by Debbie Weil | Aug 22, 2011 | Corporate Blogging, New New Things, Uncategorized
I published my first article about business blogging in August, 2001. You can read it here. Whew. A lot of water under the bridge since then, including 9/11, which happened only a few weeks later. The Corporate Bloggging Book was published in 2006. The updated digital...
by Debbie Weil | Aug 9, 2011 | New New Things, Uncategorized
This is not the first summer that I’ve taken a break from all digital, all the time. And I hope it won’t be the last. As I wrote last July, there’s something about a stretch away from DC that makes me feel like a kid in camp who wants to try new activities. This...
by Debbie Weil | Feb 1, 2011 | Corporate Blogging, New New Things, Uncategorized
One of the reasons I cough up for not blogging frequently enough is that I don’t like to repeat myself. As I’ve been blogging for SIXTEEN YEARS, I’ve said a . lot . of . stuff about business blogging. But it turns out that repeating yourself is a good thing when you...
by Debbie Weil | Sep 11, 2010 | Corporate Blogging, New New Things, Uncategorized
Nine years seems like a long time. Depending, that is, on the event or phenomenon you are marking. Today is nine years exactly since 9/11. Although I live in DC, I happened to be in New York that day. I was in Union Square, about a mile from Ground Zero and watched...
by Debbie Weil | Sep 11, 2010 | New New Things, Uncategorized
Have you ever noticed that we don’t allow ourselves to graze the Web the way we did back in 1994 when Netscape first became available? I can remember spending hours (and hours) clicking from one site to another, utterly entranced by this thing called the Web. It...
by Debbie Weil | Jul 31, 2010 | New New Things, Uncategorized
There is something about summer – and especially spending a few weeks on the coast of Maine – that makes me want to try new things. I guess it’s the “kid at camp” syndrome where you sign up for riflery even though you’re scared of...
