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What should the CEO blog about… and why

by Debbie Weil | Sep 21, 2006 | CEO Bloggers, Fortune 500 Blogs, Stuff, Uncategorized, Writing

Caution: this is a really long post. I prepared it originally for the iaoc blog where I’m hosting a discussion this week on CEO blogging. I may come back and add some stuff later. I know I haven’t covered every wrinkle. But in the spirit of instant...

Oops! McDonald’s opens mouth, inserts Hummer, Happy Meal and hamburger

by Debbie Weil | Sep 12, 2006 | Fortune 500 Blogs, Stuff, Uncategorized

Quite a bit has been written about McDonald’s Open for Discussion blog (it’s on the topic of corporate social responsibility) and the blog’s non-response to readers’ negative comments about miniature Hummers as Happy Meals giveaways. Before I...

Wells Fargo’s new blog about student loans has a lame name but it’s a great idea

by Debbie Weil | Sep 10, 2006 | Case Studies, Fortune 500 Blogs, Stuff, Uncategorized

Was just checking out Wells Fargo’s new blog: The Student LoanDown. I puzzled over the name for several minutes. Then read About this blog and realized immediately that it’s the “lowdown” on all things related to student loans and financing...

Good advice: blog to be found by real people who don’t have a clue what RSS is

by Debbie Weil | Sep 5, 2006 | New New Things, Stuff, Uncategorized, Writing

Jakob Nielsen nails it in his most recent AlertBox column: Use Old Words When Writing for Findability. While it may be tempting for some of us to opine about Web 2.0 – i.e. the next generation Web, defined in part by user-created content such as YouTube videos,...

Q & A: Aren’t corporate blogs too self-serving and salesy?

by Debbie Weil | Aug 31, 2006 | Stuff, Uncategorized

Q. Mike Goldstein of Rockcoastmedia asked me recently: “I have been debating whether or not to suggest [that] my SEO clients add a blog to their corporate site. I am afraid that corporate blogs come off as too self serving and tend to talk too much about the...

Beginner’s Guide to Business Blogging re-released on ChangeThis.com

by Debbie Weil | Aug 27, 2006 | Stuff, The Corporate Blogging Book, Uncategorized

Yo – forgot to mention this. My Beginner’s Guide to Business Blogging, the PDF collection of articles that’s the embryonic version of The Corporate Blogging Book, was re-released recently on ChangeThis.com. You can download it free.
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