Welcome to the January 5, 2009 edition of linkedin bloggers.  I think this is the biggest/longest one we’ve had yet!  So good to see so many people participating.  Please do make sure you visit the blogs linked below and encourage our contributors.  All participants are members of Linkedin.com and write blogs.

I’m looking for hosts for this year from March through to December – so if you’re interested, please get back to me.

Brian Terry presents 5 Powerful Ways To Instantly Jump Start Your Article Marketing posted at Big Yellow Blog of Turbo Marketing Secrets, saying, “Article Marketing is the process of distributing information online that proves your expertise within your niche market. Article Marketing also helps you build 100’s of inbound links for your website that help you attract more quality traffic which lead to increased sales and revenue.”

CMOE presents CMOE Contest Giveaway – STARTS TODAY! posted at Teamwork, saying, “CMOE is a world renown business coaching center and they just opened up a new contest to help motivate people to become familiar with their resources. Win Amazon cash and a set a CMOE’s business coaching books.”

SEO Genius presents Blogging | 7 Factors that determine a blogs success posted at SEO Tutorials – SEO Tips and Tricks – Marketing Articles, saying, “This article takes a look at what makes a blog a success, determining the main factors which make a blog a success.”

Thomas J. West presents Flute Teaching for the Non-Flutist posted at Thomas J. West Music, saying, “Unless flute was your major instrument, it is likely that your ability to demonstrate proper flute embouchure to a student is limited. The best way to learn, of course, is to pick up a flute with your students and learn along with them. If you have a music education degree from a creditable institution, you most likely had the woodwind methods class that gave you a taste of playing the instrument yourself. You probably don’t have enough clock time on the instrument to develop much tone or control of the flute, however.”

Susan Tatum presents Business Website Development – Testing and Measuring | Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Brian Terry presents Blogging Your Way to Big Traffic posted at Big Yellow Blog of Turbo Marketing Secrets, saying, “Having a blog means one thing: in order for you to be successful, you need to be able to generate a constant stream of traffic to your blog. You need to have traffic; otherwise, you’ll be getting nowhere with respect to your goals. So how can you blog your way to big traffic?”

Brian Terry presents 5 Essential Search Engine Optimization Tips To Increase Your Website Ranking On Search Engines posted at Big Yellow Blog of Turbo Marketing Secrets, saying, “If you are selling products on a website, then search engine optimization (SEO) becomes a very important part of your web business. An optimized website tends to have higher page ranking on search engines. Naturally, the website also receives larger volumes of traffic directed through search engines. The more traffic your website gets, the more business or sales you are going to make.”

Jackie Nees presents It’s Not Who You Know – It’s Who You Used to Know posted at Virtual Girl – Virtual World.

Terence Kierans presents How to Stay in Business—When the Sky Falls In posted at CVS Blog.

Janet Barclay presents Are You in it for the Long Haul? posted at From the Desk of Janet Barclay, saying, “Do you see your business as a temporary source of income, or is it your career? The answer to this question will impact on nearly everything you do!”

SEO Genius presents Marketing Articles | 12 Ways to bring in targeted and untargeted traffic posted at SEO Tutorials – SEO Tips and Tricks – Marketing Articles, saying, “12 Ways of increasing traffic both for the short and long term to your blog. Using these 12 key strategies you’ll increase traffic forever.”

Tim Tyrell-Smith presents Do You Have a Job Search Strategy Or Are You Just Spinning? posted at Spin Strategy™ – Tools for Intelligent Job Search, saying, “My linked in profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/timtyrellsmith My blog is about a new job search strategy, tips and the psychology of search.”

Craig S. Kiessling presents West Bank Marketing Genius | CSKnet posted at CSKnet.

Andrea J. Stenberg, The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur presents 7 Ways to Use Twitter For Fun & Profit posted at The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur by Andrea J. Stenberg, saying, “Ever wondered how to use the microblogging site Twitter.com as a marketing tool? Andrea J. Stenberg shares the top 7 ways she uses Twitter. Check out Andrea’s LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreastenberg”

Raymond presents Where Is The Safest Place To Save Or Invest Your Money? posted at Money Blue Book.

Sheila Scarborough presents Put a fork in it, the press release is (almost) dead posted at Every Dot Connects, saying, “How to use your social media network to get the word out about your event or business, rather than overpriced press releases.”

Brian Terry presents 3 Major Keys To Online Wealth? posted at Big Yellow Blog of Turbo Marketing Secrets, saying, “In all that I’ve learned so far in my studying of what it takes to create wealth online is that there are a “lot” of keys you need to understand how to use.”

Andy presents Do search engines like your Web site? posted at Personal Plug, saying, “Between 75% and 98.8% of visitors to Web sites come from searches made at search engines. If you’re going to get high levels of traffic – and hence the levels of ROI you’re looking for – it’s very important that the search engines can access all the information on your Web site.”

Anne Maybus presents Does viral marketing work? posted at The Tall Poppy, saying, “A great example of the way viral marketing can work and things we can learn from it. http://www.linkedin.com/in/amaybus”

Sandy Naidu presents Publicity Tips For Women Owned Business – Starting Up A Publicity Business – Business Idea Entrepreneur | Interviews With Successful Business Owners posted at Interviews With Business Moms.

Andy presents Video – Use Blog Carnival & get FREE Targeted Traffic posted at Personal Hack, saying, “How to explode your search engine rankings and get lots of extra traffic to your website for free.”

Anya Portnik presents Now is the time for sales heroes posted at Gavin Ingham.

Dustin Woodard presents LinkedIn Humor posted at Web Connoisseur, saying, “Linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/woodard”

Brian Terry presents 4 Great Ways to Explode Your Article Marketing posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, “The idea of building your online business via article marketing has been around for ages. Even before the Internet it was used by publishers to get free content from contributors in exchange of free advertising.”

Andy presents How Boost Sales And Boost Profits Effortlessly | Personal Plug posted at Personal Plug, saying, “Nearly all web marketers squander their time hunting one trend to another. Be it SEO, social media, press releases etc. Obviously, I am not saying those techniques are completely ineffective. If accomplished aptly and in the correct situation, they are all vastly valuable. But without the proper basis, they are basically that – marketing processes. They do not earn any sort of earnings without this skill.”

Simon Stapleton presents The SimonStapleton.com Cancer Charity Fundraiser : SimonStapleton.com posted at Career & Personal Development for CIOs, Technical Professionals and Self-Professed Geeks, saying, “So until the end of this month I am going to help Cancer Research charities by giving $1 for every Digg and Stumble of my site and 50 cents for every comment left!”

Andy presents Shared Website Hosting – The Pros And Cons posted at Personal Plug, saying, “For people looking to host a website the most popular and cost effective choice is usually shared online webhosting. Shared online webhosting offers multi platform website solutions for many websites shared online webhosting is the ideal solution.”

Sarah Scrafford presents 100+ Free Open Courseware Links for Web Designers posted at eLearning Gurus.

Susan Tatum presents Are Prospects Searching for You Online? posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Andy presents Tip On Writing A Feature Article – For Online Success! posted at Personal Plug, saying, “The No.1 challenge of all marketers is getting targeted traffic and targeted paid traffic is rarely cheap. You all know that Adwords costs are skyrocketing these days just like oil prices and it is getting harder to make money using PPC.”

Janet Barclay presents The Importance of R&R posted at From the Desk of Janet Barclay, saying, “How much time do YOU spend working and playing? Please answer this very short survey and I’ll share the results in a future blog post.”

Wayne John presents 10 Cool Create an Avatar Web Sites posted at Wayne John, saying, “What web site are these people visiting to create these cartoon styled avatars? I found a mess of them, and tried each one out. If you are looking for a new look on the web, this is a great starting point.”

John W. Furst presents Todays Lesson: Burying BlogRush Syndicate posted at E-Biz Booster Blog, saying, “It started out with a big, big rush around September 15th 2007. Now it’s history, but don’t miss the one important lesson…”

Raymond presents How To Become A Millionaire and Get Rich In 10 Steps posted at Money Blue Book.

Mark Montgomery presents The Credit Crunch and Financial Aid: What Will It Mean for College Admissions? posted at Great College Advice.

Andy presents Top 5 Tips On Designing An Seo Friendly Website posted at Personal Plug, saying, “Getting high rankings in major search engines is essential for maximizing your visibility online and growing traffic to your small business website. More and more small businesses are realizing that the best way to reach prospective customers is through search engines like Google.”

isabella mori presents simplicity and the internet posted at change therapy, saying, “an article a propos to the topic of this carnival. how many online connections can we sustain?”

Brian Terry presents Traffic vs. Sales Conversions – Which Is Better? posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, “This is a question I get time and time again, “how do I generate more traffic to my website?”. The problem is and it’s what most people miss out on is it’s not just about the traffic.”

Kevin Dawson presents The 10 Commandments of Direct Marketing #2 – Your USP posted at Kevin Dawson’s Copywriting & Traffic, saying, “Value of Unique selling proposition”

Andy presents How To Avoid The Big Newbie Affiliate Trap posted at Personal Plug, saying, “One of the best ways to make an enormous amount of cash on the Internet is by selling your very own product. The reason it’s the best way is because every one that you sell, you will get 100% of the profits.”

Brad Trnavsky presents Can the best sales people become the best sales managers? – Sales Management 2.0 posted at Sales Management 2.0 – Featured Blog Posts, saying, “A great post with substancial comments about sales people and the transition to management. My linkedin URL is: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bradtrnavsky”

hank presents Dream More, Work Less posted at My Investing Blog.

Ian Richardson presents How to create and run an ezine for profit, Part 1 posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, “This is the first in a 3 part series of articles I have written on creating and running an ezine for profit.”

Ian Richardson presents How to create and run an ezine for profit, Part 2 posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, “This is part 2 of a three part series on how to create and run an ezine for profit.”

Anthony McCune presents The Reward For Being Loyal To Stan Bunting Is Not Getting Paid posted at The Lives and Times… of Anthony McCune.

Anthony McCune presents John’s View In New York City (Borough of Manhattan), New York, USA posted at What I See Out My Window.

Anthony McCune presents PRN PAIN posted at The Vanity Of It All.

Anthony McCune presents Multiple Strategies Are Incorporated To Deter Drunk Driving – Installment 4 Of 5 posted at Stark County, Ohio News And Views….

Cindy King presents Culture Changes How Brains Work posted at Cindy King, saying, “Businesses targeting broad international audiences with one website need to pay particular attention to the images and visual perceptions of their websites. And this is part of the reason why country-specific websites provide stronger marketing.”

Cindy King presents Review Your Product For More International Sales posted at Get International Clients.

Cindy King presents International Article Marketing posted at Cindy King, saying, “Visibility Is Not Marketing. The internet does provide an opportunity for international visibility. But people still try to have an international business without any business activities.”

Brian Terry presents 5 Red Hot Tips To Effective Forum Marketing posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, “You’re NOT allowed to advertise or market directly through your forum posts, this is seen as spamming the forums. It’s a “surefire” way to get banned from ever posting to them again. Here’s the secret to highly effective forum marketing…”

Ian Richardson presents 5 Ways to Make Your Website Sticky posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, “This is an excellent article on 5 effective ways to make your website sticky.”

Andy Birol presents A Small Business Owner’s Prayer For Obama posted at Birol’s Blog, saying, “A Small Business Owner’s Prayer for Obama”

Andy presents Network Marketing Business – Secret To Succeeding With A Small Business Opportunity posted at Personal Plug, saying, “There is a distinct difference in small business opportunities today and those of previous eras. What is it? Simply put, the internet. Today, small business opportunities on;line are more popular and pursued than those off line.”

greg Group presents A Social Media Blueprint for Your Business – Associated Content posted at Associated Content.

Wayne John presents One Simple Method to Keep Visitors on Your Site posted at Wayne John, saying, “One method I use to help keep visitors on my site is by creating my hyperlinks so they open a new window when they are clicked.”

Diana Freedman presents How to Makeover your Linkedin Profile posted at U Stand Out.

Kevin Dawson presents The Important Art of Slogan Writing posted at Kevin Dawson’s Copywriting & Traffic, saying, “The importance of a good slogan”

Anthony McCune presents Thinking Of Starting A Business? The Top 10 Tips posted at The Lives and Times… of Anthony McCune.

Bhupendra Khanal presents Entrepreneurs : Don’t Do an MBA posted at Analytics Bhupe, saying, “http://www.linkedin.com/in/khanalbhupendra”

Andy presents Seo And Website Design For Small Company posted at Personal Plug, saying, “Some people are too tired to do the thinking and will opt to go with the flow whatever is the trend, be it on fashion, sports and even with businesses without even thinking what it is for. Most businesses find themselves in the need of providing websites for their company and/ or products because everybody else does. If you are one of these people, you may now start knocking your head for a very expensive mistake of not knowing what you do.”

Diana Freedman presents Before Networking on LinkedIn, Makeover Your Profile posted at U Stand Out, saying, “LinkedIn is a powerful tool for networking if you know how to utilize its features. But before you do, it’s important to have a well-written profile that fully explains your work experience.”

Diana Freedman presents Building Your LinkedIn Network posted at U Stand Out, saying, “Once you write a strong LinkedIn profile, it’s time to start building your network. Start by inviting people you know, getting your link in the search engines, and getting quality recommendations. Then you’ll be ready to branch out into the vast LinkedIn networks.”

Wayne John presents Recursively populating a TreeView controls TreeNode collection posted at Wayne John, saying, “Every now and then you come across a scenario where a Treeview control is the best solution for presenting a hierarchical view of data. How do you populate the tree? A recursive routine is what you are looking for perhaps (at least, I haven’t run into any other tree scenario where a recursive routine was not used).”

Jeff Rose presents 401k Tips: What Not To Do posted at Jeff Rose, saying, “http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrosecfp”

Ralph Jean-Paul presents How To Become a People Person posted at Potential 2 Success, saying, ““All things being equal people will do business with people they like. All things not being equal, they still will. Learn to become a people person and become better in relationship, leadership, and influence in every part of business and life.””

Andy presents Seo Black Hat Marketing Techniques – Black Hat Is Back Increases Profit! posted at Personal Plug, saying, “If you are like most people who are feeling the cold crush of fear caused by the unrelenting financial catastrophes slinking around you right at every turn, then this may be the most important information that you will ever read.”

Raymond presents Credit Card Offers For People With Bad Credit Or Poor Credit History posted at Money Blue Book.

Brian Terry presents The Beginner’s Guide to Overnight Traffic | Big Marketing Secrets Blog posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, “I’d like to welcome you to The Beginner’s Guide to Overnight Traffic™ where I’m going to teach you “Seven Steps to Getting Massive Traffic Using Google™ AdWords™”.”

Kara-Leah presents Why writing a communications strategy matters – even for a yoga website posted at Prana Flow NZ, saying, “A website is a way to communicate, and if you’re running your own website you could benefit massively from writing a communications strategy for your site. Simply a plan of attack that articulates your key messages, audience and how you’re going to reach them, a strategy is something that anyone can write. Join communications professional K-L Grant of Prana Flow NZ as she leads by example and puts together a communications strategy for her yoga website.”

Janet Barclay presents How an Internet Marketing VA Can Support Your Social Networking Activities posted at From the Desk of Janet Barclay.

Wayne John presents Modifying Your Blogger Header The Blogger Way posted at Wayne John, saying, “A common thing you’ll find when you start blogging is that you’ll want to make changes to your template. If you use the Blogger blog system, it can be easy or extremely difficult depending upon what you want to do. This post will show you where to go to modify your header as well as some advice as to how to approach the issue of modifying your header image if you choose to do things yourself.”

Mark Montgomery presents Elements of a Good College Fit, Part One: Academics posted at Great College Advice, saying, “Finding the right college is like finding a good pair of shoes. You have to know what you need. You have to know what you like. And you have to shop around.”

Tushar presents A List of 100 Top Directories posted at TUSHARVICKKIE, saying, “Directories are an important way to obtain a valuable link back to a website. Directories are not maintained by software tools, or run by search engine spiders, but rather Human Editors, which makes them unique. Now continuing from the last post, here one can find the list of top 100 web directories. Here is the list of top 100 web directories.”

Wayne John presents Using Social Submitter to Promote Your Posts posted at Wayne John, saying, “With the number of social sites popping up each week, I’ve been pondering how one might start using these sites to help promote your own site without becoming buried by the sheer number of them.”

Wayne John presents Sorting Generic.List Items posted at Wayne John, saying, “Great example of sorting a Generic.List collection of objects and a class that can be reused in future projects to sort a collection of custom objects.”

Prashant K Shukla presents SEO and Meta Tags | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “SEO and Meta Tags – Meta Tags play significant role in SEO and if we take utmost care in building these tags, result would be the perfect optimization of our website.”

Prashant K Shukla presents Site Indexing – Great Eight Tips | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “Site Indexing – The most effective SEO technique is to index the pages of new website. There are lot of important issues, one should take care. We are providing a simple guide steps to help you in this regard.”

Prashant K Shukla presents Search Engines or Web Directories | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “After you have built a website and optimized it by tuning its meta tags to the best, it is the time to get it submitted to major search engines and directories. So, that your site gets indexed by the search engines and the directories. There are lot of confusions in submission to search engines and web directories.”

Brian Terry presents How To Profit Online Without Selling Or Referring? posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, “A big question about internet marketing is ”how can one make a significant amount of money without buying or selling or doing anything concerning referals, etc””

Robin Bal presents People Giving Up Pets As Economy Falters posted at Fortune Watch, saying, “Americans are giving up their dogs and cats to animal shelters in growing numbers as the emotional bonds between people and pets get tested by economic ones.”

Cindy King presents Christmas Buffling In Britain posted at Cindy King, saying, “An example of business waffling. This time it is in a Christmas setting.”

Get International Clients presents What Is International Multichannel Marketing? posted at Get International Clients, saying, “Are you seriously committed to developing your international markets?”

Wayne John presents Using Images For Your Social Links On Blogger Posts posted at Wayne John, saying, “You’ve more than likely seen images used as well as text links for social bookmark links on many different blogs and web sites. Using images for your social links will add a little more flair to your Blogger posts. Not only that, using images will save a little more space than the textual name of each service will, in most cases using images will also be more pleasing to the eyes.”

LinkedIn and/or Business

Susan Tatum presents Nine Ways to Know It’s Time to Expand Your Marketing | Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Nara presents Surviving Marital Infidelity – Signs of Infidelity » Emotional Infidelity – Emotional Infidelity: A Love Affair Or Just Friends? posted at Surviving Infidelity, saying, “How to tell whether they are just friends or if it’s something more serious”

Ralph Jean-Paul presents Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions posted at Potential 2 Success, saying, ““”Start sticking to those New Year’s Resolutions by learning what resolutions really are, why some resolutions don’t work, and how to follow through on them.”"

Susan Tatum presents Making Marketing Happen – Are Baby Steps Better? | Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Jeff Rose presents Four Options With Your 401k When Changing Jobs posted at Jeff Rose, saying, “http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrosecfp”

Susan Tatum presents Simplify Your Marketing – Take Aim | Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Janet Barclay presents Planning for 2009 posted at From the Desk of Janet Barclay.

Raymond presents MonaVie Acai Berry Juice Scam posted at Money Blue Book.

Jeff Rose presents Where Theres A Will, Theres A Way posted at Jeff Rose, saying, “www.linkedin.com/jeffrosecfp”

Jeff Rose presents How Much Should Retirees Save For Health Care? posted at Jeff Rose, saying, “www.linkedin.com/jeffrosecfp”

Vickie Sloderbeck presents A Day in the Life of Your Husband posted at Joyful Journey Productions, saying, “LinkedIn profile address: http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_side_pro”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of linkedin bloggers using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Technorati tags: linkedin bloggers, blog carnival.

Our next entries in the LinkedIn Blog Carnival are being hosted at http://createathrivingbusiness.com for December.  Thank you Jenn.

I’m looking for hosts for 2009 – if you are with LinkedIn and a Blogger, then I’d love to hear from you either here in comments or via our contact form. You’ll need to include the address of the blog that you’ll be using for hosting.

Thanks, Kathie

If you are a member of LinkedIn and you also blog, then you are eligible to join the LinkedIn Bloggers Carnival. We publish posts on a monthly basis and I’m hosting the October edition.  You’ll find the submission link to the right of this blog (and it doesn’t always show the current date but I don’t know why) but if you are reading this via email subscription or RSS then you just need to go http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_3647.html.  The next edition is due to be published October 6th.

Topic can be about LinkedIn or relate to business.   Entries are screened and those hosting editions on their sites have the right to remove any posts they consider not appropriate for posting.

We have hosts till the end of this year but if you’d like to host in 2009, then please indicate below and include your LinkedIn profile address please. If we get enough hosts we may increase the editions to run fortnightly (2 weekly) rather than monthly.

blog carnival, LinkedIn, blogging

The next edition of the carnival! Thank you to everyone who has participated. If you would like to host an edition, please do let me know – I don’t get many people putting their hands up. Simple process, simply copy and paste all the entries that have been submitted, check them for formatting and publish them – I even help you by giving you the full list so you don’t have to do them individually.

For our visitors and readers, please do visit those posts that interest you and leave comments for their authors – all authors love to know they have readers!

We have a long list this month – so good to see!

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Brad Trnavsky presents Leadership Vs. Management – Sales Management 2.0 posted at Sales Management 2.0 – Featured Blog Posts, saying, “A short article about leadership and management and a brief introduction to the book 360 Degree Leadership by John Maxwell.”

Lorraine Pirihi presents Who’s managing in your business? posted at The Productivity Post.

Kathie Thomas presents What makes a website truly global? posted at soho-life.com.

Edith presents Six PR Tips from Startup Bootcamp San Francsico 2008 posted at San Francisco Bay Area Small Business Community That Connects You With Entrepreneurs Around You.

Prashant K Shukla presents Role of Meta Title Tag in SEO | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “Meta tags are the blocks which contain information about the contents of your web page and they exist into the head area of your web page. They are basically meant to communicate with the search engine. The Meta Keywords Tag and Meta Description Tag also need to be taken care of and optimized equally in addition to that of Meta Title Tag to secure a place at the top of the search engines and in convincing a search engine that your site’s contents are more relevant than that of your competitor’s.”

Prashant K Shukla presents Site Indexing – Great Eight Tips | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “Site Indexing – The most effective SEO technique is to index the pages of new website. There are lot of important issues, one should take care. We are providing a simple guide steps to help you in this regard.”

Prashant K Shukla presents Search Engines or Web Directories | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “Submitting your site to major search engines and good rank directories help increasing the traffic and good placement in SERP.”

Heather Johnson presents Convincing a Recruiter to Use Web 2.0: Guest Post by Heather Johnson posted at Human Race Horses: Racing to HR 2.0.

Anya Portnik presents ATSCo (Association of Technology Staffing Companies) Members Conference, June 5th 2008 posted at Gavin Ingham.

Mark Montgomery presents College Applications: They Can Make You Sick posted at Great College Advice, saying, “The college application process can be stressful–so stressful that i can make kids physically ill. To say nothing of the parents!!”

Mark Montgomery presents How Good are Advanced Placement (AP) Courses? Are They Worth Taking? posted at Great College Advice.

Prashant K Shukla presents SEO and Meta Tags | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “SEO and Meta Tags – Meta Tags play significant role in SEO and if we take utmost care in building these tags, result would be the perfect optimization of our website.”

Amanda Moore presents 6 Things That Will Make Me Leave Your Blog posted at VagabondetteVA, saying, “If your blog isn’t reader friendly, they won’t stick around – and they won’t come back.”

Matt DiChiara presents Lone Male Roommate Examines Prior Judgments posted at MyNewPlace Blog, saying, “thanks and have a good weekend!”

Isabella Mori presents quickie: what’s a friend? posted at change therapy, saying, “this is an article inspired by the practice in social media to call people “friends” when they are not as close as one would normally think a friend to be. in the comments you will also notice a reference to the use of “friend” in LinkedIn.”

Mark Montgomery presents School?s Out! Top 10 Summertime Tips for College Admission posted at Great College Advice, saying, “Savvy parents–and students–know that summertime is a great time to stay ahead of the curve with the college admissions process. These tips will help you keep life sane and fun–and increase chances for admission.”

Michael. presents Beauty and the Beast: How Attractiveness Affects Your Life posted at A Law Student and Young Lawyer Blog – Law Vibe.

Business or LinkedIn related

Susan Tatum presents What technology buyers don’t want to see on your website posted at TechnoBuzz.

Karl Goldfield presents Training Part 1: Lead Generation – Talented Prospectors | The Sales Coach, The Sales Blog posted at Karl Goldfield.

Erek Ostrowski presents Leadership for Unprecedented Results posted at Verve Coaching, saying, “As leaders, our job is to provide an environment that challenges people with opportunities to be productive and capable, so that they succeed in their jobs and produce results.”

Susan Tatum presents You Have Multiple “Homepages”. Time to Fix Them All. posted at TechnoBuzz.

Karl Goldfield presents Training Part 1: Gaining Commitment – The forgotten objective | The Sales Coach, The Sales Blog posted at Karl Goldfield.

Stefan Töpfer presents THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG » Blog Archive » Small Business Lists – Start-Up on a Shoestring posted at The Small Business Blog, saying, “A selection of business ideas that can be started with almost zero capital”

John Oh presents Influencer Marketing: Enterprise Model posted at Marketing Joint, saying, “Influencer Marketing: Enterprise Model What exactly is Influencer Marketing? And, why is Influencer Marketing so important? In this post, I’m going to lay out some viewpoints and “answers” using a couple charts I slapped together to illustrate a few key concepts.”

Colleen M. Johnson presents Blogger Brainstorming posted at cmjoffice.com Blog, saying, “Got blogger block? Ten tips for blog writing.”

Amanda Moore presents How My Passion is Changing My Life posted at VagabondetteVA, saying, “In a follow-up to a Dosh Dosh post about how having a passion for your business can make it more successful.”

Ed Rivis presents Million Dollar Marketing Secrets. posted at Ed Rivis.

Susan Tatum presents What Web Analytics Can Tell You about Traffic Sources posted at TechnoBuzz.

Kathleen Gage presents Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions: Get the most out of your blogging efforts! FREE report tells you how posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions, saying, “What used to be viewed by many as a passing fad has now become a necessary aspect of doing business on the Internet. Blogging has become a necessary aspect of any solid online marketing strategy. However, even though millions of people are blogging, the majority don’t know how to optimize their blogging efforts. Although some people view blogging as a novelty or a “someday I’ll get around to it” smart entrepreneurs understand they have to get into the game of blogging sooner than later. When done correctly, blogging can have an incredible impact on your market position.”

Patrick Schwerdtfeger presents Effective Blogging Process posted at Tactical Execution, saying, “Most people blog ineffecitively. This post offers readers a specific process to follow each time they write a new post.”

Webmaster_1 presents 5 Reasons Why Blogging Is Beneficial posted at The Entrepreneurs Online Magazine, saying, “An article on why blogging is beneficial to any internet marketer”

Amanda Moore presents 106 Organizations That Are Changing the World – Are you helping? posted at VagabondetteVA.

Susan Tatum presents Technology Marketing Fundamentals. Your Best Competitive Advantage. posted at TechnoBuzz.

John W. Furst presents Aweber – A Marketing Lesson And Smart Pricing posted at E-Biz Booster Blog, saying, “Are you freaking out? One of the popular Email Marketing Tools provider — AWeber — has new features and new prices. What’s in it for you?”

Elizabeth Harrin presents SmartDraw 2008: planning the garden posted at A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects, saying, “I’m a LinkedIn project manager blogger.”

Paula Gregorowicz presents Why Web Standards Matter posted at Paula G. Web Design.

Raymond presents How To Make Money From Balance Transfer Credit Cards posted at Money Blue Book.

Raymond presents How To Get Your Free FICO Credit Score posted at Money Blue Book.

Raymond presents Best Business Credit Card For Your Small Business posted at Money Blue Book.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of linkedin bloggers using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Technorati tags: linkedin bloggers, blog carnival.

It was slightly delayed as the Blog Carnival database was down over the weekend but it’s now back up and so is our latest carnival.

http://www.paulagwebdesign.com/blog/2008/05/05/linkedin-bloggers-may-5-2008-carnival-edition/   Please do visit each post, leave comments and make yourself known to each other!

Submit your blog article to the next edition of linkedin bloggers using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

The next edition will be hosted by SOHO-Life.com on June 2nd. If you would like to host a future edition, please do make yourself known at the Blog Carnival!

Don’t forget we have the next LinkedIn Blog carnival coming up very soon – next week in fact. So if you want to participate, you’ll find the link for submission on the right-hand of this blog.

If you’ve already submitted a post you might like to consider hosting a future carnival – we have hosts for April and May so far. At this stage we’re doing monthly but if the interest picks up and the number of hosts, we can increase that.

And you can also install the widget on your own blog as well!

Welcome to the March 3, 2008 edition of LinkedIn Bloggers. I hope that this will be the first (second) of many. We did an initial carnival last October but it would be good to see this happen on a monthly basis. Criteria: posts should relate to business or LinkedIn, or both. I know there are a lot of LinkedIn members who blog, so it would be good to see more participate.

If you would like to host a carnival one month, please contact me via the comments form with your name and blog address so I can let you know what’s involved and set a date for you. Submissions for future editions can be submitted at the bottom of this post.

Kevin Sasser writes about a bake off at The Back Button; The Sales Wars posted at The Sales Wars.

Olga Kellen shares what she has learnt about LinkedIn at Blogging, Self-Publishing and LinkedIn posted at How I started on LinkedIn.

Paula Gregorowicz explains why you should blog in Should I Start a Blog? posted at Paula G. Web Design. Great colours on her blog!

Life. Money. Development. presents Diet Tips for Preventing High Cholesterol Levels posted at Life. Money. Development., saying, “A neat collection of diet tips for keeping cholesterol in recommended levels.”

Warren Wong gives some handy hints and tips on How To Avoid Google’s Duplicate Content Penalty (For Bloggers) posted at Personal Development for INTJs, saying, “Things you should know to avoid duplicate content penalities on your blog and get good search engine rankings.”

Raymond writes about those very challenges many of us face at Trading Hours For Dollars | Money Blue Book posted at Money Blue Book.

Jean Mosher tells how to Blog for Fun and Profit « Always in Motion posted at Always in Motion.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of linkedin bloggers using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Welcome to the January 2, 2008 edition of Carnival of Australia.

I’m privileged to be hosting the very first of this series for 2008. Welcome and I hope you enjoy the articles linked below – please do visit them all and I encourage you to comment when led to do so.

In the meantime, do you set New Year’s Resolutions? I found that often a resolution wouldn’t have enough meaning for me and would get forgotten within a short space of time. But some years ago I decided to start setting goals for the year early each January – part of ensuring my business plan would get reviewed and actioned.

Last January (2007) I set aside a day to think about what I wanted to do and to set goals that met both personal and business needs in my life. I wrote them out by hand and then set them up in PowerPoint. The goals are printed in colour and large type, with pictures that reflect the goals, then laminated and stuck on my office wall above my computer monitor so they are visible on a daily basis. This helps me keep on track and I usually meet at least 75% of the goals each year. If you have nothing to aim for, that is often what you’ll achieve – nothing, or perhaps you might achieve something by accident. I prefer to plan and love that I can look back and feel satisfaction for it.

New Year’s Resolutions frequently don’t have a date set for achievement and often are not documented – they’re just something that are in your mind. So, to have your goals clear in your mind you need also to have them somewhere where you can see them daily. There will always be things that come along to distract you every single day but if you know where you are heading, you will get there, even if you take a few detours along the way.

So, are you going to have any New Year’s resolutions for 2008 or will you be visible setting goals for action?

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Micellaneous Mum presents Appreciating Australian Poetry – Gwen Harwood posted at Miscellaneous Adventures of an Aussie Mum, saying, “A apprecation of a poem about motherhood from a famous Australian poet.”

Culture

Dr Martin W. Russell presents Self Help For Sleeping Pills – The Campaign posted at Dr Martin W. Russell, saying, “My hope for the world is that this campaign can make a real difference, not just in Australia but throughout the world.”

Current Affairs

D Robinson presents Bah Humbug, Centrelink Cuts Off the Homeless posted at Australian Women Online, saying, “What makes this article even more interesting is the response posted by the General Manager of Centrelink. Let’s hope the future of our nation’s homeless is much brighter in 2008.”

Barry Pittard presents Timothy Conway Ph.D – On The Hislop Letters posted at Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba, India’s Most Famous Guru, saying, “It is always touching when an individual of renowned integrity speaks the facts calmly even in the case of extreme attack. The US religious scholar Timothy Conway Ph.D has done that in this case. He has released (December 2007) his clarification of points raised about very indicting letters that were circulated (scans link is listed) to peak leaders of the US Sathya Sai Organization by former head, the late Dr John Hislop. Timothy Conway discovered the letters and, in all conscience, released them. The cover up by core leaders of Sai Baba is no less the case in Australia and other countries, from which the Sai Baba cult send to the Sathya Sai Central Trust in India, where the opulence Sai Baba has created to his self-glorification as God on earth is incredible”

Family

Carole Fogarty presents Adjust your yin yang time clock and bring a delightful energetic flow back into your day: posted at THE HEALTHY LIVING LOUNGE.

Sue presents BRAvo for the sisterhood of the travelling bra on Christmas Day posted at Spasmodic Dysphonia, saying, “BRAving the heat on Christmas Day, we shared together as a family and wore our bras on the outside of our shirts?????? All in the name of fun and social understanding, our family hosted, Sheila from the Sisterhood of the Travelling bra. She was a titillating guest and kept abreast of the prawns and pavlova.”

jen presents Semantically driven: blogging about blogging, parenting and living in Australia. » And Christmas was pretty good posted at Semantically driven, saying, “Haven’t done my new beginnings post yet but here’s one about Christmas day.”

Helping a mate

Craig Harper presents The Muffin-Top Pioneer. posted at Renovate your life with Craig, saying, “Everyday you and I have the opportunity to notice the un-noticed, love the un-loved, hug the un-hugged and to encourage and support those who are emotionally starving in a sea of humanity. We have the opportunity to make an incredible difference with a few simple words and a few minutes of our time.”

Suzie Cheel presents The Spirit of Christmas – A Community Celebration posted at The Abundance Highway, saying, “Volunteering on Christmas Day was a new and rewarding experience. It also makes you realise the blessings you have in your life and give thanks more often.”

History

Jayne presents Trivial History December 21 posted at Our Great Southern Land, saying, “It’s a daily thing I do for Aussie history, apologies if it’s not suitable for the carnival, well done with the carnival even if mine isn’t suitable.”

Indigenous issues

While I was out Stumbling, I found presents Us Taken-Away Kids posted at The Body Shop Australia’s Values & Campaigns Blog, saying, “Another great post from The Body Shop Australia Values and Campaigns blog. This one offers a positive review of “Us Taken-Away Kids”, a magazine commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the ‘Bringing them home’ report. Thanks The Body Shop Australia. I like your blog very much.”

Mates

chris chynoweth presents DropKick MonKey » Blog Archive » vb beer – warnie (australia) posted at DropKick MonKey.

Politics

Gavin R. Putland presents TaxChoices for home buyers posted at Gavonomics.

Duncan Macleod presents Kevin Rudd and Labor Vision for Australia posted at Duncan’s Political Ads, saying, “This is a new blog, launched on Christmas Day, focusing on political advertising, part of the Duncans.tv suite of media blogs.”

Technology

Megt presents Drumroll Please – Introducing the Aussie Bloggers Community Project posted at Dipping into the Blogpond, saying, “Introducing a forum for Aussie Bloggers”

Walkabout

Megan Bayliss presents Before and after end of / new year clean up fun posted at Imaginif…, saying, “During a clean up (we’ve moved, not because I like cleaning) I came upon a couple of old cards. The juxtaposition of the old and the new, the past and the future, the public and the private, got me thinking about what lessons I may well have to learn for this new year to be different to the rest of my years. I think it may be to keep my ascorbic and feminist sense of humour in check!!! What do you think?”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of australia using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Welcome to the October 10, 2007 edition of carnival of australia.

I’m delighted to be the host for this edition of Carnival of Australia! I hope you enjoy the posts here.

Micellaneous Mum presents Showtime – fun and sore stomachs for all posted at Miscellanous Adventures of an Aussie Mum, saying, “Who doesn’t love their local show?!”

Theodore Pappas presents Diana & the Celebrity Culture We Enjoy posted at Britannica Blog, saying, “Prominent Australian scholar Graeme Turner (University of Queensland) uses the hook of the recent 10-year anniversary of the death of Princess Di to discuss our cultural obsession with celebrities and what this obsession really means. Fascinating.”

Albert Foong presents The Flower of Love posted at Urban Monk.

Mad goat lady presents A what? posted at Mad Goat Lady.

Animals

Kirky presents Telstra BigBlog - posted at Kirkys Krafts & Chit Chat.

Business

Steve Gray presents Red hot testimonials, with ease. posted at Free Business Tips.

Monika Mundell presents Tutorial – Group Writing Project posted at TheWritersManifestoBlog, saying, “This particular entry is a competition that runs until the 20th of this month. Prize money is up for grabs by other bloggers for writing a tutorial.”

Culture

Cellobella presents Ugg Boot Miracle posted at SultanaBlog, saying, “Can there be anything more Australian than the humble ugg boot? But what happens if your ugg boot splits? Are you destined to live forever with cold tootsies – or could a simple and cheap solution be lurking in your underwear drawer…”

Duncan Macleod presents NAB Climb Every Mountain posted at Duncan’s TV Ad Land, saying, “NAB launched Climb Every Mountain, a new classic Australian TV ad, during the AFL Grand Final.”

Craig Harper presents The Power of an Idea. posted at Renovate your life with Craig, saying, “”Who we are, how we are and what our life becomes, is not pre-determined; it’s a choice.” Fate, schmate. Destiny, schmestiny. Both the refuge of the weak.”

Suzie Cheel presents Motivational Sayings: Take Your Passion… posted at The Abundance Highway, saying, “The quote “Take your passion and make it happen”, is from the song “What a feeling”, sung Irena Cara in the movie Flashdance. Come visit and dance.”

Current Affairs

swollenpickles presents Meg White sex tape fake yet still “news” posted at Swollen Pickles, saying, “Well here’s some sloppy reporting from the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), with the SMH website reporting that Meg White, “drummer” of the White Stripes, was the ’star’ of the latest celebrity sex video doing the rounds. As of writing this, the SMH “Meg White sex video claim” story is the second most viewed story on the SMH website. The story was first published on the SMH site at 12.30pm on the 26 September. The article signs off with: “Representatives for the band are yet to confirm or deny the video is genuine.” I have to say, it’s an attention grabbing story, I guess the only problem is that it’s not all that accurate.”

Gavin R. Putland presents A new way to beat traffic fines posted at Bush Lawyer.

Gavin R. Putland presents Cap-and-trade blog licensing posted at Gavonomics.

Hugh Manatee presents Newsworthiness – Beyonce, racism, or World War? posted at typing is not activism…., saying, “What’s a bit of harsh racial hatred from a warmongering ally anyway? I’m more worried about Beyonce cancelling her tour and Kevin cashing out his credibility.”

Leigh presents October is Breast Cancer Month-How you can help posted at All for Women.

Chris Lucas presents Australia and climate change: The official story posted at planet doom?, saying, “climate change and politics in Australia”

Family

Carole Fogarty presents Emotional care with Australian bush flower essences: posted at THE HEALTHY LIVING LOUNGE, saying, “Australian bush flower essences are a wonderful addition to your first aid tool box.”

Megan Bayliss presents Save the Children: The difference between sympathy and empathy. posted at Imaginif…, saying, “Are Aussies empathetic or sympathetic to the plight of those around us (I am down right shocked by the state in Burma!)? Before you read the difference between sympathy and empathy, have a think about what your definition of each is.”

Food

John Mundell presents Is the Catering Industry in Crisis? posted at Top Chef John Mundell, saying, “food, photos, reviews, recipes, and more can be found here, written by a professional chef.”

Helping a mate

Sue presents Dystonia support group posted at Spasmodic Dysphonia, saying, “Do you live in Far North Queensland? Do you suffer from the many forms of Dystonia? We have started a support group and are active in educating the medical professionals and wider community about this dreadful disease.”

Andrew Boyd presents Boobiethon: Topless bloggers for a good cause posted at Facibus On Blogging, saying, “Boobiethon sees women (and men) exposing their breasts for a good cause – breast cancer support and research.”

Mates

Andrew Boyd presents Interview with Snoskred of Life in the Country posted at On Blogging Australia, saying, “Interview with Snoskred of Life in the Country”

Music

DigitalBurn presents How to convert vinyl LPs to CD (WAV or MP3) posted at Electronic Music Production | DigitalBurn.org, saying, “If you’ve got a stack of vinyl LP’s lying around and have been putting off transferring them to CD because you believe that it’s either too hard, or too expensive, then it’s time to think again!”

Technology

John Lampard presents Fluster posted at disassociated.com.

jen presents Web Directions South 2007 – the last word posted at Semantically driven, saying, “If you wanted to get along to Web Directions South, but couldn’t this might tide you over.”

Des Walsh presents blogoz – Australian Blogging Conference Roundup posted at deswalsh.com, saying, “One week on from the Australian Blogging Conference held in Brisbane on Sept 28, Des Walsh, one of the discussion leaders provides a roundup of blog posts about the conference.”

Travel

Alex Garcia presents Cycling in Brisbane posted at Life in Brisbane – Queensland – Australia, saying, “Brisbane is a cyclist’s paradise”

Walkabout

Laurie Joyce presents You know you’re really in trouble when… posted at Laurie Joyce.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of australia using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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There are a number of LinkedIn Bloggers out there and I thought it would be good to showcase them in one place. So enter the LinkedIn Blog Carnival. Submissions will be accepted up to 15th every month and then posted on the 17th by the hosting blog. I welcome your involvement!

Just some simple ground rules:

All topics are welcome from LinkedIn members who blog. NO adult content, or abusive and racist comments. One submission per site please. If you keep two or three sites, you can submit one article from each. Topic MUST relate to networking, blogging or the use of LinkedIn.

Submission time: 15th each month Australian time.

Submit your article here.