Wells Fargo launches a blog to observe 100th anniversary of San Francisco’s 1906 Great Earthquake an
Wells Fargo is offering a sneak preview* of the blog it launches tomorrow as part of the bank’s commemoration of San Francisco’s Great Fire & Earthquake of 1906.…
Should you blog under a pseudonym? Er, probably not…
Read this article about an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University and an employee at a Toronto law firm. They each blogged under a pseudonym. One about race issues, the other critical of the university. Their bosses figured it out and they were both dismissed. Although that wasn’t the…
read morePodcasting: I interviewed Elizabeth Albrycht and was a guest on The Podcast Roundtable
It was a podcasting kind of weekend. Also unseasonably warm and delightful here in Washington DC. I finally got the first edition of the Corporate Blogging Podcast up! It features a face-to-face interview…
CBP #01 Interview with NewComm co-founder Elizabeth Albrycht
Finally! Here’s the first edition of the Corporate Blogging Podcast, the companion to The Corporate Blogging Book. The first show is an interview with Elizabeth Albrycht in Palo Alto, CA on March 1, 2006. Elizabeth is co-founder of the Society for…
CBP #01 Interview with NewComm co-founder Elizabeth Albrycht
Finally! Here’s the first edition of the Corporate Blogging Podcast, the companion to The Corporate Blogging Book. The first show is an interview with Elizabeth Albrycht in Palo Alto, CA on March 1, 2006. Elizabeth is co-founder of the Society for…
Edelman is wading – happily – into the new field of blogger relations with its Wal-Mart blogger camp
There’s a must-read article in today’s NYTimes on the issue of blogger relations: Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in PR Campaign. The article talks about Edelman PR’s efforts to feed tidbits to a group of bloggers to generate positive coverage for the corporation (which is being criticized by pro-union activists…
read moreSo what’s Charlene Li’s ROI on blogging?
Hangin’ with Robert and Shel at the NewComm Forum
Boy, there’s nothing more fun than hangin’ with other book authors when you’ve finished writing… last time I saw Robert Scoble and Shel Israel (co-authors of Naked Conversations) was at the Blog Business Summit in San Francisco in August…
A plethora of blog book authors at NewComm Forum
Just got back from the terrific and stimulating NewComm Forum in Palo Alto, CA. Six blog book authors were there so I put together this slide for attendees of my panel on corporate blogging case studies featuring Jeremiah Owyang for
2006 Newsletter Archives
About the “blogging is dead” meme
No, it ain’t. Not yet. But the obsession with blogging as a fad may (mercifully) be fading. Anyway, read this Wall Street Journal column, Blog Epitaphs? Get Me Rewrite, by Jason Fry for a cogent rant on the topic. Hurry; link will go behind a paid subscription firewall.
From…
read moreMy podcast heros: Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz
I’ve just come out of a four-hour Podcasting 101 workshop, presented by the incomparable Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson of For Immediate Release fame. More later… But wanted…
Breakfast (and podcast) with NewComm Forum’s Elizabeth Albrycht
Back atcha, as they say! I had breakfast this morning in sunny Palo Alto with Elizabeth Albrycht. She’s the co-founder, with Jen McClure, of the NewComm Forum…
McDonald’s has started a Corporate Responsibility blog
McDonald’s has launched a corporate responsiblity blog, Open for Discussion, written primarily by Bob Langert, Senior Director for Corporate Responsibility.
Like many blogs – corporate or not…
read moreCorporate blogging platforms: 5 top contenders
If you’re wondering what platform to use for your corporate blog, you might consider the following contenders.
iUpload took the top prize in Datamation’s 2006 awards for corporate blogging platforms. Followed by WordPress 2.0, Marqui, Traction Software and Movable Type.
If you…
read morePlogging on Amazon… new for authors
I’ve got a “plog” on my Amazon home page. Do you? Frankly, this plog thing is a bit confusing. As Amazon puts it, every person’s plog is different – hence the term “plog” and not “blog.”
So… if you buy my book (I assume this works for pre-orders…
read moreBob Lutz mentions GM’s “financial state” on FastLane blog
If you haven’t checked in lately with GM’s top blogger Bob Lutz (he’s GM’s global vice president for product development), head on over to FastLane right now. His most recent entry – Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before – is a cogent rant on GM’s “image”…
read moreSurprising RSS usage stats: 50 million-plus users don’t know what RSS is
According to MarketingSherpa, at least 75 million consumers and business folk are using RSS feeds in the U.S. and the UK. The catch, only 17 – 32 percent of them *know* they’re using RSS.
Significant? You bet. As the article puts it, we’re beyond the “cool” techie factor…
read moreTop 25 most influential authorities on the topic of business blogging – BlogWrite is #8
According to an “influence index” released yesterday in a report by UK firm Onalytica, this blog is #8 in a list of the top 25 most influential authorities on the topic of business blogging. See below. Puts BlogWrite above the New York Times (meaning the Technology section?),…
read moreMore on the new Google China Blog and what it means in relation to Google’s cooperating with the Chi
I’m quoted in today’s San Jose Mercury News in an article about the new Google China blog: “Google launches China blog a day before China hearing.” The reporter, Elise Ackerman, has just been assigned full-time to “Google” as a beat…