Congratulations to Compendium Blogware (one of Blog Indiana’s first sponsors) for landing an additional $1.6 million in a third round of private funding. Compendium Blogware is Indiana’s only blog software company and has quickly been growing since starting in 2007.

As the company grows, they will be looking to expand their staff. Check out their employment opportunities if you are interested in working for a very forward-thinking Indiana company.

Thanks for sitting tight–I know it’s been a while since we updated. To put it simply, we’ve been busy making this conference awesome. As I’m sure many of you have been waiting, please sink your teeth into…

Updated Conference Session Details
Much more detail about the sessions are now available. You’ll notice we have slid everything into 3 categories (or tracks) of topics: basics, business, and general. The best part about these tracks is we are providing sessions for EVERYBODY and every level–from those who are new to blogging, to seasoned bloggers, as well as a strong track for business bloggers. Also, you are allowed to jump around on the tracks–you don’t have to stay in “Basics” all day if you don’t want. Inversely, a seasoned blogger may want to pick up a business or a basics session if it interests them. We’re flexible like that!

Check out the new session info and once you’ve stopped drooling–REGISTER! Space is limited and won’t last forever.

2008 Indiana Blogger Census
One of the major goals of Blog Indiana is to help build and promote the local community of bloggers in Indiana. To that end, we’ve decided to hold an annual Blogger Census to help get a handle on just what makes up our blogging community. Please, when you have 3 minutes, fill out the very short 2008 Indiana Blogger Census. You can pick what you want to keep private. We’ll be using the data collected to generate a fun report on the state of blogging in Indiana (we won’t use personally identifiable information).

Also, in order for the census to be meaningful for everyone, we need your help spreading the word. Please tell other bloggers about the census. We’ll be releasing some nifty “I took the census” badges for your blogs very soon (if blog bling is your thing).

Next Week… We’ll start posting speaker bios.