Prof. Bill Barnett on using tips from The Corporate Blogging Book to require MBA students to blog
Nothing warms an author’s heart more than having a fan approach with a dozen tabs sticking out of your book, so I was thrilled to meet Prof. Bill Barnett, faculty chair of Computer Information Systems at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
Bill was attending BlogWorld Expo…
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How to Write a Great Corporate Blog
Kudos to the Personal Branding Global Telesummit marking the 10th anniversary of the publication of Tom Peters' now iconic article: The Brand Called You. I led a session on How to Write…
Meeting blog designer Sarah Lewis for the first time
I’ve been working with Sarah Lewis of Blogging Expertise for about two years. She did the custom design for this blog and also designed my main site at debbieweil.com.…
USA Today pop culture blogger Whitney Matheson gets over 1,800 comments on a slow day
Flying out to Las Vegas from D.C. yesterday (to speak at BlogWorld Expo) I found myself sitting next to Whitney Matheson, USA Today’s (hugely popular) pop culture blogger. Whitney’s Pop Candy, if you’re not familiar with it, is the paper’s most popular blog.
She covers the “indie”…
read moreSimon Chen interviews me about corporate blogging at BlogWorld Expo
Thanks to Simon Chen of Melbourne-based Eight Black for this really nice video interview about corporate blogging and my book. Simon obviously uses much classier equipment than my idiot-proof Flip video recorder – which I love except for how long it takes to upload the videos to…
read moreDave Taylor opining at BlogWorld Expo: “most coolest and biggest set of bloggers in one place”
Here’s a quiet moment with BlogWorld Expo impresario and friend Dave Taylor, who was responsible for corralling the close to 200 (? is that right?) speakers to, er, get to the conference venue in the cavernous Las Vegas Convention Center and behave when they got there. He sent…
read moreTim Ferriss, author of the best-selling The 4-Hour Workweek, on “cultivating selective ignorance,” t
Interviewed new celeb author Timothy Ferriss (The 4-Hour Workweek) after he delivered his keynote at The New New Internet in Reston, VA last week. This guy is no…
Brad Feld at The New New Internet on corporate blogging and frictionless communication
The New New Internet held here in Reston, VA last week was a provocative day with some great speakers [one quibble: not enough women] including Tim Ferriss of 4-Hour…
Personal Branding Global Telesummit marks 10th anniversary of Tom Peters’ article: The Brand Called
Join me at the round-the-clock Personal Branding Global Telesummit on Thursday Nov. 8, 2007 to mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of Tom Peters’ now iconic article: The Brand Called You. This 12-hour teleconference is FREE and you can dial in…
What’s up for 2007: video, China, RSS for everyone, Second Life, unhooking from your computer, multi
How to Write a Great Business Blog
Join me at the round-the-clock Personal Branding Global Telesummit on Thursday Nov. 8, 2007 to mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of Tom Peters' now iconic article: The Brand Called You. This 12-hour teleconference…
Let me play with your iPhone, please…
Back home in D.C. and fighting a wicked case of jetlag. OK, you don’t have to feel sorry for me. My two-week trip to China (sponsored by Edelman) was mind-blowing. China is big, new and shiny. Or at least the China you see in Beijing and Shanghai. I…
read moreCorporate & CEO blogging at BlogWorld Expo – Las Vegas
Moderated panel on Corporate & CEO blogging at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas. Panel of heavyweight corporate bloggers included John Earnhardt of Cisco, Pete Johnson of HP, Jennifer Cisney of Kodak and Brian Lusk & …
Riding China’s expat roller coaster: two days vs. two weeks vs. two years
DATELINE: Shanghai (Oct. 22, 2007): I’ve been here in China, my first visit, for exactly one week. The roller coaster phenomenon goes something like this…
Two weeks in China and you think you can write a…
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Best links to learn about blogging, social media, Web 2.0 and technology in China
DATELINE: Beijing (Oct. 18, 2007): There is a small group of expats who speak fluent Mandarin and are extremely knowledgeable about social media, Web 2.0, etc. in China. Three of the best are…
Don’t use a (dry) press release to promote your CEO blog
Here’s an example of how NOT to promote a new CEO blog… with a press release issued before the public launch of the blog.
“The Nautique Insider, the marine industry’s first CEO blog, will be updated 2-4 times a month and be posted on the Correct Craft website, correctcraft.com.…
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21st Century PR: Executives and their Blogs – AmCham Shanghai
Presentation and discussion with esteemed fellow panelists William Moss (aka Image Thief) and China's WOM guru Sam Flemming. This is a lunchtime event for AmCham Shanghai members on Tuesday Oct. 23, 2007. More info here.
Watch Edelman Asia Pacific chief Alan Vandermolen's video interview with
I’m in China! Please follow the China Blogging Tour…
First (jetlagged) impressions: China is amazing! Shiny, new, modern, BIG. I”m in Beijing. It’s 6:30 AM Monday morning here; 6:30 PM Sunday back in the U.S. Follow the…
First look at the Mandarin Chinese edition of The Corporate Blogging Book
China Blogging Tour: first night in Beijing
Jetlagged… so won’t try to be witty. Just a huge thanks (xiè xiè) to Sabrina Dorr with Edelman Beijing for picking me up at the airport. A fun dinner tonight at the cool, crowded and noisy Jin Ding Xuan restaurant near the Lamah Temple.
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read moreQ. & A. with Fortune 500 CEO blogger Jonathan Schwartz
I always point to Jonathan Schwartz, the pony-tailed 41-year-old CEO of Sun Microsystems, as the best example of a high-profile CEO blogger, or any CEO or senior executive blogger for…