by Debbie Weil | Sep 30, 2008 | CEO Bloggers, Uncategorized
Just ran across this. Forrester CEO George Colony started a blog in late January 2008. In April he spoke at the Forrester Marketing Forum on his first two months of blogging. “It only takes an hour a week,” he said but he finds himself thinking about...
by Debbie Weil | Sep 23, 2008 | CEO Bloggers, New New Things, Uncategorized
David Meerman Scott and I enjoyed some Mexican food in Reston, VA tonight. David was in town to do one of his New Rules of Marketing seminars based on his eponymous best-selling book. Below we’re having a little fun after dinner. I asked him if he thought CEOs...
by Debbie Weil | Sep 19, 2008 | CEO Bloggers, Uncategorized
35-year-old Google co-founder Sergey Brin started a blog named Too yesterday. It’s on Blogger, of course. MInimalist design of white type on a black background (which I find hard to read). Too is a play on “two” and on the fact that the blog is about...
by Debbie Weil | Sep 16, 2008 | CEO Bloggers, Global, Social Media, Uncategorized
I’m staggered after reading the following in today’s NYTimes Business section: “About 12:30 Monday morning, Lehman sent out a press release announcing its intention to seek bankruptcy protection. Lehman’s 25,000 employees learned of the filing...
by Debbie Weil | Aug 25, 2008 | CEO Bloggers, Corporate Blogging, In the News, Uncategorized
In an article on the front page of today’s Washington Post Business section, reporter Sarah Halzack notes, several years belatedly, that Marketing Moves to the Blogosphere. She rounds up a few of the local suspects to comment on their corporate blogs, including...
by Debbie Weil | Aug 14, 2008 | CEO Bloggers, Corporate Blogging, Uncategorized
I missed this when it aired several weeks ago. Nothing new but fun to see it on network TV. Marriott tells the reporter that Bill Marriott’s CEO blog is responsible for $4 million in bookings on the main site. That’s not a huge amount given...