Inside DaimlerChrysler’s Firehouse blog for the media
I signed up to enter DaimlerChrysler’s new Firehouse.biz blog set up for the media. Not sure why, but they let me right in. Well, guess what… it looks like…
Download Seth Godin’s e-book on Why Blog?
Been meaning to post this. I love the way Seth Godin writes. He inspires me to… just say it. Take out all those clauses and that clutter.
From…
read moreCEO blogger Zane Safrit asks: Once you start blogging, can you ever stop? [Podcast]
“Once you start blogging, can you ever stop?” asks prolific blogger Zane Safrit, CEO of Conference Calls Unlimited. To be precise, he didn’t say those exact words during…
Reporters Without Borders has published a guide for bloggers and cyber-dissidents
Corporate blogging is all well and good. But this is cool. Reporters Without Borders, an organization modeling itself on Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), has published an 86-page guide advising cyber-dissidents…
It’s Global PR Blog Week 2.0
Head on over to Global PR Blog Week 2.0 (Sept. 19 – 23, 2005) for a rich taste of what’s going on in the intersecting world of blogs, public relations and business communications. I’ve…
Need a researcher for your book? Try Google Answers
Just stumbled across Google Answers. It looks cool. You type in your question, post a “bid” (i.e. pay a small fee), and then sit back and wait for one of Google’s independent researchers to give you an answer. Obviously, the more you pay the quicker you get an answer.…
read moreCorporate Blogging 2.0
Could it be?? Yes, I think we’re there. It’s the second wave of corporate blogging. Things are starting to shake out. It’s our first peek at the ugly underbelly… Turns…
Google’s Blog Search validates the importance of RSS
Wow… it’s fast. It’s simple. It works. Google Blog Search, which launched yesterday in beta, is the hottest new blogging tool to be released for us non-techie* types. Why?…
Best new downloadable white papers on corporate blogging
Get ’em here:
The Content Factor’s To Blog Or Not To Blog (download page)
Edelman/Intelliseek’s The Rise of Employee Bloggers (download page)
read moreLawsuits against bloggers are starting to pop up… you may want to add a “Comments Disclaimer” to y
You knew it was only a matter of time before lawyers got into the act, right? And I don’t mean the many lawyers writing blawgs (as they’re called). So far there is very little case law relating specifically to blogs and bloggers. That’s changing. A case against a…
read moreRoger Staubach launches CEO blog “to stay in touch”
Roger Staubach, famed quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys and now CEO of a real estate advisory firm, The Staubach Company, has launched a blog, Monday Morning…
What crisis bloggers do “after” the crisis
The blogging buzz continues as loud as ever, one week after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. If you’re wondering what the point is after the hurricane has passed and on-the-scene bloggers can no longer give us a blow-by-blow, consider New Orleans refugee Steven O’Keefe. O’Keefe is a Tulane…
read moreCrisis blogging and what it means to business
The disaster of Hurricane Katrina is mind-boggling. My heart goes out to all those affected. Like so many folks, I have a special feeling for the city of New Orleans. Inconceivable to think of 80 percent of the city being underwater.
Coincidentally, I’m writing a chapter in my…
read moreRSS & email are the How; blogs & ezines are the What
RSS expert Rok Hrastnik has penned a lucid explanation of the relationship between blogs, ezines, RSS and email. As he puts it:
“Blogs and e-zines or newsletters are “the what” — what you publish online … the content side.
RSS and e-mail are “the how” — how you get that…
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Please vote on proposed titles for my corporate blogging book
I’d love your thumbs up or down on the title and proposed sub-titles for the book I’m writing for Penguin Portfolio. We’re trying to nail it. The current front-runner is The Corporate Blogging Book. It’s so stupidly obvious we’re thinking it just might work. Plus it will rank high…
read moreUseful stuff I’ve read this summer… on book writing, blogging as a disruptive technology and the W
Click over to debbie’s blog to get the scoop on what I’ve been reading this summer. Oh, and while you’re at it, I want your thumbs up or down on the title and proposed sub-titles for the book. We’re trying to nail it. The current front-runner is The…
read moreUseful stuff I’ve read this summer… on book writing, blogging as a disruptive technology and the W
The summer has flown by. I’ve been working on my book, tentatively titled The Corporate Blogging Book. BTW, that title is so stupidly obvious we’re thinking it just might work. Waddya think? Click here to vote on proposed titles for my book about corporate blogging. I want…
read moreTime Still the Top “Fear Factor” When It Comes to Corporate Blogging
In response to a WordBiz survey, 65% cite “the time it would take to write” as their most important concern about starting and maintaining a corporate blog. 51% worry what to write about. 27% wonder who in their company should write the blog.
Despite these legitimate concerns, 80% of the…
read moreWhat does your brand sound like?
Note to self: cut the corporate-speak when I’m writing
I can feel it seeping in, insidiously… a tendency to write in longer, more formal, more tortuous sentences like, well, like this one. Maybe it has to do with focusing on the topic of corporate blogging. Is ‘corporate blogging” the ultimate oxymoron? Not necessarily. But it does pose the particular…
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