An interesting angle on the story of the Delta Airlines employee blogger fired for posting photos of herself in uniform on her personal blog was reported in yesterday’s New York Times. The NY Times piece discusses the background to the case and the pending lawsuit the employee, Ellen Simonetti, has now filed against her employer […]
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The minister of silly walks online
John Cleese has a website! Lots of very silly things and the Church of Jesus Christ Capitalists. Very Pythonesque. An extension of the Cleese brand – it costs $50 to get access to "laughs, exclusive sketches, CleeseTV streaming videos, limited edition merch and meet and greet opps, access to the community, message boards, periodical chat […]
Half Life 2 arrives
Arrived in the mail yesterday – Half Life 2. Hope to get time to install it and give it a go this weekend.
More advice on corporate blogging
Yet more advice for communicators to pay attention to, from Michael Gartenberg at Jupiter Research: Blogs are rapidly becoming a mainstream technology, but there’s lot at stake when an individual or business begins blogging to the outside world. Some organizations have a culture that allows for blogging to take place with minimal disruption, and blogging […]
Gmail POP rolls out
In rollout now – the ability to access your Gmail account via desktop applications like Outlook. Google said it’s being rolled out selectively to all users over the next several weeks. More info in my earlier post.
British Library wifi hotspot
Visitors to the British Library in London will be able to get wireless internet access alongside the extensive information available in its famous reading rooms. Broadband wireless connectivity will be made available in the eleven reading rooms, the auditorium, café, restaurant, and outdoor piazza area. A study revealed that 86% of visitors to the Library […]
The problem with marketing
Is marketing as a function or profession in crisis? According to a UK survey carried out by The Marketing Society and McKinsey, it is. The Financial Times reports on the survey and on the negative views of marketing held in many boardrooms: Not everyone will care if marketing is in trouble. However, since successful marketing […]
Google advocates corporate blogs
Since implementing an internal blog about 18 months ago, Google has seen tremendous benefits from it and may in the future consider providing tools and expertise for this purpose to interested clients, according to a report in InfoWorld. Google deployed an internal blog for its employees shortly after acquiring the blogging service Blogger in early […]
Helping Firefox spread the word
If you’re a committed Firefox user and want to help spread the word more than just by including a graphic on your blog, here’s how you can. Things you can do include: Translate flyers Help translate the Mozilla Europe pages (see also Mozilla Europe’s wiki) Help translate applications from the Mozilla Foundation (this isn’t usually […]
Weblog Awards contest begins
The 2004 Weblog Awards contest is open for accepting nominations. Lots of categories, so something for just about everyone. For full details about the awards, the categories and the nomination procedures, see the nominations master post on the blog. I’m nominated in the Best European (Non-UK) Blog category. Ok, so I nominated my own blog – […]
PR fudging
Imagine this. A company has a financial hole that’s $92.9 million big. As a publicly-listed company, they have to report it and issue a public statement, which they do. So this is how one newspaper, The Washington Post, reported the news yesterday: McLean technology consulting company BearingPoint Inc. said yesterday that its chief financial officer, […]
Europeans give mixed marks for corporate reputation
The best-known firms in Germany, the United Kingdom and France are largely homegrown, reflecting Europe’s still-fragmented local markets, according to a survey published last week in the Wall Street Journal. The comprehensive survey of corporate reputations among companies in the European Union’s three largest countries – carried out by The Reputation Institute and Harris Interactive […]
The awesome experience of installing Half-Life 2
It took over an hour to install, requires you to be online the whole time, and includes some behind-the-scenes validating to ensure you have a legitimate copy. But without any doubt, it is worth the time and procedure – Half-Life 2 really is an exhilarating game. Only 45 minutes playing time so far – that’s […]
The influence of hits and stats
This blog passed a milestone during Sunday – more than 20,000 hits since I started it on TypePad towards the end of July, according to my TypePad statistics page. Here are the stats from Sunday afternoon: Am I pleased? Well, yes, in a sort of quiet-satisfaction way. What non-commercial blog author wouldn’t be after his […]
European business networking with OpenBC
Last week, a business friend introduced me to OpenBC, a sort of ‘European Linked In.’ From what I’ve seen of it so far, it looks like an excellent networking tool especially for European-based business people. I’ve been a member of US-focused Linked In since mid year and I can see that OpenBC has many similarities […]
Just say no, bloggers
Oh dear. Quite a bit of talk this past week about the notion put forward by some people in the US to form a committee on blogging ethics. There’d be a domain registered (blogethics.org) and the committee would work on keeping the blogosphere honest so helping prevent evil marketers spin their deceitful ways. Just hang […]
True value in IABC accreditation
I had an email last week from my professional association, IABC (International Association of Business Communicators), with an update on what’s happening with the association’s accreditation programme. A great deal, actually, which has given me cause to reflect on what a superb professional development opportunity accreditation is. The formal description of the programme says accreditation […]
Finding the search engine differentiator
I’m still in two minds about Google Desktop, as I mentioned earlier. But deciding on which search tool to use isn’t really the main issue now. It’s more to do with what the search tool can do and how easy it is to do it. I’ve been trying Blinkx for some while, especially the new […]
The copywriter who may now get it
Copywriter and direct marketer Bob Bly, who was vilified by many bloggers earlier this month for his claim that blogs are a complete waste of time, has now started his own blog. As a result of Bly’s claim, some interesting conversations developed on a number of blogs, including mine, in which Bly did participate – […]
How to get the real facts about business blogging
Is this a coincidence? Research company MindBranch, based in the US, has on its website a report produced by Janus Risk Management called Web Logs: Blog Threat Management. A few weeks ago, an Irish research company called Research and Markets published a report on blogging in the enterprise, also entitled Web Logs: Blog Threat Management […]