BLOGGING TELESEMINAR
I forgot to mention… Don’t miss the WordBiz Blogging for Business teleseminar on Thursday, Nov. 20th. Get all your blogging for profit questions answered. I’ll be grilling a techie guy (Dave Taylor) and a business guy (NewsGator’s Greg Weinacker) with questions such as: – why would my…
read moreSELLING IS… GOOD!
I just published this week’s issue of WordBiz Report featuring a lead article on long vs. short sales copy by contributing writer Michel Fortin. As an example of “long copy,” I included a pointer to the sales page for my new handbook: Insider Secrets of Profitable E-Newsletters.…
read moreAD-TECH’S EXAMPLES OF BUSINESS BLOGS
Blogger-reporter B.L. Ochman writes this about an Ad-Tech session on blogging for business: “Among the business blogs discussed during the session were blogs for tattoo parlors, construction companies, pubs, a German fashion label, Jones Soda, BizNet Tavel.com, Sega and Home Depot’s game blogs, Barbie’s blog and Dr. Pepper’s…
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Here’s a good example of blogging with a business purpose: Ad-Tech is sponsoring a blog of its three-day conference in New York City this week. MarketingWonk has deployed a team of bloggers to cover every session and report to us live. Only problem is a lack of…
read moreNICE WORK, NICK
My friend and colleague Nick Usborne has the gift for a “turn of phrase.” He used the words white color spam in his blog a few days ago. Next thing he knows, Seth Godin mentioned it in his blog. Then came a call from The New York Times.…
read moreE-NEWSLETTER TURNED BLOG
Amy Gahran, a well-respected writer and content consultant, has turned her (occasional) e-newsletter into a blog. Check it out. You can subscribe to it as an RSS feed. Oh, and apologies about the lapse in posting. I was migrating this blog from one server to another. Thanks to
ON BLOGGING WELL
It occurred to me when I was visiting Seth Godin’s blog recently that there is a “good blogging style” – and he seems to have it. It’s when you develop a concise, vigorous voice and use it to post interesting, relevant or useful bits & pieces. Does this say…
read moreMEN GIVE UP FIRST
This post has been in draft mode for the past 24 hours while I published the latest issue of WordBiz Report. In other words, I started to post a note about a new survey by Perseus. I stopped because I wasn’t quite finished writing. And saved it as…
read moreTop 20 Definitions of Blogging
What is a blog? Why blog? Who should blog (journalists, marketers, CEOs, techies, educators, scientists, hobbyists)? Should blogging be pure or can you make money with a blog? Will blogging change everything?
Picture several hundred intense writer/thinker/bloggers at BlogCon in Cambridge, MA the weekend of Oct. 4 – 5,…
read moreEMAIL IS SLIPPERY
I love this article by Dave Gelerntner in the 29 Sept 03 issue of The Weekly Standard, although I’m not sure I agree. “Is (email) good or bad for the art of writing? Both. It devalues the written word; email is so fast and easy to send, correspondents exchange…
read moreTOP 20 DEFINITIONS OF BLOGGING
I just posted a new article for tomorrow’s issue of WordBiz Report: Top 20 Definitions of Blogging. I’m still adding to the resource links at the bottom. If I’ve forgotten something horribly obvious and important (or if you just want to add another definition), post your comment below.
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YOU’RE PROMOTED: NOW YOU CAN BLOG!
Provocative discussion in the first panel this morning – the last day of BlogCon 2003. Halley Suitt invited feedback on her case study published in the Sept. 2003 issue of Harvard Business Review: “A blogger in our midst… ” Briefly, the case study laid out the situation…
read moreTOTALLY CLUELESS AT LUNCH
I sat next to Adam Curry at lunch. Totally clueless… didn’t know he’s FAMOUS. Most notably as ex-MTV VJ. So there I am saying stupid things about actress Demi Moore and her 25-year-old boyfriend and how “obscene†(yes, I used that word) it is for them to be…
read moreBLOGGING AS A TOOL TO TEACH WRITING
Great discussion by this second panel on blogging as a tool to teach writing. First you think (yeah, writing starts with thinking), then you draft, re-write, maybe rewrite again, check for accuracy, polish, then publish. If your post gets comments, you might respond with a follow-up. Sorry, can’t remember who…
read moreEDIT ME, PLEASE
Scott Rosenberg of Salon.com made a great comment: Some journalistic bloggers prefer to be edited. Otherwise you’re “working without a net.” An editor is another brain, another person to bounce your writing off. Whether or not a Weblog should be edited is a sticky question. If, as conference chair…
read moreI DON’T HAVE A BUSINESS PLAN… SNICKER
Glenn Reynolds was awfully interesting on the first panel. Must admit I haven’t been a regular reader of his Instapundit blog. But he’s a good thinker, a good writer and hence a good commentator. He gets it. He’s a law professor and not a journalist. But he’s got all…
read moreWEBLOGS MAKE YOU THINK
I’m blogging live from BlogCon (they finally got the “Internet to work” as Dave Winer put it). Someone behind me just made a great comment: Journalistic Weblogs make you think. You have to be a savvy meda consumer in order to read blogs. You have to do your own…
read moreBLOGGING AT BLOGCON
I’m at BlogCon in Cambridge, MA on the campus of Harvard Law School, hobnobbing with bloggers galore. I’m in the first row, orange scarf, apparently deep in thought. If you’re interested here is the metablog for this conference.
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