And the book winners are…
Congrats to Hilary Marsh with the National Association of REALTORS and Eric Hoffman with Park City Mountain Resort. (He's Interactive Marketing Manager. Now there's a dream job if you like to ski.) They were two of the 350-plus respondents to my Quick Survey on Blogging and Social Media…
read moreSony BMG UK embraces Vox as a blogging platform for would-be artists to submit their music
Forget those demo CDs. Wanna submit your album for review by Sony BMG Music Entertainment UK’s Columbia or RCA record labels? Set up a blog on Sony’s new Vox blogging platform and attach…
Q & A on launching a multi-author corporate blog
A business acquaintance wrote to ask me for some (free) advice about starting a multi-author blog. I decided to share my advice, thinking you might find it useful. Here are his questions, followed by my answers. He's the PR and public affairs manager for a membership and advocacy association. My…
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MACPA Lunch & Learn – Webinar
Private one-hour Webinar for MACPA, a client. We'll cover basic Web 2.0 tools including blogs, rss, wikis, podcasting and tagging. We'll also talk about Second Life. MACPA has a neat space in 2L – SLURL to get there. And visit MACPA's blog…
read moreThe Conference Board’s 2007 Corporate Communication and Technology Conference
Will be speaking both days at The Conference Board's 2007 Corporate Communication and Technology Conference.
DATE: Wednesday and Thursday April 18 – 19, 2007
LOCATION: Intercontinental The Barclay, New York City
TOPIC: Making effective use of Blogging, RSS, Wikis, Podcasting, and Webcasting
Still not atwitter over Twitter
Watch this CBS interview with Robert Scoble (apparently filmed at his new office at Podtech.net in San Jose). It’s the best explanation I’ve seen so far of what Twitter is…
Bulldog Reporter’s Media Relations Summit – Washington DC
I am speaking about corporate blogging on a panel with Christopher Barger (formerly with IBM, now heading up GM's blogging team) and Chris Halvorson, chief blogger for Stonyfield Farm. (Both are quoted extensively in
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Brilliant blogger Kathy Sierra gets death threats
As of this writing, there are 713 1,165 comments on Kathy Sierra’s blog entry, the most I’ve ever seen on any blog post. I’m sure that number will be…
What’s Your Story? Content Strategy Workshop for Corporate Blogging
Visiting with Edelman’s David Brain in London
It’s always nice to have a “brain” when your name is Brain and I can truthfully report that David Brain, president and CEO of Edelman Europe, is scary smart. Had the pleasure…
What’s your story? Workshop on content for corporate blogs – Melcrum / London
I was back in London to do a two-hour workshop for another Melcrum conference – The Social Media Forum for Internal Communicators. This was a great conference with close to 200 attendees from Global 1000 brands, including BT, Microsoft, IBM, etc.
Second Life expert Neville Hobson gets biggest laugh with “Get a First Life” parody
Run, don’t walk to see Get A First Life, a parody of Second Life, the virtual world that’s getting increasing attention from the business world. Look carefully: it’s a bit X-rated.
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read morePhilippe Borremans reveals how social media connects – and inspires – IBM’s 340,000 employees
Melcrum‘s Social Media Forum started off with a bang here in London with an excellent presentation on social media by IBM’s Philippe Borremans (my co-conspsirator in the China Blogging Tour).
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read moreAdWeek on why corporate blogs haven’t taken the world by storm
Good article. Rounds up the usual reasons for why more CEOs aren’t blogging:
– fear (perception of risk)
– time commitment
– nothing interesting to say
-…
Freakonomics blog ponders the question of who comments on blogs: great reading
Stephen Dubner (co-author with Steven Levitt of Freakonomics) ponders the question of who Comments on blog posts and why. Most readers don’t leave comments. In fact, “the…
Who needs Second Life when we’ve got Las Vegas?
Just back from the third NewComm Forum on social media, held this year (March 7 – 9, 2007) at the over-the-top Venetian in over-the-top Las Vegas. The conference was fun and attended…
Why senior exec Russell Stalters blogs (and no, it’s not to make money per se)
Had a great lunch yesterday with Russell Stalters, CTO of a system and software engineering firm and author of BetterECM (stands for enterprise content management).
He works nearby and a mutual friend…
read more10 Ways Blogs Are More Effective Than Message Boards
The perennial question surrounding blogs vs. message boards (aka discussion forums) is one worth revisiting. Namely:
Blogs vs. message boards
- how are blogs different?
- why are they better??
My post today is the result of a gentle prod from a fan of The Corporate Blogging Book.…
read moreTake Melcrum’s Social Media Survey
My friends over at Melcrum Publishing are running a Social Media Usage survey. Click here to take it (it’s quick).
You get a nifty free download at the end: Melcrum’s Quick Start…
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