by Debbie Weil | Oct 26, 2005 | CEO Bloggers, In the News, The Corporate Blogging Book, Uncategorized, Writing
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. Bob is GM’s most high-profile blogger, as you probably know. I guess you could call him one of the first...
by Debbie Weil | Oct 5, 2005 | Uncategorized, Writing
International Herald Tribune reporter Thomas Crampton guest blogs for A-list* blogger Joi Ito and, after 30 days of blog duty, provides these thoughts on how blogging differs from journalism. Blogging means: Involvement (different from the “lecturing”...
by Debbie Weil | Sep 23, 2005 | CEO Bloggers, In the News, Uncategorized, Writing
“Once you start blogging, can you ever stop?” asks prolific blogger Zane Safrit, CEO of Conference Calls Unlimited. To be precise, he didn’t say those exact words during our podcast [click to download the MP3 or listen]. But it’s a great...
by Debbie Weil | Aug 25, 2005 | Stuff, Uncategorized, Writing
I can feel it seeping in, insidiously… a tendency to write in longer, more formal, more tortuous sentences like, well, like this one. Maybe it has to do with focusing on the topic of corporate blogging. Is ‘corporate blogging” the ultimate oxymoron?...
by Debbie Weil | Aug 12, 2005 | In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized, Writing
Here’s Part 2 of my Starbucks interview with Steve Rubel on How the Soup Gets Made, as he put it. But first, the inside skinny…I was so engrossed in talking to the famed author of Micro Persuasion and then writing up our interview that I missed my train...
by Debbie Weil | Aug 11, 2005 | Uncategorized, Writing
Intriguing riff by Seth Godin on two types of writing: for friends or colleagues (who know you and, presumably, your subject matter) vs. for strangers (i.e. those nice folks who take the time to read your blog). Cut the “inside baseball” stuff when...
