by Debbie Weil | Jul 9, 2007 | Fortune 500 Blogs, Stuff, Uncategorized
Google’s blogging gaffe happened over a week ago and there’s still a flap about it in the blogosphere and in MSM (mainstream media). A quick recap, Google employee Lauren Turner, a sales rep for Google ads, gave Michael Moore’s new film, Sicko, a...
by Debbie Weil | Jun 15, 2007 | CEO Bloggers, Social Media, Stuff, Uncategorized
A best practice adage about corporate blogging is that there’s gotta be an inside evangelist in order for the blog to work. Well GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare has one in the form of VP of Weight Control Steve Burton. Steve is the lead author on GSK’s...
by Debbie Weil | Jun 13, 2007 | Events, In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized
Speaking at Bulldog Reporter’s packed Media Relations Summit yesterday here in Washington, technology columnist David Pogue opined about blogs, podcasts, vlogs, digg, FlickR, Craigslist, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace… and clogs (commercial blogs like Gawker...
by Debbie Weil | Jun 6, 2007 | Social Media, Stuff, The Corporate Blogging Book, Uncategorized
I’m writing (or trying to write) a short introduction for the Mandarin Chinese edition of The Corporate Blogging Book – to be published in a few months. I’ve got some interesting stats and commentary on the Chinese blogosphere from the folks at...
by Debbie Weil | May 29, 2007 | Stuff, Uncategorized
I almost never comply when someone asks me to recommend their product/service. But this one is cool. Boris Simkovich, CEO of ZuulaCorp, emailed out of the blue to tell me about Zuula, his new search engine with a dedicated “blog” tab. Zuula also searches...
by Debbie Weil | May 21, 2007 | Social Media, Stuff, Uncategorized
I’ve been talking about this very phenomenon for a while now. Today there’s an article by media columnist Howard Kurtz in The Washington Post titled: Don’t Quote Me. The point he makes is that executives often prefer to do an interview with a...
