by Debbie Weil | Apr 25, 2006 | CEO Bloggers, Fortune 500 Blogs, Uncategorized
UPDATE: The answer appears to be yes! Several hours after I wrote the entry below, Jonathan posted When I First Met Scott… A nice story about meeting retiring CEO Scott McNealy for the first time in 1992 or ’93. Followed by a riff on Sun’s mantra,...
by Debbie Weil | Apr 1, 2006 | CEO Bloggers, Corporate Blogging, The Corporate Blogging Book, Uncategorized
I was at a great yoga class this morning. Two hours, really hot and sweaty, must have loosened up every major muscle group. Hey, feelin’ good! So I turn my cell back on afterwards and there’s a message from BILL GATES!! He received the latest issue of my...
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 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 | Feb 28, 2006 | CEO Bloggers, Fortune 500 Blogs, Uncategorized
McDonald’s has launched a corporate responsiblity blog, Open for Discussion, written primarily by Bob Langert, Senior Director for Corporate Responsibility. Like many blogs – corporate or not – it got off to a slow start. Too many days between the...
by Debbie Weil | Feb 21, 2006 | CEO Bloggers, Fortune 500 Blogs, Uncategorized
If you haven’t checked in lately with GM’s top blogger Bob Lutz (he’s GM’s global vice president for product development), head on over to FastLane right now. His most recent entry – Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before –...
