TweetI  must admit when I was first told about LinkedIn a few years ago, I didn’t quite get it. I set up my page and halfway finished my profile and went about my business. I linked to a few people who I worked with, but didn’t venture outside of my company or my realm. It was a “social network” I checked from time to time, and I mostly used it to look for candidates for positions I needed to fill when I was an HR manager. When I began planning the Show Me the Blog Conference last year, I turned to LinkedIn to get the word out—and believe it or not, it ended up bringing a lot of people to the conference. I added it to the event calendar and viola, people who were truly interested in social media and blogging in our area were able to know about the ...