I picked up Jack Welch's new book, Winning, over the weekend and have thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a quick read. More important, it's written in blog-speak! I.e. in a surprisingly informal voice. Turns out Jack "talked" the book and, with a lot of help from wife Suzy (former editor of Harvard Business Review, etc. etc.), got it organized and down on paper. Here's an interesting  Q & A with Welch that explains the process.  Hmmm...

I picked up Jack Welch's new book, Winning, over the weekend and have thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a quick read. More important, it's written in blog-speak! I.e. in a surprisingly informal voice. Turns out Jack "talked" the book and, with a lot of help from wife Suzy (former editor of Harvard Business Review, etc. etc.), got it organized and down on paper. Here's an interesting  Q & A with Welch that explains the process.  Hmmm... could this be a new trend? Blog writing style seeping into mainstream publishing?? Perhaps another reason for CEOs and top execs to think about writing a blog. Press a key, do a few edits... and you've got a book.

Hurry on over to DoubleClick's (free) knowledge center. If you haven't already seen it, you can download the Q4 2004 Email Trend Report released in March 2005. Highlight: the average open rate for HTML emails continues to decline. It's now 32.6%. In addition, DoubleClick's director of research Rick Bruner (he also runs BusinessBlogConsulting.com) has just published a new 22-page report: The Decade in Online Advertising: 1994 - 2004. Hurry on over to DoubleClick's (free) knowledge center. If you haven't already seen it, you can download the Q4 2004 Email Trend Report released in March 2005. Highlight: the average open rate for HTML emails continues to decline. It's now 32.6%. In addition, DoubleClick's director of research Rick Bruner (he also runs BusinessBlogConsulting.com) has just published a new 22-page report: The Decade in Online Advertising: 1994 - 2004. Rick has posted his favorite chart from the report here. It's a trip through history, starting with Mosaic in 1993 and a flatline for number of Internet users and dollars of Internet ad revenue. By the end of 2004, Internet ad revenues were $9.6 billion and number of U.S. Internet users was about 170 million. Most notable stat: no medium since B&W television has penetrated U.S. households as fast…

Awesome... only word that describes my 22-year-old daughter who ran the 109th Boston Marathon today! Here she is [image at left substituted] at the 40K mark with just over a mile to go. Can't believe I got her in this photo! She was 30 minutes faster than we expected so we almost missed her when she ran by. 26 miles and 20,000 runners. It was a blast to watch. Congrats, A.!!

Awesome... only word that describes my 22-year-old daughter who ran the 109th Boston Marathon today! Here she is [image at left substituted] at the 40K mark with just over a mile to go. Can't believe I got her in this photo! She was 30 minutes faster than we expected so we almost missed her when she ran by. 26 miles and 20,000 runners. It was a blast to watch. Congrats, A.!!

Awesome... only word that describes my 22-year-old daughter Amanda who ran the 109th Boston Marathon today! Here she is at the 40K mark with just over a mile to go. Can't believe I got her in this photo! (Yes, that's "Amanda" written down her left arm.) She was 30 minutes faster than we expected so we almost missed her when she ran by. 26 miles and 20,000 runners. It was a blast to watch. Congrats, Amanda!!!



Awesome... only word that describes my 22-year-old daughter Amanda who ran the 109th Boston Marathon today! Here she is at the 40K mark with just over a mile to go. Can't believe I got her in this photo! (Yes, that's "Amanda" written down her left arm.) She was 30 minutes faster than we expected so we almost missed her when she ran by. 26 miles and 20,000 runners. It was a blast to watch. Congrats, Amanda!!!

Had a delightful dinner in Paris with Guillaume du Gardier.  He writes an intelligent blog, PR Thoughts, in French and English. He's even more impressive in person. He's established a niche for himself as the go-to guy in Paris for business blogging. He told us (all in French... !) that he invited SixApart.com's European head, Loïc Le Meur, to meet him for breakfast. By lunchtime, Guillaume's PR Planet had been hired to handle Six

Had a delightful dinner in Paris with Guillaume du Gardier.  He writes an intelligent blog, PR Thoughts, in French and English. He's even more impressive in person. He's established a niche for himself as the go-to guy in Paris for business blogging. He told us (all in French... !) that he invited SixApart.com's European head, Loïc Le Meur, to meet him for breakfast. By lunchtime, Guillaume's PR Planet had been hired to handle Six Apart's PR activities in Europe France. He's also one of the organizers of Les Blogs in Paris on April 25, 2005.

Here's Guillaume's write up of our dinner in a little brasserie on the Left Bank.

Thanks to the always clever Seth Godin for suggesting that I brand myself the Mona Lisa of Blogging.com. That struck a chord somehow. Maybe because (like Mona Lisa) you never know what I’m really thinking. Until I force myself to write it down. Aussi, parce que je parle assez bien le francais. Blogging has its rewards, you know. One is that the more you write, the better you write. Anyway, I was lucky enough to spend five days in