February 28, 2006

Keep your bloggers in the loop

- a shel of my former self

Robert Scoble points out that there’s more to a network of employee bloggers than policies governing what they can and cannot say. Over the weekend, a storm erupted online over the impending release of a new Microsoft product code-named... ›››

Category: Blogging | internal

February 27, 2006

Diem carp’d

- NevilleHobson.com

Hugh and I were exchanging some emails about my little faux pas over my previous post about Edelman (re a story that turned out not to be true). Mea culpa, said Hugh. A kind response, but it was more... ›››

Category: Blogging | Humour

The time is right for Naked Conversations

- NevilleHobson.com

Robert Scoble reports a big upward blip in sales of Naked Conversations, the business book on blogging he co-authored with Shel Israel: I was talking with Richard Edelman yesterday (his blog is here) and he told me he bought... ›››

Category: Blogging | Books | Business | Communication | Weblogs

February 26, 2006

One thing leads to another

- a shel of my former self

The minor overhaul to this blog began with an Eastern European bot hammering my server. Neville was the first to point out that my blog was returning that damned SQL error, which means so many connections were being opened... ›››

Category: Blogging

Roadmaps This and That

- Marketing Roadmaps

So I am finally getting around to trying out Qumana. One too many posts in progress eaten by the "mystical keystroke combo" that closes all my open windows :-) And malformed HTML code because I forgot to save my... ›››

February 25, 2006

Spam and Porn and BlogHer

- Marketing Roadmaps

So today is apparently not my day. I got a notice from a blog search engine (FINDINGBLOG) that two of the blogs I write were rejected because:Your submission is not compatible with our listing policy because: (1) it is... ›››

Category: Blogging | blogher06

February 24, 2006

No Sound Bytes I'm Afraid: Blogs as the Perfect Vehicle for Microstories

- Crossroads Dispatches

On the day after the tsunami anniversary, I ran into Ed, a Reuters foreign correspondent whom interviewed me and I had first met at an all-day meditation tsunami memorial event on Christmas. We sat down for a couple of... ›››

Here I am in NY at PRSA

- CorporatePR

I am teaching a professional development seminar at PRSA hdq today and having a lot of fun. More later!... ›››

Category: Blogging

February 23, 2006

More on the Changing Nature of Blogs

- Marketing Roadmaps

Yesterday, I shared my list of collected posts about the changing nature of blogs. I’ve been thinking quite a lot about this lately as I prepare for a business blogging workshop at the University of Wisconsin next month. Here’s... ›››

Category: Blogging | Marketing | Web Marketing

February 22, 2006

Round-up: Changing nature of blogs

- Marketing Roadmaps

I'm working on some material about the changing nature of blogs as part of my preparation for a workshop I am leading at the University of Wisconsin next month. Here are some of the posts I've collected over the... ›››

Category: Blogging | Marketing | Media | PR

Playing Technorati Favorites

- Media Guerrilla

Technorati continues to crank out services faster than the Keelber's can crank out cookies. Is there a connection? Possibly. Something to ponder. In the meantime, we're left to fiddle with thier latest creation: Technorati Favorites. 'It's really very simple.... ›››

Category: Blog | Blogging | blogroll | technorati

ProfNet bloggers

- NevilleHobson.com

Dan Forbush has posted an interesting collection of links to blogs (and podcasts) that are being written by members of ProfNet: How many ProfNet members and experts, we wonder, write blogs that are squarely rooted in their primary area... ›››

Category: Blogging | Communication | Journalism | Weblogs

Neville's new home

- a shel of my former self

Neville Hobson, my podcasting co-host, has completed his move from his blog of the last couple years—Nevon—and taken up residence at NevilleHobson.com. The new blog represents the earliest signs of a trend that I like. The first time I... ›››

Category: Blogging

February 21, 2006

Employee communications is the chicken, marketing is the egg

- a shel of my former self

In a preliminary post to the employee communications blog at the IABC Communication Commons, I reiterated my oft-stated view that employee communications is the most important communication effort a company undertakes. I have too often seen a dynamite marketing... ›››

Category: Blogging

Good pitch, bad pitch

- a shel of my former self

Todd Defren, principal of SHIFT Communications, has launched a new blog he’s calling The Good Pitch Blog. He tips his cap to Kevin Dugan and Richard Laermer and their Bad Pitch Blog, noting, “You are free to suggest that... ›››

Category: Blogging

Testing the Memetrackers

- Marketing Roadmaps

If tests of the memetrackers were really necessary, couldn't they have done something meaningful, like spread the word about a charity? Or told the world about an unsung hero? Something with meaning rather than nonsense words? Maybe I'm missing... ›››

Category: Blogging

BlogHer: More about the Room of Your Own Proposal

- Marketing Roadmaps

Elisa Camahort has posted the candidates for the Room of Your Own slots at BlogHer this July so I thought I'd give a little more detail about the Business Blogging session I've proposed. We've all gone to conferences where... ›››

Category: BlogHer | Blogging | Business Management | Marketing | blogher06

Is the Internet doomed?

- Mary's Blog

While some are obsessing about the “bloggers’ A-List” (Personally, I agree with Susan Getgood, “Bored now.”) – the freedom of the Internet is under attack; and, unlike the supposed attack on Christmas, this threat is very real. Broadband vendors... ›››

Category: Blogging | Ramblings | biz dev tips & traps | internet

February 20, 2006

Commons kick-off

- a shel of my former self

The Communication Commons is up and running. I’ve been working on the Commons with IABC staff—notably Publications VP Natasha Spring and CTO Chris Hall—for many months, and it’s gratifying to see something online. Now we just need to content... ›››

Category: Blogging | Measurement | internal

Missing the point of blogs

- Mary's Blog

Slate is talking Twilight of the Blogs. Apparently, “blogs have peaked.” Well, sorry, Slate but you’re wrong. Like many others who are constantly analyzing blogs, the on-line pub just flat misses the point (and power) of blogging. It’s not... ›››