Two moves by Hewlett-Packard into the blogging area. Well, as least guidance about blogging: HP US just published a guide to blogging for small- and medium-size businesses – Hewlett-Packard US | Small & Medium Business: technology tips | 101 Series: Blogging This is a very concise but quite a good guide to business blogging. And […]
Month: September 2004
Blogging for love not money
Bloggers at this summer’s US political conventions brought heightened visibility to blogging, but the money, for most bloggers, is still missing, according to an eWeek.com report. eWeek | Pro Bloggers Find Workload High, Return Slim Proof of Rule #12 in Simon World’s Everything you wanted to know about blogging but were afraid to ask.
The EU wins on trust
Latest state of public opinion about the European Union, reported by Straight Banana: 80% of EU citizens support the proposed European constitution (see my post last month for more info about the constitution). On trust and distrust: Regarding the EU, 41% of citizens trust it, 41% distrust it. Regarding national parliaments, 32% trust their national […]
Firefox preview release available
Mozilla has announced the prelease version of the Firefox browser: Greenlane or version 0.10. Firefox | Rediscover the web Perhaps this version may sort out all my little niggles about Firefox (see here and here). Final release version 1.0 is due out in early October.
DW qo’: wa’maH ben chen ‘ach wej Doy’
German broadcaster Deutsche Welle has launched a Klingon-language website. “With its new 31st language, Klingon, DW has expanded its multi-medial offerings beyond our solar system,” the broadcaster says (with a perfectly straight face). The Klingon-language website includes an introduction to Germany – “Germany is a country located in sector 001 of the planet Earth…” – […]
No messing about in China
China executes bank employees in fraud crackdown. Pretty extreme. There would definitely never have been an Enron or Worldcom fraud in China. CNN | China executes bank staff for fraud (Via Dvorak Uncensored.) Speaking about China, Loïc le Meur has some good tips on working around the Chinese restrictions/censorship on internet access if you want […]
RSS complements email marketing
There’s been quite a bit of discussion recently on RSS taking over the job that email traditionally has done in marketing. Rick Bruner made a good case last month for why you shouldn’t just switch to RSS with One (Percent) Reason Why Not to Switch From Email to RSS. His post generated some good comments. […]
No Friendster comment as fired employee speaks out
When the story of Joyce Parks (aka Troutgirl) and her being fired by Friendster for blogging blew up late last month, it became a popular posting topic by many business bloggers (including me: see post) as well as mainstream media. Last week, Joyce told her tale to Red Herring, going into some detail on her […]
The potential resurgence of internal communication
Internal communication in the US is giving media relations a run for its money as the sexy, exciting area of communications work. That’s what Amy Friedman believes as she articulates in a recent post in Positioning Online on the website of her company, Heyman Associates, a PR and communications executive search firm in New York. […]
Blog awards contest opens
The Best of the Blogs awards contest – the BOBS – promoted by German broadcaster Deutsche Welle opens today (see earlier post for details). One of the sponsors is TypePad, host for my blog. Good to see their ad on the BOBS site in 5 languages, not just English. The BOBS – Best of The […]
Blogrolling fatal error
I’ve been using Blogrolling for the past month as the aggregator for my blog links. Great service, no complaints. Today, though, I noticed that my blogroll wasn’t showing up in my blog, in the left column. Going to the Blogrolling website and trying to log in produced this fatal error message: Using a service like […]
Testing BlogJet
I’ve just installed an interesting application – BlogJet, a desktop Windows client for creating and managing posts offline. I’ll be trying this out in the coming days.
Testing ecto
Now testing not only BlogJet, but also ecto for Windows 1.0.8.
BlogJet and ecto quick first impressions
Both these offline blog publishing tools are very nice. Easy to install (ecto requires .NET Framework) and easy to set up for access to TypePad with the whole procedure basically automatic, nothing to configure: just add user name and login password and you’re set. I’ve created and posted one post with each so far but […]
More fuel for RSS and marketing debate
More articles and comments continue to appear about RSS and whether or when it could replace email as a primary marketing communication channel. I’ve also posted about this subject recently as I believe it’s a topic that is of distinct interest to all communicators, not only those concerned with email and marketing. Robin Good published […]
European business school blog as part of curriculum
A superb example of how a blog can have great value in an educational environment. The Euromed Business School in Marseilles, France, launched a blog last month as an intregral element of its knowledge management curriculum: This blog has a double purpose. It aims to contribute to the discussion and development of the academic field […]
The next wave in intranet evolution
Shiv Singh asks “What is in store for intranets next? As an intranet manager, what should you be worrying about? How can you create greater business value through your corporate intranet? Is your intranet going to be most impacted by a new technology, a new business idea or something else? Or is it all just […]
Create your own RSS webfeed
While RSS is still on my mind today, following my post a few hours ago about RSS and marketing, let me tell you about a free program that will enable you to create your own RSS webfeeds if you wanted to try out RSS yourself. Try out in the sense of creating as opposed to […]
PR policy for Microsoft blogger
Robert Scoble is undoubtedly the most high-profile and best-known Microsoft employee blogger – if not the best-known business-technology blogger, period – certainly in business and technology blogging circles and in the media. Robert’s blog Scobleizer and his link blog Scoble present reliable and trusted sources of rich information about what’s going on at Microsoft as well as […]
Things happening 19 Sept
Sunday morning, scanning my RSS webfeeds, some interesting things going on that caught my attention: Jan Baan, a name synonymous with one of the great ERP success stories of the 1990s (and one of the greatest business controversies in The Netherlands at the time of that success story’s demise in the early 00s), is back […]