A large group of Linkers were present at Digital Hollywood’s Media Summit event in NYC March 12-13, 2008. The conference had a great turn out and terrific keynotes from folks like Bob Iger of Walt Disney. LinkedIn’s VP of Marketing, Patrick Crane, spoke on a panel about “Social Media, UGM, Web Applications and Advertising: Monetizing the Interactive Experience.” During the show Patrick was interviewed by Pop17, an Internet TV show. See video below.

This event was the first time that we brought our LinkedIn kiosks with us to an event. The kiosks enabled Linkers to show conference attendees how to sign up for an account, improve their profiles and how to add new contacts that they just met at the conference to their profiles. Media Summit also did some really cool stuff like including a LinkedIn logo next to speakers that have LinkedIn profiles (so you could find out more information about the speaker before/after the event and even see how many degrees away from the speakers you are or if you have any connections in common). The LinkedIn logos on the site were hyperlinked, so you got taken right to the speaker’s profile page without having to do a search.

Most importantly, the event was a great opportunity for us to mingle with LinkedIn users and hear their thoughts on what they love and look forward to seeing on Linked In. The trip to NYC wasn’t all work and no play though. It was also a wonderful way for some of our Mountain View-based employees to catch up with the NYC-based crew.

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Upcoming events that LinkedIn plans on attending this year include: ASCAP’s “I Create Music” Expo in Los Angeles, April 10-12th, The Digital Hollywood Conference in Los Angeles, May 5-8th and The Warrillow Summit 2008 in Las Vegas May 12-14th. Hopefully we’ll catch up with you there!