Dave Taylor and I are at bloggerheads over GM’s Fastlane blog
Ohhh… Dave Taylor and I are having fun over on BusinessBlogConsulting.com, the group blog we both contribute to. Check it out. Read the comments below Dave’s post (“GM FastLane Blog begins to reflect the troubles of the corporation?”) for our back and forth volley on how GM’s…
read moreSteve Rubel’s Ten Blogging Hacks
What can I say? Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion fame is just too clever. No time to wax eloquent. Buried in the book.
Here are Steve Rubel’s 10 Blogging Hacks. Learn about Writely (document writing and sharing via the Web), automatic posting of your daily del.icio.us…
read moreMashup of your RSS feeds: try Feeddigest
Have you heard about Feeddigest? Sounds cool. And like a great tool for the non-techie like me. Basically, it rolls up all your RSS feeds (mixes them), converts them to HTML (or PHP or…
Watch this space!
While I’m holed up writing The Corporate Blogging Book, this blog debbieweil.com is being re-designed as the meta site – or portal – for all my sites (WordBiz.com, WordBizStore.com, EnewsletterStarterKit.com,
Synthetic transparency: a new term for corporate blogging?
Provocative.
A group of students in “Advanced Organizational Communication” at Northeastern University are penning a blog along with their professor and they’ve come up with a new way of describing a corporate blog:
“Synthetic transparency involves using blogs to give the impression of openness, honesty, and transparency but…
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The cover for The Corporate Blogging Book
So waddya think? I kind of like it. There’s been some discussion about whether “Hello” is the right word for the thought bubble. I think it’s open-ended and neutral enough that it’s fine. Kudos to Penguin Portfolio’s designer!
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read moreGM’s Smallblock Engine blog shuts down, but that’s OK
GM’s Smallblock Engine blog shuts down tomorrow after exactly one year, perhaps the first highly-publicized Fortune 500 blog to bite the dust. This sounds like a natural death. It was an event-driven blog, created for the 50th anniversary of the Corvette’s small-block engine. And the party is over. Makes…
read moreFinally, The Corporate Blogging Book is coming together
It’s like childbirth. (Apologies if this metaphor doesn’t work for you.) Scary, exhilarating and, yes, painful. To be precise, it feels like the last stage of giving birth. Suddenly it’s going faster, there’s an unstoppable momentum and you know there will be a result that will make it all worthwhile.…
read moreForbes bites back the blogosphere with “Attack of the Blogs” but overstates the case; where was Dani
With this over-the-top teaser on the Nov. 14, 2005 cover of the magazine, They [My edit: A tiny number of blogs] destroy brands and wreck lives.…
Why Bush should blog
I’m kidding, of course. But the thought did occur to me upon reading this morning’s coverage of the indictment of White House top aide Scooter Libby (Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff). Quoted in the Washington Post is David King of Harvard’s Institute of Politics:
“Bush (ought to) at least…
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SixApart’s Mena and Ben Trott explain current problems with TypePad
Update (2 days later): SixApart’s CEO Barak Berkowitz provides more details. He posted his Message from the CEO to the TypePad blog and also sent it in an HTML email to customers:
Dear Debbie,
As you might know, some of our users have…
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GM’s Bob Lutz, blogger and global vice chairman, is writing the foreword to The Corporate Blogging B
Speaking of blog writing by CEOs (or top execs), this is cool… I’m thrilled to announce that Bob Lutz, GM’s vice chairman of global product development, is writing the Foreword to my book, The Corporate Blogging Book (Penguin Portfolio).
Bob is GM’s most high-profile blogger as…
read moreHow do you know when you’re playing too rough in the blogosphere?
Listen up SixApart: some of your TypePad customers may switch
GM’s Bob Lutz, blogger and vice chairman, is writing the Foreword to The Corporate Blogging Book
This is cool. I’m thrilled to announce that Bob Lutz, GM’s vice chairman of global product development, is writing the Foreword to my book.
Bob is GM’s most high-profile blogger, as you probably know. I guess you could call him one of the first A-list bloggers for…
read moreGM’s Bob Lutz, blogger and vice chairman, is writing the foreword to The Corporate Blogging Book
This is cool. I’m thrilled to announce that Bob Lutz, GM’s vice chairman of global product development, is writing the Foreword to my book.
Bob is GM’s most high-profile blogger, as you probably know. I guess you could call him one of the first A-list bloggers for the…
read moreAnd the sub-title of The Corporate Blogging Book is…
The Penguin folks and I have gone round and round on this one. Not disagreeing, mind you. Just trying to nail something that, er, felt right. Interestingly, the final choice is surprisingly close to many of the suggestions offered by over 100 loyal WordBiz Report readers in a
Should you have to dirty your hands with the intricacies of blogging software?
I gotta say that I’d run screaming the other way if I were a manager reading Andy Wibbels’ recent blog entry titled Blogging Cheatsheets. Andy offers four PDF downloads, each a mindmap illustrating in (terrifying) detail how to use the various features of the popular Blogger, WordPress,…
read moreSo what could your organization do with a blog?
In writing the chapter called “What Your Organization Could Do With a Blog” I’ve rounded up all the usual suspects. A partial list:
- Blogging as a complement to (or replacement for) traditional PR
- Blogs as the new corporate Web site
- Blogs and microbrands (thanks to Hugh Macleod)
I queried…
read moreNew corporate blogging survey grossly inflates percentage of companies that are blogging
Sorry, I can’t let this one pass. As much as I’d like to believe the reported results of the iUpload and Guidewire Group Corporate Blogging Survey released this week, I can’t. The survey reports that 89% of companies are blogging. And that corporate adoption of blogging is entering the…
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