by Debbie Weil | Mar 31, 2006 | CEO Bloggers, In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized
It was bound to happen. An A-list blogger or two decides to throw in the towel. Enough blogging is, er, enough. But why? Read on…Two well-respected bloggers have announced their retirement recently. One is the irascible Dave Winer, creator of the RSS format and...
by Debbie Weil | Mar 28, 2006 | Stuff, Uncategorized
In the “believe it or not” category… Google yesterday deleted its own blog by mistake. But they figured out the problem and it’s up and running again. A good reminder to back up the content of your blog from time to time so all those precious...
by Debbie Weil | Mar 13, 2006 | Stuff, Uncategorized
Employees who blog under a pseudonym, and are outed, often lose their jobs. Despite the supposed anonymity of the Internet, their bosses figure it out sooner or later. A 2009 article in CNN lists numerous coming-out stories – most with unhappy endings. So...
by Debbie Weil | Mar 7, 2006 | Fortune 500 Blogs, Stuff, Uncategorized
There’s a must-read article in today’s NYTimes on the issue of blogger relations: Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in PR Campaign. The article talks about Edelman PR’s efforts to feed tidbits to a group of bloggers to generate positive coverage for the...
by Debbie Weil | Mar 7, 2006 | CEO Bloggers, ROI, Stuff, Uncategorized
It’s, er, over 5,000 percent. That’s based on her calculation that her $14.95 / month account with TypePad triggered $1 million in new business for Forrester last year. Charlene, who’s a principal analyst for Forrester based in San Francisco, blogs...
by Debbie Weil | Mar 1, 2006 | In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized
No, it ain’t. Not yet. But the obsession with blogging as a fad may (mercifully) be fading. Anyway, read this Wall Street Journal column, Blog Epitaphs? Get Me Rewrite, by Jason Fry for a cogent rant on the topic. Hurry; link will go behind a paid subscription...
