Overview of Blog Indiana

Local bloggers from across Indiana will gather at the IUPUI Campus Center on August 16-17th, 2008, for Blog Indiana 2008, a 2-day blogging and social media conference that aims to promote education, innovation and collaboration among Indiana’s fast-growing blogging community. The conference is sponsored by the IU School of Informatics.

Blog Indiana 2008 is a 2-day conference for both experienced and new bloggers alike. Sessions will include topics such as blogging for beginners, using blogs in your business, monetizing your blog, political blogging and more advanced topics. In the past, most blogging and technology-related conferences have either been too expensive or too far out-of-state. Blog Indiana 2008 seeks to bring a low-cost, high-value conference to Hoosier bloggers.

Who Should Attend?
Students, hobbyists and professionals are encouraged to attend to network and learn. Experience with blogging or social media are not requirements to participate; anyone with an interest in technology and new media is welcome to attend.

Attendees
Seating is limited to 200 attendees.

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Employment and Hiring Opportunities

LinkedIn provides opportunity for people to search for new employees through the network. It seems that most job seekers and job posters on LinkedIn are involved in technical fields, such as web development: a search for “engineer” does not find jobs for mechanical or chemical engineers, but rather software engineers. However, non-technical jobs are posted and searched for here and there is no harm in advertising such jobs for LinkedIn’s audience.

Posting job openings is also easy and is similar to the services provides at sites like Monster.com. However, it is not free to post a LinkedIn job: the price is $145 USD as of 2008.

Answers Service

LinkedIn has recently released an Answers service akin to that of Yahoo. However, as would be expected on a network like LinkedIn, the quality, subject matter and style of answers is at a higher level than it is at Yahoo. The advice that applies to Yahoo’s Answers site can also be put towards LinkedIn. LinkedIn’s Answers pages to not tend to rank particularly well for the terms they contain, but they provide a professional forum where people will take the time to compose intelligent answers to you questions. It serves a good opportunity to solicit feedback from your community.

Using LinkedIn Answers for Customer Research and Though Leadership

A colleague of mine wanted to learn about customer service issues facing a communications service provider. He posted a question on LinkedIn Answers that resulted in dozens responses within a day. He was then able to engage the head of customer experience at that provider in a very well-informed discussion. As your answers are named top answers by your colleagues you will be increasingly deemed an expert. This strategy, when executed overtime, lends itself to a strategy for becoming a Thought Leader on any given space.

Google increasingly indexes your Linkedin.com profile if you allow it to be public. If linked to they will accumulate page rank. Of all the networking sites, LinkedIn may contain the least features, but a membership and presence at the site commands the most respect of all the popular networking opportunities available to you online. Although there are other professional networking websites that achieve similar things as does LinkedIn, this site is most popular with tech-oriented businesspeople.
The option to select your own anchor text for an outbound link also improves LinkedIn’s potential for helping you out with search engine rankings. Be sure to link out to all of your blogs and websites as well as to fill out your profile and add relevant contacts.

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