by Debbie Weil | Nov 3, 2005 | Fortune 500 Blogs, Uncategorized
GM’s Smallblock Engine blog shuts down tomorrow after exactly one year, perhaps the first highly-publicized Fortune 500 blog to bite the dust. This sounds like a natural death. It was an event-driven blog, created for the 50th anniversary of the Corvette’s...
by Debbie Weil | Nov 2, 2005 | The Corporate Blogging Book, Uncategorized
It’s like childbirth. (Apologies if this metaphor doesn’t work for you.) Scary, exhilarating and, yes, painful. To be precise, it feels like the last stage of giving birth. Suddenly it’s going faster, there’s an unstoppable momentum and you...
by Debbie Weil | Oct 30, 2005 | In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized
With this over-the-top teaser on the Nov. 14, 2005 cover of the magazine, They [My edit: A tiny number of blogs] destroy brands and wreck lives. Is there any way to fight back? the folks at Forbes have stirred up a whole lot of predictable blacklash from the...
by Debbie Weil | Oct 29, 2005 | CEO Bloggers, In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized
I’m kidding, of course. But the thought did occur to me upon reading this morning’s coverage of the indictment of White House top aide Scooter Libby (Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff). Quoted in the Washington Post is David King of...
by Debbie Weil | Oct 27, 2005 | In the News, New New Things, Uncategorized
Update (2 days later): SixApart’s CEO Barak Berkowitz provides more details. He posted his Message from the CEO to the TypePad blog and also sent it in an HTML email to customers:Dear Debbie, As you might know, some of our users have been experiencing...
by Debbie Weil | Oct 27, 2005 | CEO Bloggers, Fortune 500 Blogs, In the News, The Corporate Blogging Book, Uncategorized
Speaking of blog writing by CEOs (or top execs), this is cool… I’m thrilled to announce that Bob Lutz, GM’s vice chairman of global product development, is writing the Foreword to my book, The Corporate Blogging Book (Penguin Portfolio). Bob is...
