Too Lijit, Too Lijit To Quit

2008 September 16
by Grace Boyle

Drum roll please…yesterday I started my job at Lijit .

Lijit is a hot start-up in downtown Boulder, Colorado that offers a free service to publishers (mostly bloggers). This is how is works: We offer a search-powered web application that allows readers to access all of the publishers’ online social media content (ie: Flickr, Facebook, Delicious, Twitter, your blog, etc.) We also include your extended trusted network in this search. This means when someone does a search, they will get results from your blog, all your online content, and the content of your network. It’s a much more personalized and relevant search component. If people are coming back to your blog because they trust what you’re writing, they will also trust what you’re bookmarking and writing about in the wild world of the WWW.

I’m doing Business Development and personally reaching out to Bloggers, and segmenting who we’re forging new relationships with. I love the environment, the people are great, it’s a progressive start-up, and right now at my desk, I have a view of the mountains and downtown Boulder!

Regarding landing the job, as I talk with Career Services at Champlain, I say network, network, and then lots of research. I didn’t even know they were specifically hiring, but then the fit for Business Development ended up being just right. In the morning I met with Micah Baldwin, VP of Business Development to chat about the ‘local market’ and see if he knew of any employment opportunities. It turned into an impromptu interview with the COO, Walter, and that same day (Friday the 12th), I was hired, and Monday the 15th I began work.

Here’s an office tour of our downtown digs. This was a little while ago, so there are recent renovations and new decorations but you get the idea. Tara, one of my colleagues in the Biz. Dev. team (her title is Community Catalyst) is the wonderful hostess. Enjoy!

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Any questions? E-mail me here: gboyle@lijit.com

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  • Grateful Web

    Hey Grace,

    Publishers Union of Bloggers currently advise Publishers hold off installing any Lijit Software on their blogs pending both Lijit’s promised upcoming transparency from Lijit concerning revenue and Lijit’s current ‘terms of use’ which gives Lijit free reign concerning use of your content once our Publishers install Lijit Software into their blog.

    Any thoughts on these critical issues for Pub’s, pass it on, all appreciate it.

    Barney
    Founder, P.U.B.

  • Grace Boyle

    Barney,

    I take my comment space seriously, as my readers would be posting relevant information and remarks to what I’m writing and talking about.

    Lijit has addressed this issue and specific comment here: http://www.lijit.com/blog/2008/09/22/statements-regarding-pub-and-barney-moran/

    Thank you.

  • http://siva-scribes.blogspot.com/ Siva

    When i was checking out Lijit site, the first thing came to my mind was how come this business has any potential? Because i wonder Blogging is mostly public and people would like to keep it public with minimal private content. Other social networking sites work on privacy. How come people will signup to Lijit to link everything to show all in a simple search to strangers? My functional understanding may be wrong, you could explain a bit. :)

  • http://www.smallhandsbigideas.blogspot.com Grace Boyle

    @Siva Wow, it looks like you've done a lot of commenting on my blog recently. Thanks for all your thoughts.

    As for Lijit, we do have potential and that would probably be seen by many top bloggers around the world that are using us, and over 10,000 blogs and websites currently using Lijit. To your point, anything on the web is public. So why not bring it all together in a custom search, built around all of your content? That is what Lijit does. Plus we provide stats around your search and traffic and monetize your search.

    A lot of people have a YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, etc. account but their readers on their blog can't find that information. If you search for “Boulder” on my blog with Lijit, you will see tweets I wrote about Boulder, pictures and videos I have about Boulder and also my blog posts. It brings everything together, which helps my readers discover content. Hope that helps explain :) You should check it out. Its easy and free.

  • http://www.smallhandsbigideas.blogspot.com Grace Boyle

    @Siva Wow, it looks like you've done a lot of commenting on my blog recently. Thanks for all your thoughts.

    As for Lijit, we do have potential and that would probably be seen by many top bloggers around the world that are using us, and over 10,000 blogs and websites currently using Lijit. To your point, anything on the web is public. So why not bring it all together in a custom search, built around all of your content? That is what Lijit does. Plus we provide stats around your search and traffic and monetize your search.

    A lot of people have a YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, etc. account but their readers on their blog can't find that information. If you search for “Boulder” on my blog with Lijit, you will see tweets I wrote about Boulder, pictures and videos I have about Boulder and also my blog posts. It brings everything together, which helps my readers discover content. Hope that helps explain :) You should check it out. Its easy and free.

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