It was exactly 10 years ago today, Aug. 22, 2001, that I published my first article about business blogging. Whew. A lot of water under the bridge since then, including 9/11, which happened only a few weeks later. The Corporate Bloggging Book was released exactly five years ago, in August 2006. The updated digital edition (with a new preface, a new section on Twitter and much more) is now available on Amazon Kindle. In the past decade

This is not the first summer that I’ve taken a break from all digital, all the time. And I hope it won’t be the last. As I wrote last July, there’s something about a stretch away from DC that makes me feel like a kid at camp who wants to try new activities. This summer it was plein air painting. Above is the result of a class I took with painter Jill Hoy.

Please understand that I am not, nor do I consider myself, an artist - nor do I

I’ve known Michael Stelzner, the man behind the popular online magazine Social Media Examiner, for years. So I was delighted to get a review copy of his new book Launch: How to Quickly Propel Your Business Beyond the Competition which lays out the secrets of Social Media Examiner’s success. Full disclosure: he mentions me in the book. In fact, he reminded me of something I had completely forgotten. In December 2005 I published the

I posted a "gentle heads-up" on my Facebook page to announce that I’m slowly weeding out "friends" I don’t "know" or at least have some connection with. As I put it:  "I joined fb four years ago and initially said yes to every request. But now I want to limit my friends to those with whom I have some meaningful connection, either online or off."  Oops. Not clear enough. Three people I "know" immediately jumped on and commented that

From the blast from the past department, here is a re-post of something I wrote exactly 5 years ago about the presentation styles of three great speakers. Still as true as ever.

Great post over on Presentation Zen that includes links to comparison video clips of biz author/gurus Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki* and Tom Peters.

Good writing is important. But good platform skills are equally important. And they’re hard to hone. These guys

Loving my first visit to Sydney. The views of the harbor and the Opera House (also here, here and here) are continually stunning. I’m here with a group of really smart folks, including Jim Benson, Venessa Miemis, Mike Nelson, Jeremiah Owyang, Nigel Cameron, John Hagel, Ray Wang, John Smart, Andrew McAfee, Richard Binhammer, Jon Katzenbach, Sanjay Purohit, Mark Zawacki and many others, to speak at the AMPlify Festival, an innovation