Connect your blog to your LinkedIn profile with Blog Link

Whether you're searching for someone to hire, or for someone to hire you, you're likely gathering information both from LinkedIn profiles and also from personal and professional blogs.  You've worked hard to establish your personal brand via your blog, so it makes sense to showcase it right on your professional profile.  The TypePad team that brought you Blog It has created an application to bring your blog and your LinkedIn profile together:  Blog Link powered by TypePad.

Blog Link is a free, easy-to-use application that allows you to connect your blog to your LinkedIn profile.  The application displays a feed of your latest blog posts right into your profile, so you can extend your personal brand even further by sharing  your thoughts and insights with your professional network on LinkedIn.

One of the best aspects of LinkedIn is the network you can build, and Blog Link has you covered there as well.  The "Your Network" tab in the application shows the most recent blog posts of people in your network, automatically finding their blogs as listed in their “Websites” list on their profile.  And as more of your contacts add the Blog Link application, your own latest posts show up in more places.  It's another great way to broaden and enhance your network on LinkedIn.

Blog Link is powered by TypePad, and it supports all blog platforms, including TypePad, Movable Type, Vox, Wordpress.com, Wordpress.org, Blogger, LiveJournal, and many more.  To learn more, visit  typepad.com/bloglink and add the application to your LinkedIn account today.

For a demo and more details on BlogLink, watch the video with David Recordon. David's our Open Technologies Lead, who's known for leading efforts around OpenID and OpenSocial, which powers LinkedIn Applications.

Comments

[Manuel Molares do Val]

Referring to my blog
http://cronicasbarbaras.blogs.com

Up to four days ago everything was OK with typad, but I not able to see it with my Explorer and or Firefox.

My computer has Windows Vista Home. I can't put my information into any of the two mentioned navegators. I have only access to insert my articles through Chrome.

Four days failing up to now, is to long a time for a good Typad program.

[Ken Millar]

I have a new weblog with only one post. When I sign up for the blog link to my LinkedIn page it does bring over the post but in duplicate. I have tried to remove and reinstall blog link but the problem returns. What have I done wrong?

[theweb]

Adding the Bloglink app in Linkedin under the form http://blog.belogistics.net doesn't work! The format is indeed announced as http://www.name.com!
Using another URI as http://www.belogistics.net/drupal/, which is another blog of mine does work.

Do you now if the former URI will work in the near future or is there a work around?

[henry]

Hello,

I have recently added the blog Link application to my LinkedIn profile. The installation was very smooth and the app is picking up the blog, but it doesn't appear on my public profile. How do I change this?

Regards,

Henry.

[henry]

Hello,

I have recently added the blog Link application to my LinkedIn profile. The installation was very smooth and the app is picking up the blog, but it doesn't appear on my public profile. How do I change this?

Regards,

Henry.

[The Typepad Team]

Hi Henry:

I believe if you're in the application on the LinkedIn side, you can click the "show in my profile" b ox, and that should work. Let us know if it doesn't!

[Valerie Gonyea]

I've tried to add the app to my linkedIn profile ( http://www.linkedin.com/in/gonyea ), but it seems to get hung up and then it says "We could not find any websites or blogs for your contacts.". I have over 1,100 contacts - MANY of them are bloggers who have already reported using this app - so this is just not possible. Also, I have my own blog listed under my website....does it have to be under the title "My blog" or will it pick up blogs for websites that are listed using the "other" feature and writing the title of the blog?

[David Recordon]

Hi Valerie,
I've now replied over on Get Satisfaction at http://getsatisfaction.com/sixapart/topics/the_most_abysimal_customer_service_experience_regarding_a_very_buggy_software_app. Sorry that it took so long!