by Debbie Weil | May 18, 2006 | Events, General, In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized
Here’s a Q&A on Beyond Blogging that I did by email with Chris Heuer of Beyond Blogging 2006. Tomorrow’s event started out as a breakfast roundtable at the Mayflower Hotel. It has mushroomed to 500+ people thanks to great organizing and WOMM...
by Debbie Weil | May 15, 2006 | Stuff, Uncategorized
Tris Hussey of Qumana and blogging fame is at the podium as I write, leading a freewheeling discussion on blogging and marketing, authenticity and monetization, good blogging and bad blogging. At mesh in Toronto. While the discussion is intelligent and thoughtful, I...
by Debbie Weil | May 3, 2006 | Case Studies, Stuff, Uncategorized, Writing
Here’s a truism about corporate blogging: generally, nobody cares about your widgets. What people do care about is stuff related to your widgets – cool things you can do with them, related lifestyles, industry issues, etc. This is where it gets a bit...
by Debbie Weil | Apr 24, 2006 | New New Things, Podcasting, Social Media, Stuff, Uncategorized
Looks like the first two sections of The Economist’s New Media survey (April 22, 2006 issue of the print magazine) is accessible online, at least for now. I highly recommend it. It’s got some nice tidbits and turns of phrase related to blogging, wikis,...
by Debbie Weil | Apr 13, 2006 | New New Things, Stuff, Uncategorized, YouTube
I just watched the funniest video clip starring Steve Crescenzo, a corporate communications guru who also writes a very funny blog, Corporate Hallucinations. It’s a Rocky take-off (the 1976 movie starring Sylvester Stallone) set to the theme music, showing...
by Debbie Weil | Apr 4, 2006 | In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized
Eegads…almost everyone bit when I posted on April Fool’s Day that Bill Gates hired me to be his executive blog coach. Here’s an email I got from a friend and colleague who happens to be a senior executive. Yes, he’s the enthusiastic type:...