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After tinkering around with LinkedIn for a bit it was exceptionally confusing to understand how to actually get your blog posts to show up on your user profile like below. This blog post explains how to do it in a step-by-step fashion with any type of blog.

Yesterday I had the opportunity to present on "Social Media and your Business" for the Hardin County Young Professionals in Kenton, Ohio. It was a great group and I am so excited to see how even small rural communities are embracing the usage of social media.

The economy sucks, the national unemployment rate is at 9.7% and in Ohio the numbers are even worse with about one in eight unemployed. Many of my friends have graduated college with a Bachelor's degree from a great university and are having troubles finding jobs. Friends and family are getting laid off and factories in my hometown are closing left and right. However, this is not going to be a blog that complains and cries about the situation. I'm an optimist, and this blog post is going to give you some tips to land a job in tough economic times.

1. Stay at home!

This is my list of free website analysis tools that will help you to see how you rank up! Bouncehost uses these as a sales tool as well as a metric for Drupal web development case studies. These tools measure social media presence, search engine friendliness, compliance, and a few other key metrics.

This blog post will show you how to properly setup the Ping.FM module on Drupal 6. The documentation is pretty poor and setup took me a bit of searching. The runaround was worth it thought because I had the opportunity to learn a little bit about how the Ping.FM API works.

Today Matt Nye, our lead programmer at Bouncehost suggested that I may be a masochist. I have heard the term before but never actually took the time to realize how much this term actually fits me.

mas·och·ism n.

1. The deriving of sexual gratification, or the tendency to derive sexual gratification, from being physically or emotionally abused.

2. The deriving of pleasure, or the tendency to derive pleasure, from being humiliated or mistreated, either by another or by oneself.

The following is a list of essential modules for creating a blog site using Drupal 6. I figured I would go ahead and create this since I couldn't find much when I did a Google search for "cool modules for a drupal blog".

The Basics

Reason 1 - You have nothing to lose

Upon entering the college life I had just finished a summer of working as a part-time pizza connoisseur. I was dropped off at college with my belongings and a wallet with my $250 limit credit card and $50 cash. After staying sober for four years in high school I was ready to begin my college life (just like in the movies).

Just as a precursor, this is something that has been on my mind for quite some time. At almost every networking event I visit and every presentation I do, this topic is mentioned. Everyone understands the position the economy is in right now and things just aren't looking real good, right? Right. But does that mean we should be worried, blame it on the government, and/or continue to bitch? Nope.