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Wells Fargo’s new blog about student loans has a lame name but it’s a great idea

by Debbie Weil | Sep 10, 2006 | Case Studies, Fortune 500 Blogs, Stuff, Uncategorized

Was just checking out Wells Fargo’s new blog: The Student LoanDown. I puzzled over the name for several minutes. Then read About this blog and realized immediately that it’s the “lowdown” on all things related to student loans and financing...

Sun Microsystems’ Mike Dillon is the first Fortune 500 General Counsel to blog

by Debbie Weil | Aug 10, 2006 | CEO Bloggers, Fortune 500 Blogs, Uncategorized

According to today’s Wall Street Journal. Mike Dillon starts off in pitch-perfect blogging form on the legal thing… He writes: “I was surfing with a friend last weekend who is CFO of a very hot private start-up. Actually, let me clarify. He was...

Still don’t believe in the power of the blogosphere? Dell starts a blog, presumably in response to J

by Debbie Weil | Jul 11, 2006 | Case Studies, Fortune 500 Blogs, In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized

Dell just started blogging at one2one. And they’re responding positively, thus far, to a snarky blog post from big name blogger Jeff Jarvis and a critical, but thoughtful, post by Steve Rubel. (And a more measured riff from Robert Scoble.) Jarvis, you may...

So why should you care about Fortune 500 CEO bloggers?

by Debbie Weil | May 2, 2006 | CEO Bloggers, Fortune 500 Blogs, Uncategorized

Several reporters have called me today. A freelancer working on a story for BusinessWeek wanted to know if it’s *really* true that Sun Microsystems’ new CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, is the first Fortune 500 CEO blogger… and isn’t this all just a fad...

Will Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz be the first Fortune 500 CEO blogger?

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,...

One second of fame: quoted in the Fortune 500 Issue of Fortune on corporate blogging

by Debbie Weil | Apr 18, 2006 | Fortune 500 Blogs, ROI, Uncategorized

In the April 17, 2006 issue of Fortune Magazine I’m quoted in a 100-word sidebar on page 36 (lower left-hand corner) about corporate blogging. Fortune reporter Telis Demos, author of the sidebar, writes: “Yesterday your grandmother started blogging. So why...
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