Best free download for the summer: IBM’s new blogging report
This report is free. The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0, is a meaty guide to social media (great charts, tables, screenshots) that focuses on blogging in the public sector. The most intriguing case study is about how blogging is being…
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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman nails why you should care about blogs and social media
Thomas Friedman’s column this week in The New York Times, The Whole World Is Watching (registration required), makes the point that anyone you bump into – anywhere, anytime – might have a blog or a cell phone with a camera and a way to instantly, globally publish the…
read moreI’m reading Persephone Books… what’s on your summer reading list?
Persephone Books, from a marvelous publisher in London, are rediscovered 20th century novels written by neglected women authors. Not only are they wonderful reading, each one is published with a…
How to Build a Corporate Social Network Platform – Ad-Tech Beijing – China Blogging Tour
I'm on a panel with Des Walsh of Business and Blogging fame at Ad-Tech Beijing. This is a mega event being held at the China World Hotel, adjacent to the China World Trade Center. Des is moderating…
What if your blogging lags because you’re busy with your First Life?
That’s what has happened to me lately. I’ve been busy with clients, traveling for work, traveling a bit for pleasure and just generally… busy in my First (non-virtual) Life.
Although I must…
read moreBlog coaching with author and consultant Scott Eblin – phone
More blog coaching (writing, strategy, etc.) with author and consultant Scott Eblin. Check out his new blog.
Corporate Blogging discussion – Georgetown University, Washington DC
Presentation with Pat Cleary of ShopFloor.org blogging fame. Pat is now with Fleishman-Hillard in Washington DC. Learn more about Georgetown's Master of Professional Studies Programs in PR and Journalism.
read moreWorkshop on social media for Eli Lilly and Co. – Indianapolis
Created and ran an in-house workshop explaining social media (blogging, wikis, etc.) for Eli Lilly and Co. at headquarters in Indianapolis.
Keynote for in-house event at Eli Lilly and Co. – Indianapolis
[Updated Nov. 2011] Keynoted an innovative in-house event on social media at Eli Lilly headquarters in Indianapolis. Had the chance to work with the amazing Kristin Eilenberg, then an intrapraneur at Lilly, now a healthcare consultant running Lodestone Logic. Also ran an…
Wyoming meeting – not available
Attending a meeting in Wyoming from Wednesday June 20th through Friday June 22nd.
read moreGlaxoSmithKline launches official corporate blog for alli weight loss product
A best practice adage about corporate blogging is that there’s gotta be an inside evangelist in order for the blog to work. Well GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare…
David Pogue cites Chris Heuer’s definition of social media
The New York Times’ David Pogue used Social Media Club co-founder Chris Heuer‘s definition of social media – and its importance – in his keynote at Bulldog Reporter’s Media Relations Summit.
It’s…
read moreThe New York Times’ David Pogue says corporate blogs will become “a treasured tool in your tool ches
Speaking at Bulldog Reporter’s packed Media Relations Summit yesterday here in Washington, technology columnist David Pogue opined about blogs, podcasts, vlogs, digg, FlickR,…
More on email bankruptcy in The Guardian
After I wrote about a 96% full Gmail inbox, Fiona Walsh (online business editor of The Guardian) got in touch to ask if I’d write an article…
Order your copy of David Meerman Scott’s terrific “New Rules of Marketing & PR”
One of the things I like most about David Meerman Scott’s just-released book, The New Rules of Marketing & PR, is the fresh,…
What companies in China are blogging?
I’m writing (or trying to write) a short introduction for the Mandarin Chinese edition of The Corporate Blogging Book – to be published in a few months.
I’ve got some…
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My gmail inbox is 96% full…
Like so many others, I’ve long struggled with an overflowing email inbox. And a love/hate relationship with email. I wrote a column for ClickZ on Email Addiction over six years ago. It got…
Why you need a (multi-talented) blog editor
I talked about this today in my teleconference on How to Write an Effective Corporate Blog.
The challenge, as I see it, is to identify someone…
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