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Getting kids, er, customers, to blog for you

by Debbie Weil | Feb 10, 2006 | Fortune 500 Blogs, In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized

This is the newest wrinkle in corporate blogging. It’s brilliant and it’s a simple concept. Coke has found six smart university students (from China, the U.S., Austria, Germany, Canada and Italy) to blog the Torino Winter Olympic Games for them. Torino...

If podcasting is 2005 word of the year, why isn’t it as easy as blogging?

by Debbie Weil | Jan 11, 2006 | In the News, Podcasting, Uncategorized

In case you missed it, “podcast” was declared 2005 word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary. The concept is simple and yet profound. Podcasts are audio files – talk radio with music thrown in – that you can download,...

Would you care for a side order of RSS, er, a Web feed, with that?

by Debbie Weil | Dec 29, 2005 | In the News, New New Things, Stuff, Uncategorized

Microsoft has spoken and we’re gonna have to follow. The orange button you see at the left is the new standard icon to indicate that an RSS or Web feed is available from a blog or Web site. Grab a version of the new icon here. P.S. Microsoft’s RSS team...

Best Free Downloads of 2005: blogging, RSS, email and podcasting

by Debbie Weil | Dec 22, 2005 | Free Downloads, In the News, New New Things, Podcasting, Stuff, Uncategorized

This post updated July 7, 2011. Well it’s that time of year… time for a “Best Of” list! So many free guides, so little time to cull through them. Here’s my quick pick of the most informative on this year’s hot topics: blogging, RSS...

Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web, gets 455 comments on his first blog entry

by Debbie Weil | Dec 22, 2005 | In the News, Uncategorized

It’s gotta be a record. Read his first post here. Berners-Lee proposed the idea of the Web in 1989. Then tinkered quietly, releasing the first browser by Christmas Day 1990. Amazing to think it was only 15 years ago. I attended the 4th international WWW...

What REALLY happened behind Kryptonite’s blogging fiasco and what it means for the rise of corporate

by Debbie Weil | Dec 20, 2005 | CEO Bloggers, Fortune 500 Blogs, In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized

Damn. I had the inside scoop two months ago about what REALLY happened last year when bike lockmaker Kryptonite had its fabled run-in with the blogosphere. I decided not to publish my “tell-all” interview with Kryptonite’s PR manager, Donna Tocci,...
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