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Once a month, we set aside a Friday for employees to focus on investing in themselves and their community. It’s a day to spend time outside their daily task list. Check out other InDay posts here. – Ed. 

LinkedIn’s Health Fair and Olympics were part of September’s inDay, a day each month where LinkedIn employees take a break from their typical work and give back to themselves and others. While some employees competed outdoors, others gathered inside to share their visions of how LinkedIn for Good will grow and develop over the next 3-5 years.

On Monday, President Obama is coming to Silicon Valley to meet with LinkedIn members and employees in a town hall about jobs and the economy. And because this event is designed for you, our members, we wanted to share three things you can do around the event:

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1. You can participate.

Next week, LinkedIn is honored to be welcoming the President of the United States, Barack Obama, to a town hall on the subject of job creation and putting America back to work.

During the past several months, the national conversation has been increasingly focused on the state of the U.S. economy.  This town hall is an invitation from the White House to people from across the country for an open exchange on one of our most pressing objectives as a nation: the creation of jobs and economic opportunity. 

I recently shared my thoughts on the subject; specifically, the widening gap between talent and opportunity, and what we as a country can do to help fill the 3.2 million jobs currently available in the U.S.  I can’t think of a better way to expand that conversation than by opening it up for participation to millions of individuals interested in helping to solve our unemployment challenges.

This is a part of our continuing series on engineering and analytics at LinkedIn. If this isn’t your cup of Java, check back tomorrow for regular LinkedIn programming. Else, check out our Engineering Blog. - Ed.

Sharing knowledge is part of our core culture at LinkedIn, whether it’s through hackdays or contributions to open-source projects. We actively participate in academic conferences, such as KDD, SIGIR, and WWW, and industry conferences such as OSCON and Strata.