Connect your Movable Type blog to your LinkedIn profile with Blog Link

Whether you’re searching for someone to hire, or for someone to hire you, it’s quite likely you’re gathering information from LinkedIn, as well as from personal and professional blogs. Since you spend so much time and energy on your own blog, why not put it right on your profile? It’s the perfect opportunity to show that you’re more than just a resume and a list of jobs; you’re a person with passions, interests, family and friends, traits many employers and potential employees will find admirable… and now it’s easy to do!

The team that brought you Blog It 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 share 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 BlogLink 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 most blog platforms, including TypePad, Movable Type, Vox, Wordpress.com, Wordpress.org, Blogger, LiveJournal, and many more.

For a demo and more details on Blog Link, watch the video with David Recordon, Six Apart's Open Platforms Tech Lead, who's known for spearheading Six Apart's efforts around OpenID, OpenSocial and other open technologies.

Visit the Blog Link page on TypePad.com for more info.