagues, but anyone and everyone who I come into contact with and want to share work and ideas with. I can take some work I’ve been doing on a project, and share it with both the technology experts and the management types all on the same workspace, all through LinkedIn.

Don’t take my word for it though – it’s free to get a LinkedIn profile, and it’s free to install the Huddle app (just click Applications in the menu on the left, and find Huddle Workspaces at the bottom of that page).

Once you’re there, why not look me up?